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Recorded e-Seminars

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    Searching for Uncommon Sequences on STN

    Searching for sequences which incorporate uncommon amino acids or nucleotides can be a challenge for even the most experienced searchers.
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    Search Strategies at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology: Immunoconjugates

    The rapid convergence of the traditionally defined disciplines of chemistry and biology and the content resources in these areas create challenges and opportunities for many types of searches.
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    Searching CRISPR Target Sequences in DGENE on classic STN

    STN's sequence databases allow for both comprehensive and precise searching for published sequences, and sequence search strategies can be applied to even cutting-edge techniques and processes.
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    Sources and Techniques for Searching Alloys on classic STN

    This e-Seminar highlights the major sources of alloy information on STN and exemplify techniques to retrieve highly relevant results on classic STN.
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    Legal Status Information on INPADOC

    The International Patent Documentation file (INPADOC) is a global collection of bibliographic and legal status information.
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    Numeric Property Searching in STNext – Case Studies from DWPI

    The unique Numeric Property Search (NPS) feature offers exact value and range search options for 59 physical and chemical properties, for example ENERGY (/ENE) or PRESSURE (/PRES), indexed from 1,800 original units.
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    Engineering & Material Science Searching on STN

    STN offers a great variety of databases in the fields of Engineering and Material Sciences.
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    The CPC as a Search Tool - Mind the Gap(s)

    The Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) has been established as a high precision search tool for accessing world-wide patent literature.
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    Automating Searches with STN: Part 2 - Introduction to Basic Scripting

    Scripts allow you to automate searches by encoding the full STN command language, assigning variables and allowing for user prompts.
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    From Start to Finish - Using a Multi-file Approach for Chemical Queries and Creating Virtual Records

    A case study demonstrates many tips and tricks for solving a search question from the chemical area using multiple sources (REGISTRY/CAplus, DCR/DWPI, and the full-text patent databases.)
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    I Didn't Know You Had That! - Improving Your Search Results with Lesser Known Data in STN Databases

    We show how to improve your searching by using Digital Object Identifiers, Electronic Publication Dates, Numeric Property Values, Patent Expiration Dates, and precision searching of term fragments within words.
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    The Derwent Markush Resource (aka DWPIM) on STNext

    In this e-Seminar you learn about the content and features of the Derwent Markush Resource database on the STNext platform.
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    In-depth Structure Searching in DWPIM on STNext - Best Practices

    This e-Seminar will discuss in-depth structure search strategies, including node types, and attributes for nodes and bonds. This session will also explain the relationship between the STN generic nodes and the Derwent superatoms.
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    Biosequence Searching on STN - Comprehensive and Precise

    STN offers multiple sequence databases, with unsurpassed content covering nucleotide and amino acid sequences from patents and scientific literature around the world.
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    Automating Searches with STN: Part 3 - Monitoring a Large Number of Structures or Patent Numbers

    The scripting feature is a powerful search tool unique to STN which is mainly used by experts to automate the STN retrieval.
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    Citations: Stepping Stones in your Search

    STN offers many sources of citation information that increase your search efficiency. This e-seminar helps you to discover the wealth of citation information in the various databases on STN,
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    DWPIM on STNext: Introduction and New Functionality

    In this e-Seminar you learn about the content and features of the Derwent Markush Resource database on the STNext platform.
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    Searching Value-Added Derwent Polymer Indexing in DWPI on STNext

    Polymer searching is a uniquely challenging prospect, given all of the various ways polymers can be described in patents and the frequent need to also search for relevant properties and applications.
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    Multifile Structure Searching on STNext Why is it Important? How is it Done?

    This session explains why various indexing policies, document coverage and other differences require searches in the Derwent Chemistry Resource and Derwent Markush Resource databases, plus the CAS REGISTRY and MARPAT databases for comprehensiveness.
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    Get the Best Out of Derwent Markush Resource (DWPIM) on STNext

    In this e-Seminar we address important key aspects and characteristics of DWPIM on STNext, including matching, bond values and XX in rings. Recent developments, best practice and potential pitfalls are also discussed.
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    The Derwent World Patents Index Database on STN – An Overview of the Value-Added Information and Features (Part 1)

    The Derwent World Patents Index (aka DWPI on STN) is a world-class value-added patent family database, produced by Clarivate Analytics. The database includes many unique data points with specific search options on STN,
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    Get First Insights into STN

    STN, an online database service, integrates the world‘s largest and most important value-added databases for sci-tech and patent information on one platform.
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    Searching Surfactants and Detergents on STN

    This session will explore how surfactants are covered in the CAS and Derwent suite of databases. The rules for indexing of individual surfactant classes in these databases will be discussed on the basis of examples.
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    Introduction to the Derwent World Patents Index on STNext

    Discover the entry point to global patent information on STNext! Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) is the world’s most comprehensive value-added database of international patent information covering all aspects of science and technology.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Getting a First Overview of STN Search Results - Postings and their Settings

    Learn more about postings of a standard keywordsearch and postings in a multi-file environment.
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    Automating Searches with STNext: Introductory Session

    Scripts allow you to automate searches by encoding the full STN command language, assigning variables and allowing for user prompts.
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    Quick start with STNext

    We begin this e-seminar with an online tour through STNext: from file management, to your settings, the various tabs and as well the STNext structure editor.
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    Added Value in Full-text Patent Files

    STN has a large collection of first-level, full-text patent databases in addition to our familiar value-added indexed files. This e-seminar covers the benefits of using these full-text databases to make your searches more comprehensive.
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    Structure Searching in the Derwent Chemistry Resource (DCR) – An Easy Recipe to Get Started

    In this e-Seminar you learn about the content and features of the Derwent Chemistry Resource (DCR), the part of the Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) that covers specific chemical substances incl. a workflow for structure searching in DCR & CAS Registry.
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    CAS Formulations - Overview and Practical Search Strategies

    CAS Formulations on STNext provides a deeper indexing of active and inactive compounds found in formulations.
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    Migrating to STNext - Essential Features and Functionalities

    This e-seminar supports your transition to STNext, and provides an overview of the interface and features. Learn how STNext improves searching while supporting the highly valued functionality of classic STN.
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    Multi-Database Structure Searching on STNext

    This session explores the benefits of multi-database structure searching on STNext. We start with a general introduction of the four structure databases Derwent Chemistry Resource (DCR), Derwent Markush Resource (DWPIM), CAS REGISTRY and MARPAT.
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    The STNext Structure Editor

    This e-Seminar focus on structure searching on STNext. The STN structure editor is explained in detail, including how to draw a structure using specific atoms and/or rings, shortcuts, variables, and STN generic nodes.
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    New Team Members for Numeric Property Searching on STNext – the USPAT databases

    The numeric property search (NPS) feature has been added to the patent databases USPATFULL and USPAT2, allowing STNext users to easily retrieve exact values or ranges for 60 physico-chemical properties in the US patents’ full-text.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: W, 5A, L, S or P? – Proximity Operators for Precise Retrieval

    A general overview about the proximity operators and some ideas on how to use them for specific questions.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Identify the best databases for your search topic – tips around the INDEX command

    The INDEX command is used to access STNindex and to identify the files to be scanned. STNindex is used to determine which databases contain information on a search topic before entering those databases.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Technology Focus, Use, Advantage, etc – Benefit from the Highly Structured Derwent Abstract

    Learn more about key value of the Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI).
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Command Window – a Simple but Powerful Feature

    A few tips and tricks on how to use the command window.
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    Structure Searching on STNext – The Final Episode

    This session covers in more detail some concepts discussed in the previous sessions on Multi-database Structure Searching on STNext and The STNext Structure Editor, as well as answering questions that have been received.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Using the Patent Family Manager in STNext to Increase Efficiency in Patent Searches

    The broad INPADOC patent family comprises all patent publications directly or indirectly linked via priority number(s). CAplus and Derwent World Patents Index select the basic patent for indexing.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Customize your STNext Experience with SET Commands

    SET commands have impact on various parts of your online session. We will look at some of the more popular and useful SET commands in each of these parts.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: STN Clusters - How to find what you are looking for when you don't know where to look

    STN Clusters are a group of databases, that were put together if they cover the same or similar subject area.
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    Increase the Relevance and Insight of your STNext Search Results with the Analyze Command

    STNext offers two ways to use the ANALYZE (ANA) function: via a graphical user interface or the command line. In this e-seminar we discuss the options offered by the graphical user interface, including data export to Excel.
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    Control Substitution and Ring Fusion in STNext Structure Searches

    Setting up structure queries for efficient Substructure and Closed Substructure Searches are discussed and exemplified in this STNext e-Seminar.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Don’t be afraid of Markush – Tips from the FIZ Search Service

    STN Coffee Lecture about markush structures: what they are, why they are used in patents, and where to search Markush structures.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: NOT in Detail – How to Use the NOT Operator in Keyword Searches

    The NOT operator is very helpful in developing search strategies: NOT subtracts one answer set from another answer set, allowing efficient analysis of the changes made to a query.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Automate your Search - The Potential of STN Scripts Demonstrated by some Selected Examples

    Get a short explanation of STN Scripting and see some use cases as well as a live script in STNext.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Controlled Terms (CT) in the Various Databases – How to Explore and how to Use

    A general introduction into thesauri on STNext.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Getting to Know your Competitor - Searching Licensing and Company-related Information on STNext

    Quick demonstration how to find information beyond research and development activities of a certain company, which of course can be tracked down in the respective STN patent databases.
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    Virtuelles STN User Meeting 2020

    Präsentationen zu Neuigkeiten in STNext, CAS Formulations, Numeric Property Search und neuen Recherchemöglichkeiten in den CAplus Patentansprüchen.
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    INPADOC on STNext Reloaded - Enhanced Content, Additional Functionality

    INPADOC on STN is based on the patent bibliographic and legal status data from the European Patent Office. In addition, FIZ Karlsruhe's Patent Editorial adds value with intellectual corrections and quality assurance.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: How much Glyphosate Contains my Beer? – Case Studies from the Analytical Abstracts Database on STNext

    Quick demonstration how to retrieve records describing analytical studies for any given substance or substance class in the Analytical Abstracts Database on STN.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Get to Know the Family – Information from the Derwent Bibliography

    STN Coffee Lecture about family information in the Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI).
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Rethink your Structure - Tips from the FIZ Search Service

    STN Coffee Lecture about a typical structure search question.
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    Claim Text on STNext

    Claim text has been added to CAplus, now allowing STNext users to search and display claims in both value-added databases CAplus and Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) as well as in the full text databases.
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    Online Thesauri and the CA Lexicon

    Multiple databases on STNext provide online thesauri for one or more search fields including indexing terms. The CA Lexicon is the thesaurus for the Controlled Terminology (CT) field for the CAplus database.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Keeping Baby's Bottom Dry - A Quick Guide to Polymer Searching on STN

    A brief introduction into the basic concepts of polymer searching on STNext.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Getting to Know the Family with FFAM - The INPADOC Display Format Explained

    STN Coffee Lecture about the the overall content of Inpadoc on STN and some ideas to answer questions regarding patent families.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: TRANSFER Command on STNext - Tips and Tricks

    A few tips and tricks on using the TRANSFER-command on STNext.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: The Value of Intellectual Substance Indexing – A Comparative Approach

    Use one single query structure for all structure files. Each file has unique content!
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Non-Patent-Literature: A Hidden Treasure - Tips from the FIZ Search Service

    A brief introdution into non-patent literature including some useful database features and search options on STN.
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    New REAXYSFILE Databases on STNext

    The new databases ReaxysFileSub and ReaxysFileBib on STNext, including up-to-date substance and bibliographic info, expand the already impressive coverage of chemical substances from publications worldwide on the platform.
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    A Sticky Topic - Polymer Searching on STNext

    Polymer searching is a uniquely challenging prospect, given all of the various ways polymers can be described in patents and the frequent need to also search for relevant properties and applications.
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    Chemical Information à la Carte – the STNext Multi-file Menu now Refined with ReaxysFileSub

    STNext combines databases from CAS, Clarivate and Elsevier, the world's leading providers of chemical information, on a single platform, making it the most comprehensive source for searching high-quality chemical information.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Five Good Reasons to Switch to STNext

    STNext STNext: the premier single source for searching the world's disclosed scientific and technical research
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    The Kinetics of Searching Catalysts on STNext

    Catalysts play a vital role in lowering activation energies for chemical reactions. This webinar provides further insights in the indexing and registration policies in CAS and Derwent files for some of the most common types of catalysts.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Time for Spring Cleaning – Working with Transcripts on STNext

    A few tips and tricks on working with transcripts on STNext.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Meet the Database FSTA - Food Science and Technology Abstracts

    The Food Science and Technology Abstracts database provides worldwide coverage of all health, scientific and technological aspects of the processing and manufacture of human and pet food and beverage products.
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    STN Patent Forum - PIUG

    Get the latest news on STN and development of various databases on the STNext platform as well as more information about a Freedom to Operate (FTO) search, which is one of the fundamental approaches that all Intellectual Property searchers must master.
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    Stay Up to Date with Alerts in STNext

    Automated alerts are a great tool to receive regular updates on the most recent publications in a specific scientific or technological area without the need to actually run the search again in STNext. In this respect, STNext offers various alerting...
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Who Wrote That? Searching for Authors and Companies on STNext

    A few tips and tricks on how to search for author names and company names more efficiently on STNext.
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    What's New on STNext?

    Get the latest news on STN and development of various databases on the STNext platform including reorganization of the Derwent databases on STNext.
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    Using the Derwent Manual Codes on STNext

    The Derwent Manual Codes are a powerful tool to be used for subject searching in the Derwent World Patents Index database.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Optimizing STN Settings for Custom Search Environment

    STNext includes many settings that searchers can use to customize their search environment and workflow.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Optimizing STN Settings for Custom Result Displays

    Changing the ways that search results are displayed can improve workflow efficiency, increase readability of search results, and provide relevant information in concise formats.
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    Searching Inorganics Part 1 – Alloys

    Searching inorganic substances requires a completely different skill set than searching organic compounds. In this first installment on searching inorganic substances, we take a look at searching alloys.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Meet the Database: CABA - CAB Abstracts Database

    The CAB Abstracts database covers worldwide literature from all areas of agriculture and related sciences including biotechnology, forestry, and veterinary medicine.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Working with Saved Answer Sets, Queries and Lists on STNext

    Information generated during a STNext online session can be retained for later use or reuse by applying the SAVE command.
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    Antibody Drug Conjugates - Ferrying a Drug into a Tumor Cell Using Specific Immunoconjugates

    Immunoconjuagtes, also known as antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), are an emerging class of biopharmaceutical drugs designed for targeted cancer therapy.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Meet the Database - NTIS

    The National Technical Information Service database NTIS is the world’s most comprehensive collection of U.S.-sponsored research. This database contains unique scientific research and information compared to other databases on the platform.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Hidden Treasures of your Session History

    The session history within STNext offers much more than only showing the result counts for each search. This Coffee Lecture will reveal some of these hidden treasures.
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    Virtual STN User Meeting 2021 France

    Get the latest news on STNext, the new structure of DWPI, non-patent literature, CAS Scientific Patent Explorer and CAS Biosequences.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: HELP! – Retrieve online assistance whenever needed with the HELP command

    With HELP you can ask the system for information regarding the database content, pricing structure, searchable fields, display formats, use of a command, etc. in a specific database.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: AI-based prior art technology in STNext

    CAS has developed an AI-based prior art search technology which makes use of the controlled terminology and substance indexing as well as IPC classifications of an initial patent publication that serves as the starting point.
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    Virtuelles STN User Meeting 2021 in deutscher Sprache

    Präsentationen zu Neuigkeiten in STNext, der neuen Struktur des Derwent World Patents Index, CAS Scientific Patent Explorer, CAS Biosequences, Rechtsstandsüberwachung mit FIZ PatMon und Chemscape
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    Getting started with STNext - A guided on-line tour to ease your transition

    This e-seminar supports your transition to STNext, and provides an overview of the interface as well as the essential features and functionalities.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Understanding Derwent’s DCRs, DCNs and DRNs

    The Derwent indexing system has had different numbering systems for substance records over the years.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Legal Status categories in INPADOC databases on STNext

    FIZ Karlsruhe creates value-add categories for legal status events and adds them to the INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB databases
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    The Evolution of STNext® – A Year in Review

    There have been a large number of developments around STNext in 2021.
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    STNext: Tips and Tricks

    This e-Seminar will answer questions that have been asked of the CAS and FIZ helpdesks, along with little-known tricks that will help improve your interaction with the STNext platform.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Derwent fragmentation codes - Part 2: Adding Derwent non-structural fragmentation codes to your DWPI search strategy

    This coffee lecture will explain the various non-structural codes, how to find them and how to add them to your search strategy.
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    Reload of GENESEQ, USGENE & PATGENE: Enhanced GENESEQ (aka DGENE), USGENE and PATGENE (aka PCTGEN) on STNext®

    The sequence searchable databases GENESEQ, USGENE and PATGENE have been reloaded on STNext. This e-Seminar will discuss the improvements to the databases as a result of these reloads, including incorporating the latest BLAST and GETSIM algorithms, additio
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    STN Coffee Lecture: DEAD or ALIVE – Searching Legal Status Indicators in STNext®

    Due to the plethora of legal status information and potential changes that a patent may undergo during its lifetime the analysis if a patent is still in force can become a major dread.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: LSC2 vs. LSEC – Legal Event Categories in the INPADOC databases

    This brief session will cover the differences between these two fields (LSC2 vs. LSEC )so that searchers can use both with confidence.
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    Enriching your Multi-file Patent Searches - Additional Value by Using STN Fulltext Databases

    This session will describe the full-text data and special features available to STNext searchers - including the new RUFULL file
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    DWPI reloaded – Get fit for using the Derwent databases DWPI, DCR and DPCI after the reimplementation on STNext®

    The new implementation offers several enhanced search and display options, content as well as workflow enhancements, such as the integration of the Derwent Patent Citation Index (DPCI) into DWPI.
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    An advanced overview on the reloaded Derwent databases DWPI, DCR and DPCI

    The Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI) has been reloaded on STN.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Numeric Property Searching on STNext®

    This coffee lecture will briefly introduce this powerful STN search tool, providing a variety of practical search examples to demonstrate its use.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Get Organized in STNext® – All About “My Files”

    Structures, biosequences, scripts, and transcripts each can be categorized, organized, renamed, and easily previewed and retrieved to make your search sessions more efficient.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Benefit from select display formats in the INPADOC databases

    This session will focus on select formats available in these files and discuss the scenarios where each of those display format might be preferred.
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    Simplify Searching with Ready-to-Use Scripts on STNext®

    Join us in this webinar - you want to learn more about the powerful scripting features in STNext and how they might help you to simplify your searches.
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    STNext Coffee Lecture: Meet the Databases – IFI Databases IFIALL and IFICLS

    This coffee lecture will focus on IFIALL and IFICLS.
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    STNext Coffee Lecture: Claims in CAplus

    With the addition of English full text claims text for more patent authorities in CAplus there are more use cases where combinations of substance information and claims text can be combined to retrieve relevant results.
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    Multi-File Structure Searching

    This session will cover best practices for conducting structure-to-bibliographic searches in our most-used databases – Derwent Chemistry Resource/Derwent World Patents Index, REGISTRY/CAplus, and ReaxysfileSub/ReaxysfileBib.
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    STNext Coffee Lecture: Working with citations - Why use citations?

    This coffee lecture will focus on the citation information contained in the Derwent World Patents Index database.
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    STNext Coffee Lecture: Simplify Structure Monitoring on STNext®

    Join us in this short coffee lecture to get an overview on the SMARTracker functionality as well as to get an idea about how scripts might facilitate your structure monitoring needs.
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    Creating Impactful Reports using CAS STNext® and BizInt Smart Charts

    This e-Seminar will review the options CAS STNext offers for creating reports, including recent enhancements.
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    STNext® Coffee Lecture: Meet the database - CASREACT

    Get to know CASREACT, the principal chemical reaction database on STNext®.
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    STNext® Coffee Lecture: Working with citations - NPL citations

    This session will take a use case for finding citations of a journal article in both patent and non-patent literature references using a larger variety of databases on STNext®
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    STNext® Coffee Lecture: Capture Location of a substance in the claims (PPAK)

    Join this coffee lecture to see the functionality in action for customers who have added PatentPak® to their GVP or STN IP Protection Suit contracts.
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    STNext® Coffee Lecture: STNext® to SciFindern® link

    STNext® customers who also have access to CAS SciFindern® will now be able to send an STNext® answer set from CAplus, Medline® or Registry to CAS SciFindern®.
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    STN e-Seminar: What`s new on STNext®?

    This session will cover the latest database improvements and developments on STNext®, including content updates and new functionality.
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    STN E-Seminar: Searching the Derwent enhanced polymer indexing system on CAS STNext®

    Polymers can be described in many different ways in patent literature – from structure drawings, to specific polymer names, starting materials, etc.
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    CAS STNext® e-Seminar: Patent Ownership

    In this coffee lecture we will outline some of the search strategies to find the original and current (or ultimate) owners of patents.
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: Same functionality, more flexibility: The new CAS STNext® structure editor

    This coffee lecture will highlight new features, as well as the settings for downloading a transcript when logging off of STNext®
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: New transcript options on CAS STNext®

    This coffee lecture is geared for all STNext users, from the novice to the very experienced searcher.
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: Patent Monitoring made easy with FIZ PatMon

    Efficient monitoring of global legal protection of competitor and own patents is crucial for successful patent portfolio management
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    Understanding Match Levels in Structure Drawing on STNext®

    STNext® has multiple structure searchable databases, including CAS’s MARPAT and Derwent’s DWPIM databases. When running a structure search in these databases, the attributes associated with the various nodes in the drawn structure become critically import
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: National patent office links now available on CAS STNext®!

    This coffee lecture will discuss the various offices links that are available, how to access these links, and what to expect when accessing these links.
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: Getting started with citation searching in Derwent World Patents IndexTM (DWPI)

    This coffee lecture provides useful tips how to familiarize with citation searching in DWPI and learn essential retrieval capabilities.
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: 2022 in Review – CAS STNext® enhancements

    This presentation will cover some of our most-used and most popular enhancements this year, including examples of how to use them.
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    CAS STNext®: Tips and Tricks from the Customer Center

    We end the CAS STNext e-Seminar program of 2022 with a compilation of tips and tricks. We look at search strategies including numeric property search and structure search questions that have been asked of the CAS and FIZ helpdesks. This e-Seminar will be
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    Enhancements in CAS STNext® - a detailed annual review

    This e-seminar will present an in-depth review of major STNext® interface and content enhancements over the last year.
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    CAS STNext Coffee Lecture: ICV - Interactive Claim Viewer

    This session will highlight the features of the ICV and show examples of how searchers can incorporate this new tool into their IP searching workflow.
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    Citation Information in CAS STNext®

    This session covers useful techniques and provides information about this type of data in the Derwent World Patents IndexTM, CAplusSM, and other relevant databases on CAS STNext®
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: Patent Office Links

    In this coffee lecture you will learn how to locate the links to national patent registers, which provide an additional level of detail to the legal status that is available in Inpadoc.
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: Hidden links in patent databases on CAS STNext®

    The patent databases on CAS STNext® contain links to additional pertinent patent information, including links to national registers and global dossiers, and access to legal status and extended patent family information.
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    CAS STNext® e-Seminar: Nameste: Hello to Indian Patent Information on CAS STNext®

    This webinar takes a closer look at the publications from the Indian patent office, coordinating data coming from 4 regional offices in India.
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: Derwent fragmentation codes - Part 1: The Derwent fragmentation generator comes to CAS STNext®!

    The Derwent fragmentation generator has been added to the STNext platform.
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Meet the Database: TEMA - Technology and Management Multi-disciplinary Database on STNext

    TEMA contains citations to German and international literature in the areas of mechanical engineering and plant construction, electrical engineering and electronics, materials, information technology, textile technology, medical technology, management...
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    STN Coffee Lecture: Understanding the SET AUDIT Command on STNext

    STN Coffee Lecture on how the AUDIT function works and how it can be used.
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: Creating reports in CAS STNext®

    This coffee lecture will demonstrate how to create a Word document, an Excel spreadsheet or a BizInt Smart Chart report from a transcript, and how to tailor the report to your specific needs.
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: Use cases for scripts in CAS STNext®

    STN® scripting is a programming language used to write a repeatable and adaptable series of commands and statements that run automatically once the script is activated.
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    CAS STNext® e-Seminar: The best of both indexing worlds - CAplus / DWPI

    This e-Seminar will highlight select value-added indexing features for both the CAplus and Derwent World Patents Index (aka DWPI) databases, along with their respective companion substance files
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: Meet the database - TWFULL

    Get to know the TWFULL database on CAS STNext®.
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: Meet the databases - triple indexing in EMBASE

    Embase offers the unique opportunity to allow a searcher to search for triple links between selected relationships of drugs, diseases and medical devices along with specific outcomes defined by the embase subheadings.
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    Scripts - A dive to explore CAS STNext's programming language

    Let's go on a little journey to discover the most relevant aspects of the CAS STNext® script language.
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    CAS STNext® e-Seminar: Searching for incompletely defined substances

    Authors can describe chemical substances without the necessary level of detail to make them unique. Without guessing the missing pieces, CAS creates another CAS Registry Number for incompletely defined substances.
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: Beyond the thesaurus system limit

    This coffee lecture describes a case where a search could still get beyond this specific limit.
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    CAS STNext e-Seminar: Searching for Japanese patent information on CAS STNext®

    Many databases on the CAS STNext® platform have Japanese patent information. This e-seminar will identify those databases and the specific Japanese patent coverage within those databases.
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: Adjust substance search precision with element information in CAS REGISTRY®

    In this CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture we will present use cases and introduce related techniques to search numbers of elements as well as specific elements occurring in single and multi-component substances.
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: Molecular Formula Searching in the Derwent Chemistry Resource (DCR) Database on CAS STNext®

    This coffee lecture discusses the molecular formula information, and how to search that field to improve search results. This coffee lecture is geared to searchers of all levels.
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    The Unitary Patent in CAS STNext®

    The new Unitary Patent (UP) system officially launched on June 1, providing an extension of the European patent system with a centralized post-grant procedure and the ability to bring disputes before a Unified Patent Court (UPC).
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: Interoperability between CAS STNext® and CAS SciFindern

    Users with access to both CAS solutions, CAS STNext® and SciFindern can transfer results from CAS Registry®, CAplusSM and Medline® to SciFindern with a simple click of a button.
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: Monitor European Unitary Patents and Unified Patent Court Opt-Outs in FIZ PatMon!

    FIZ PatMon leverages the vast collection of patent and legal status data in the INPADOC database to provide an efficient automated solution to patent monitoring.
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: Importing/Exporting Patent Numbers and Other Qualifiers

    In this e-seminar, we will show the procedures to import data into CAS STNext and to extract information for downstream applications, focusing on identifiers such as patent numbers and DOIs.
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    CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture: Who Owns What: The Ultimate Patent Owner

    CAS STNext will soon be enhanced with an additional field in CAplus that indicates the Ultimate Owner of the IP
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    Patent Family Information on STN - How to benefit from high quality resources

    Reliable patent family information is of great value to IP professionals when assessing the global legal protection of individual inventions. STN offers high quality data from three major patent family databases, including the DWPI, CAplus and INPADOC.
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