Video Tutorials: Patents 

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• BioInformatics Tutorials Series (BITS)
• GIS How to...
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• Scholarly Publication and Copyright

• An introduction: Why search for patents? What is a patent? (5:21)

• What does a patent look like? (2:23)

• How to search for patents (7:50)

• Which search tool should I use? Why shouldn't I just use Google? (5:29)

Recorded workshops from:

April 2009:

• Biotechnology Patent Fundamentals and Searching (1:21:00) 

January 2009 - IAP:

• Patent Searching Fundamentals (58:16)

• Biotechnology Patent Fundamentals and Searching (1:19:00) 

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