NEW!!! rapid e-learning contributions of the lectures. Check it out!:

• EPO documentation strategy, Marc Krier
• Non-patent literature, René Bourbon and Yves Verbandt
• IPC8 and ECLA - comprehensive search and retrieval, Heiko Wongel
• esp@cenet - freely accessible patent databases and professional sources, Paul Schwander
• Internet as a source of prior art and status of the results, Lucas Tsitsilonis and Dominique Andlauer
  

Presentation

• The EPO Search System, Annemie Nuyts
  [download PDF, 2.5 MB]
  

Workshops:

• G1 : Searching Japanese patent documents using FI and Fterm classification
  Christoph Wirner, Adam Cohen, Carola Fassnacht
  [download PDF, 1.9 MB]
  
  
• G2 : Oriental perspectives: essentials of patent documentation from the Far East
  Irene Schellner, Christine Kämmer
  [download PDF, 4 MB]
  
  
• G3 : Latest developments of Applied Research & Development
  Enrique Filloy Garcia
  [download PDF, 1.5 MB]
  
  
• G4 : Patent information and decision making
  Damien Czarik, Lisa McDonald
  [download PDF, 5 MB]
  
  
• G5 : Internet as a source of prior art and status of the results
  Lucas Tsitsilonis, Dominique Andlauer
  [download PDF, 4 MB]
  [download supplementary material PDF, 0.8 MB]
  
  
• S6 : Combinatorial chemistry and chemical libraries
  Pierre Held
  [download PDF, 1.3 MB]
  
  
• S7 : Advanced searching in the pharmaceutical field
  Titia Kanbier
  [download PDF, 2.8 MB]
  
  
• S8 : State of the art in the sector of functional and novel foods
  François Couzy
  [download PDF, 1.2 MB]
  
  
• S9 : Products and processes in the food industry
  Marc Heirbaut
  [download PDF, 0.7 MB]
  
  
• S10 : Biotechnology: documentation and tools
  Stéphane Nauche
  [download PDF, 1.3 MB]
  
  
• S11 : Genetic diagnostics
  Miguel Aguilera
  [download PDF, 2.8 MB]
  
  
• S12 : Hydrogen, fuel of the future?
  Wim van der Poel
  [download PDF, 5.3 MB]
  
  
• S13 : Chemical processes and devices; environmental engineering
  Rita Assogna, Oliver Beckmann
  [download PDF, 0.4 MB]
  
  
• S14 : Nanotechnology in biotech, chemistry and electrophysics
  Victor Veefkind
  [download PDF, 2.9 MB]
  
  
• S15 : Added value search strategies in mechanics
  Claus Mueller
  [download PDF, 0.5 MB]
  [download supplementary material PDF, 3.9 MB]
  
  
• S16 : Solid state lighting
  Johan van der Linden
  [download PDF, 2.6 MB]
  
  
• S17 : Human-computer interaction and Graphical User Interfaces
  Piero Bravo
  [download PDF, 0.5 MB]
  
  
• S18 : Computer programs: from design to runtime
  Eugenio Archontopoulos
  [download PDF, 1.7 MB]
  
  
• S19 : Data network applications: internetworking beyond all limits
  Carlos Canosa Aresté, Koen Lievens
  [download PDF, 1.6 MB]
  [download supplementary material PDF, 1.7 MB]