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Seminar, 30 nov 2018
- Agenda
  - morning
  - afternoon
- Thoughts / Issues

Seminar, 30 nov 2018

Subject:	Searching with unclear boundaries
Date:	Friday November 30th 2018 10:00h-16:00h (including 2 coffee breaks and lunch)
Moderator:	Aalt van de Kuilen
Location:	BCN Congress Centre, Catharijnesingel 48, Utrecht.

Novelty, validity have a clear scope.
More difficult searches turn out to be collections (incl. FTO before a product definition is fixed)

Agenda

morning

Welcome
Aalt van de Kuilen, WON
Introduction: Searching with unclear boundaries
Manuela Popescu/Gerard Ypma - ASML
Patent attorneys’ view on FTO
Marijke Westra – V.O.
Break
Practical case: From uncertainty to comfort zone for FTO - experience from the example 'solar cell backsheets’
Monika Hanelt, AGFA

12.15 - 13.15 Lunch break

afternoon

Discussion in groups
Break
Presentations per group to arrive to a manual/check list

Thoughts / Issues

Request often vague
What questions to ask
What is the background
What is not asked, but should have been
PL ↔ NPL
Clear boundaries (years, companies, inventors, jurisdictions)
Interactive/iterative process
How to share/present results
How to store
Prepare for updating later