Course: EPO Patent information tools

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Tutorials: Patent information tools
Introductory resources
The following e-learning tools have been created to help you find your way around patent information products and services the EPO makes available to the public.
- IP tools - Put your business idea in context
  
  Ideas alone are not always enough to make a successful breakthrough into the business world. Using intellectual property tools, users can find relevant legal, technical and commercial information to help them put their business idea in context.
- Patent information tour URL
  Patent information is the name we give to the technical information you find in patent documents, plus legal and business-relevant information about them.This e-learning module has been created to help you learn about patent information and its uses.
- Assistant: European Patent Register URL
  The European Patent Register contains all the publicly available information on European patent applications as they pass through the grant procedure, including oppositions, patent attorney/EPO correspondence and more. To guide you through the Register and to help you learn how to retrieve legal and procedural data, we have created this e-learning tool.
- Introduction to the Global Patent Index (GPI) URL
  GPI is a powerful tool that enables you to perform detailed searches in the EPO's worldwide bibliographic, legal event and full-text data sets.
- Specific features
  The following videos present and explain some specific features of various highly useful tools.
- Federated Register Streaming
- OPS - Open Patent Services Streaming
- CCD - Common Citation Document (Espacenet) Streaming
- Register Alert Streaming
- Global Dossier Streaming
- EP Bulletin search Streaming
- European Patent Register Streaming
- GPI - Global Patent Index Streaming
- Basic documentation
  Click on the links to access:
  CCD Handbook (EN)
  OPS Reference Guide (EN)
  Pocket Guide: European Patent Register (EN, FR, DE)
  Pocket Guide: New Espacenet (EN, FR, DE)
  Pocket Guide: Classic Espacenet (EN, FR, DE)
  Resource Book: European Patent Register (EN, FR, DE)
  Resource Book: Classic Espacenet (EN)
  User manual: EP Bulletin search (EN)
  User manual: Global Patent Index (EN)
Virtual classrooms on patent information
Selected recordings
In the following, you will find a compilation of recordings of recent virtual classrooms on the latest developments, (new) features etc. of the different patent information tools offered by the EPO.