Patent Information Conference 2009, Biarritz, France
The event, organised by the European Patent Office (EPO) in cooperation with the French Patent Office (INPI), will be composed of plenary, discussion and training sessions, revolving around issues related to patenting.
More specifically, sessions will be dedicated to some of the following issues:
- 'Quality at the front end - a burden or a duty for applicants and the EPO?'
- 'What is the EPO's role in patent mapping and visualisation?'
- 'What is the best way forward for the EPO's on-line patent information products?'
- 'How can we move from patent information to patent intelligence?'
- 'How will access to traditional knowledge influence the outcome of patent searches?'
- 'Patent registers in Europe - how can we improve interoperability?'For further information, please visit:
http://www.epo.org/about-us/events/pi-conference.html(opens in new window)