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: Current Espacenet URL
  Espacenet offers free access to more than 120 million patent documents worldwide, containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today. To guide you through Espacenet and to help you learn how to use this database, we have created an interactive e-learning tool.
- 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 Espacenet, the European Patent Register and the Global Patent Index (GPI).
- 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
- 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)
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.