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How to Perform Prior Art Searches

When charting research and development activities, do you verify if the technology already exists and if it is owned by others? Did you know that you can detect existing similar developments or inventions by simply conducting a prior art search?

Learn to conduct patent searches step-by-step, through our one-day workshop. Discover effective search strategies, apply the use of syntax to increase efficiency, and learn how to identify relevant documents via publicly available databases.


Pre-requisites

You should possess knowledge of patents, components of patent specification, and understand information presented in search reports. You are also required to bring along a laptop or mobile devices to participate in the practical exercises designed for the workshop.

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  • SILE Public CPD Point(s): 6.5
  • Practice Area: Intellectual Property
  • Training Level: Advanced
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Learning Objectives

Patentability and prior art
Patent lifecycle and publication
Introduction to some major patent systems
Anatomy of a patent document
The Art of Searching
Search methodologies

Who Should Attend

Business Owners
Officers from public agencies
Researchers
Engineers
Lawyers
Patent agents
Officers from technology transfer offices who are keen to learn effective search strategies, apply the use of syntax to increase efficiency, and learn how to identify relevant documents via
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16 Jul
2024
Registration starts at 8.30am
09:00 am - 05:00 pm
IPOS International
IPOS International
Dr. Lu Liru, Alina
Patent Examiner

Dr Lu Liru has years of experience in patent search and examination in the general field of InfoCommunications. She has rich experience in commercial searches, such as invalidity search and novelty search. She also serves as a mentor and trainer for new examiners.

Before joining IPOS International, she held the position of Senior Algorithm Engineer at Huawei Technologies and served as a Research Scientist at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan. She was actively involved in IEEE Standardization activities in 802.11, 802.15, and 802.16 working groups and task groups, and she is an inventor of four JP patents. Additionally, she served as an advisor to the IEEE Library Advisory Council from 2016-2017 and as the Chairperson of IEEE Women in Engineering Singapore from 2017 to 2018. Furthermore, she has contributed as a session chair for several renowned conferences in past years.

She holds a B.E. (Hons.) degree in electrical and communications engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China; a Ph.D. degree in communications engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; and a Master of IP and Innovation Management (IP Management) from Singapore University of Social Sciences.

Course Fee

S$523.20 per pax (incl. 9% GST)

SILE Accreditation
  • This programme is accreditated by the Singapore Institute of Legal Education (SILE).

SILE Attendance Policy
  • Participants who wish to obtain CPD Points are reminded that they must comply strictly with the Attendance Policy set out in the CPD Guidelines. For this activity, this includes signing in on arrival and signing out at the conclusion of the activity in the manner required by the organiser, and not being absent from the entire activity for more than 15 minutes. Participants who do not comply with the Attendance Policy will not be able to obtain CPD Points for attending the activity. Please refer to http://www.sileCPDcentre.sg for more information.

SkillsFuture Credit
  • All Singaporeans aged 25 years and above may use their SkillsFuture Credits to pay for or offset the course fees.

  • If you are claiming your SkillsFuture Credits for this course, please inform us via email. Click here to log in with your SingPass to make your SkillsFuture Credits claim. The user guide can be found here or call the SkillsFuture Hotline at 6883 5885 for more information on SkillsFuture Credit.

NTUC UTAP Support

NTUC members enjoy 50% unfunded course fee support for up to $250 each year (or up to $500 for NTUC members aged 40 years old and above) when you sign up for courses supported under UTAP (Union Training Assistance Programme). Please visit e2i’s website to find out more.

 

Members Eligibility for UTAP Application

Please note that members are required to fulfil the following conditions to be eligible for UTAP reimbursement:

1.              Paid-up NTUC membership before course commenced, throughout whole course duration and at the point of claim

2.              Course by training provider must be supported under UTAP, and training must commence within the supported period

3.              Course must not be fully funded through company sponsorship or other types of funding

4.              You must achieve a minimum of 75% attendance for each application and sat for all prescribed examination(s), if any

5.              UTAP application must be submitted within 6 months after course completion

For more information on UTAP application, please call the NTUC Membership hotline at 6213 8008 or visit http://skillsupgrade.ntuc.org.sg/.

 

Terms and Conditions

For Private Sector Participants

•   Full payment of course fees must be made to IPOS International upon course registration.

•   IPOS International reserves the right to deny admission to participants who have not made payment before course commencement.

•   Any request for withdrawal or refund is subject to approval by IPOS International’s management.

•   Request for substitution has to be made in writing via email at least 3 days before start of course date and is subject to acceptance by IPOS International.

•   IPOS International reserves the right to cancel or postpone any programme due to unforeseen circumstances.  A full refund will be given to registrants if the course is cancelled by IPOS International.

•   IPOS International reserves the right to make any changes to the programme.

 

For Public Sector Participants

•   Course fees are payable upon course registration. Payment should be processed expediently.

•   Any request for withdrawal or refund is subject to approval by IPOS International’s management.

•   Request for substitution has to be made in writing via email at least 3 days before start of course date and is subject to acceptance by IPOS International.

•   IPOS International reserves the right to cancel or postpone any programme due to unforeseen circumstances.  A full refund will be given to registrants if the course is cancelled by IPOS International.

•   IPOS International reserves the right to make changes to the programme.

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