9:45 – 10:15

Registration, Welcome with Coffee &Tea

10:15 – 11:30

What's new on STN classic?
Get up-to-date on the latest news for STN classic. Learn what’s new, including:

• Extended Markush backfile coverage in MARPAT^®
• Biomedical database enhancements
• Derwent World Patents Index^® (DWPI^SM) enhancements
• Calculated expiration dates and citations in INPADOC
• Full-text patent database updates
• Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) on STN

11:30 – 11:45

Break

11:45 – 12:30

Preview of Version One of new STN
Bring yourself up-to-date on the upcoming release of Version One of new STN! The new platform is designed to provide a modern user experience while retaining the core values of STN relied upon by patent offices and IP professionals worldwide. New STN is being developed in versions, and Version One focuses on the core search and retrieval functionality andmost essential content, combining the complete CAS REGISTRY, CAplus^SM,Derwent World Patents Index^® (DWPI^SM) and the Derwent Chemistry Resource (DCR) databases.
Learn about:

• Project-oriented workflow
• Combined text and structure queries
• Simultaneous query and results interaction
• Real-time analysis of results
• Virtually no system limits

12:30 – 13:15

Lunch

13:15 – 14:00

Tools and Techniques for handling large answer sets on STN
This presentation will showcase the tools and techniques that can be used on STN to allow a searcher to refine large answer sets. New and experienced searchers are often required to conduct fairly broad searches but it is usually unrealistic to deal with the large number of answers that are frequently retrieved. We will look at features such as proximity operators, relevance ranking, use of controlled terminology, classification codes and CAS Roles that can help a searcher refine their search to recall relevant results. This presentation will cover techniques that can be used in many different search disciplines and across a number of STN databases.

14:00 – 14:15

Tips from the Helpdesk

14:15 – 14:30

Break

14:30 – 15:20

STN Current Awareness Update
Businesses need to stay up-to-date on research trends, competitors, inventors, patents and legal status information. STN has added flexible new features such as standard setup, new package delivery options and RSS delivery of results to make it easy to keep up-to-date on the latest information.
Learn about:

• New setup and delivery options for automatic alerts
• Multifile alerts and package alerts
• Choosing the right update code
• Opportunities with patent portfolio management

15:20 – 15:30

Q&A and wrap-up