Master Patent Search with Espacenet (2025)
Master an important career skill using a free global patent search database!

Master Patent Search with Espacenet (2025) free download
Master an important career skill using a free global patent search database!
Espacenet is a global patent database managed by the European Patent Office. It boasts of an extensive 150 million patent documents across the world from over 100 countries. It has patent data from the 19th century upto the current week!
It is a tremendous repository to validate and develop your ideas. To conduct market, technology and industry analysis. What's more, it is free of charge and publicly available!
But Patent Search can be tricky. You need to be aware of important patent concepts to make good use of this amazing source of technology information. This course takes you step by step through the journey to master patent search. It covers:
Key Patent Concepts
Searching with Patent Numbers
Searching with Patent Classification
Keyword Search Fundamentals
Boolean Operators
Grouping
Proximity operators
Field Identifiers
Type I and Type II errors
Espacenet Advanced Search builder
Patent landscape and analytics with Espacenet
Prior art search exercises and case study
Prior-art search template
The course is completely hands-on! There are plenty of exercises and case studies to hammer home the concepts.
Course suitable for:
All students and faculty to validate and develop their inventions
All researchers and phd students to perform technology and industry analysis
IPR professionals to learn advanced patent search concepts
The course contains 7 professionally recorded videos. Hope you enjoy the journey of patent search :)