THOMSON INNOVATION

Training Opportunities

Thomson Innovation, the premier IP research and analysis solution, is the definitive online intelligence source that sparks innovation and drives strategic decisions, giving you a competitive advantage in the marketplace. It combines global authoritative patent, business, and news content, analytics, and worldwide collaboration within a robust, integrated workflow platform.

We invite you to explore the following Thomson Innovation training opportunities.

Overview

Free Thomson Innovation Education & Training

Whether you want to get the basics and get started fast — or fine tune your skills, Thomson Reuters can help with a variety of targeted training opportunities. Classes are conducted over the internet — some live with open question-and-answer sessions — and others prerecorded so you can take advantage of them at your convenience, around the clock.

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Live Training

Live Training

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New User Training: Thomson Innovation Searching & Organizing

New users who want to learn the best practices of searching and organizing your research will benefit from this session.

Who should attend: New users onThomson Innovation.

  • January 29, 2010: Register
    2:00 p.m. New York
    11:00 a.m. Los Angeles

  • February 9, 2010: Register
    10:00 a.m. London
    11:00 a.m. Paris

  • February 9, 2010: Register
    2:00 p.m. New York
    11:00 a.m. Los Angeles

  • February 18, 2010: Register
    10:30 a.m. Mumbai
    4:00 p.m. Sydney
    1:00 p.m. Beijing

New Frontiers in IP Research: Thomson Innovation

Thomson Innovation provides researchers access to patents, scientific literature, business and news information through a single, powerful interface. If you'd like to learn more about what is offered in Thomson Innovation, this session is for you.

Who should attend: People who want to learn more about Thomson Innovation, but are not current users.

  • February 2, 2010: Register
    9:00 a.m. New York
  • February 2, 2010: Register
    2:00 p.m. New York
    11:00 a.m. Los Angeles


New User Training: Creating Alerts and Exporting Data

Learn how to set up alerts based on your search criteria and create reports in Excel, PDF and various other formats.

Who should attend: New users onThomson Innovation.

  • February 23, 2010: Register
    2:00 p.m. New York
    11:00 a.m. Los Angeles

  • February 25, 2010: Register
    10:30 a.m. Mumbai
    4:00 p.m. Sydney
    1:00 p.m. Beijing


New User Training: Setting Up Preferences in Thomson Innovation

This course provides an overview to setting user preferences on Thomson Innovation.

Who should attend: New users onThomson Innovation.

  • January 27, 2010: Register
    10:30 a.m. Mumbai
    4:00 p.m. Sydney
    1:00 p.m. Beijing

  • February 16, 2010: Register
    2:00 p.m. New York
    11:00 a.m. Los Angeles

  • February 17, 2010: Register
    10:00 a.m. London
    11:00 a.m. Paris

Patent Analytics on Thomson Innovation

This course provides information about patent landscaping, competitive intelligence and ways of identifying licensing opportunities.

Who should attend: New users onThomson Innovation or those looking for more information about the product.

  • February 4, 2010: Register
    10:30 a.m. Mumbai
    4:00 p.m. Sydney
    1:00 p.m. Beijing

Recorded Sessions

Recorded Sessions

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Thomson Innovation: Getting Started

A basic overview of Thomson Innovation
(7:23 minutes)
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Thomson Innovation 2.3 Update

Overview of the enhancements completed on the 2.3 release of Thomson Innovation, December 2009.
(11:18 minutes)
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Thomson Innovation: 2.2 Overview

An update on the new content and features in Thomson Innovation 2.2, released July 12, 2009.
(11:38 minutes)
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A Japanese version is also available for this session.
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Thomson Innovation: 2.1 Overview

An overview of the added content and new functionality in Thomson Innovation 2.1, released on March 29, 2009.
(15:20 minutes)
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Thomson Innovation: Migrating from PatentWeb

An overview of the migration process from PatentWeb into Thomson Innovation.
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Thomson Innovation: Creating Alerts

Learn how to set up alerts and watch for patent record changes in Thomson Innovation
(6:35 minutes)
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Thomson Innovation: Digging Deep for Prior Art

Learn how to utilize additional content and features in Thomson Innovation to find prior art.
(6:36 minutes)
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Thomson Innovation: Clustering and Themescape Maps

This is an overview of the Clustering feature and Themescape maps in Thomson Innovation.
(7:36 minutes)
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Thomson Innovation: Setting Your Preferences

In this session, you will learn how to set up time-saving preferences for searching, results display and analysis.
(14:05 minutes)
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Thomson Innovation: Migrating from Delphion

An overview of the migration process from Delphion into Thomson Innovation.
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Thomson Innovation: Analyzing Patent Information

Learn ways to uncover trends and licensing ventures, do portfolio analysis and gather competitive intelligence through Thomson Innovation.
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Thomson Innovation: Sharing Your Findings

Learn how to share saved work on Thomson Innovation. This is a companion session to "Making Annotations on Thomson Innovation".
(10:32 minutes)
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Thomson Innovation: Making Annotations

Explains how to create annotations on Thomson Innovation. This is a companion session to "Thomson Innovation: Sharing your Findings".
(7:05 minutes)
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Thomson Innovation: Learning to Use your Administration ID

Jump into your role as a Thomson Innovation administrator with this session on creating user profiles and managing settings.
(8:18 minutes)
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