Webinars

Join us as CAS SciFinder experts walk you through recent solution enhancements. We will go in-depth, helping you understand how to take advantage of newly released features and the overall impact on researching in CAS SciFinder. Stick around until the end for a preview of some additional enhancements you can expect in the coming months.

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Reliable patent family information is critical when assessing the global legal protection of individual innovations. CAS STNext offers high-quality data from three major patent family databases, including CAplus, the Derwent World Patents Index, and INPADOC.

CAS STNext includes many powerful features to support sequence searching. One of these is the Sequence Code Match (SCM) search tool. This session will provide an overview of how SCM works and explore how it can optimize your search query.

CAS STNext gives you integrated access to dozens of leading global scientific, patent, and technical databases on a single platform. In this coffee lecture, we will explore the value of one of these resources: PQSCITECH (ProQuest Science and Technology).

The integration of trusted, searchable content in CAS STNext makes it an ideal solution for conducting comprehensive regulatory searches.

Join us as CAS SciFinder experts walk you through recent solution enhancements. We will go in-depth, helping you understand how to take advantage of newly released features and the overall impact on researching in CAS SciFinder. Stick around until the end for a preview of some additional enhancements you can expect in the coming months.

The International Patent Classification (IPC) and Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) systems are powerful hierarchies that categorize patents into specific technological domains. As new areas of innovation emerge and technologies evolve, these systems are periodically revised to reflect these developments. Therefore, it is critical to keep your search strategies and alerts updated as new classification symbols are introduced or changes are made.

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CAS STNext contains a wealth of searchable chemical structure information from both patents and non-patent literature in several databases. Many of these databases are paired with bibliographic databases for easy cross-file searching.

CAS STNext contains a wealth of searchable chemical structure information from both patents and non-patent literature in several databases. Many of these databases are paired with bibliographic databases for easy cross-file searching.

This forum will focus on the application of the CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform in analyzing experimental data, tracking research progress, preparing papers and patents, as well as responding to reviewers' comments.

An overview of the extensive applications of CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform in biological related fields such as life sciences, biosynthesis, bioenergy, biomaterials, biomedicine, food, and daily chemicals.

Nanoscale materials are bridging the gap between nanotechnology and bioelectronics, paving the way for highly sensitive biosensors.

CAS STNext offers searchers integrated access to many leading global databases, including several covering the engineering field. In this session, we will provide an overview of the different resources in this area and the ENGINEERING cluster. We will also explore functionalities of these databases and illustrate how to create engineering search strategies with a few relevant examples.

The Derwent World Patents Index, produced by Clarivate, is a premier source of global patent data. Searchers accessing this database through CAS STNext can leverage editorially enhanced titles, abstracts, and specialized chemical indexing to pinpoint relevant patents and capture critical insights. In this session, we will review key features of DWPI within CAS STNext and provide insight into making the most of this powerful data to enhance your search strategies.

Join us as CAS SciFinder experts walk you through recent solution enhancements. We will go in-depth, helping you understand how to take advantage of newly released features and the overall impact on researching in CAS SciFinder. Stick around until the end for a preview of some additional enhancements you can expect in the coming months.

Polymer searching is challenging , given the various ways polymers can be described in patents and the frequent need to simultaneously search for relevant properties and applications. In this session, we will explore how polymers are indexed in the Derwent and CAS databases within CAS STNext and illustrate how to create polymer search strategies with a few relevant examples.

From allergy medicine in the morning, lunch in the afternoon, and skincare at night, we are interacting with the work of formulation scientists all day long. Join us to learn how CAS Formulus, a tool for scientists working in formulation chemistry, can help with your schoolwork today and your career tomorrow.

ReaxysFileSub, in addition to its vast collection of chemical structures, now also includes up-to-date properties and reaction information as a complement to other collections on CAS STNext, such as CAS REGISTRY® and the Derwent Chemical Resource (DCR). Join us as we share how to obtain this information and use it in conjunction with the corresponding bibliographic database, ReaxysFileBib.

Eight months have passed since the launch of the new Unitary Patent (UP) system, which provides a simplified route for innovators seeking patent protection across multiple European countries. Join this session for a look into key trends in the Unitary Patent landscape and learn how to find this information in CAS STNext databases.

The EPO’s INPADOC databases represent an expansive collection of bibliographic data from millions of patent documents and their legal statuses. Searchers accessing the INPADOC files through CAS STNext benefit from enhancements and additional quality assurance provided by human expertise. Join this session for an introduction to INPADOC in CAS STNext.

CAS STNext gives you access to multiple databases with Chinese patent information, including CAplus, DWPI, and the recently reloaded and enhanced CNFULL. This session, open to searchers of all expertise levels, will highlight tips and resources for searching Chinese patent documents within CAS STNext.

Millions of research documents and patents have been published on immuno-oncology, but which emerging trends are the fastest growing, and how can you separate the signal from the noise?

Join us as CAS SciFinder experts walk you through recent solution enhancements. We will go in-depth, helping you understand how to take advantage of newly released features and the overall impact on researching in CAS SciFinder. Stick around until the end for a preview of some additional enhancements you can expect in the coming months.

Join us as CAS SciFinder experts walk you through recent solution enhancements. We will go in-depth, helping you understand how to take advantage of newly released features and the overall impact of researching in CAS SciFinder. You can just stick around until the end for a preview of some additional enhancements you can expect in the coming months.

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FIZ PatMon, included with the STN IP Protection Suite^TM from CAS, is a valuable tool for keeping track of a patent’s legal aspects. In this session, users will get an inside look at the specific capabilities in FIZ PatMon designed to help you monitor a patent’s validity over time. This session is open to any searcher interested in patent monitoring, including current FIZ PatMon users.

CAS PatentPak, integrated in CAS STNext, saves users valuable time during patent research by providing seamless, efficient access to full-text patents and pinpointing hard-to-find chemistry information.

At times, the rate of scientific progress can almost feel overwhelming, with millions of publications and patents published every year. What if you had a birds-eye view of the emerging scientific landscape, the trends to focus on, and the ones to deprioritize?

CAS STNext includes powerful functionality designed to help users search normalized numeric data. Physico-chemical property data is available in the CAS REGISTRY® substance database, and many bibliographic databases also contain property information, made accessible by the Numeric Property Search (NPS) feature of CAS STNext.

This coffee lecture will focus on biological species in CAS STNext®. Biological species such as pathogens are typical search subjects in the pharma, biotech, and crop protection domains. CAS STNext patent and biomedical databases, including CAplus and EMBASE, provide a controlled vocabulary for the biological classification system. The hierarchy within these curated keyword lists allows users to precisely retrieve results related to a particular taxonomic level such as the species and optionally include lower or higher ranks.

This coffee lecture will focus on biological species in CAS STNext®. Biological species such as pathogens are typical search subjects in the pharma, biotech, and crop protection domains. CAS STNext patent and biomedical databases, including CAplus and EMBASE, provide a controlled vocabulary for the biological classification system. The hierarchy within these curated keyword lists allows users to precisely retrieve results related to a particular taxonomic level such as the species and optionally include lower or higher ranks.

The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning has grown exponentially, and the chemistry field is not immune to this emerging trend. This webinar, "Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry: Opportunities, Trends, and Challenges," explores the landscape of AI and chemistry using CAS technologies to map publication and patent trends.

This coffee lecture will focus on inorganic materials and polymers, including alloys, ceramics, metal-organic frameworks, and other materials that find their applications in semiconductors, solar panels, and batteries. The CAplus database helps searchers identify these materials by their CAS Registry Number®, but CAS STNext gives you access to databases with complementary coverage beyond applied chemistry.

In this session, our Customer Success team will look back at enhancements, new features, and content additions in CAS STNext throughout 2023.

In a rapidly evolving technical and IP landscape, companies seeking protection for emerging innovations must continually monitor new developments that can pose critical threats to their patent portfolios. Keeping a close eye on changes to pending applications from competitors, legal action on related similar patents, emerging prior art, and new publications is a critical practice for those seeking to stay competitive, speed up innovation, and minimize litigation risks.

Join us for a discussion on formulations data with panelists from CAS, Dow, and Procter & Gamble. Learn about the challenges and opportunities of digitizing and leveraging formulations data to uncover valuable insights and enhance your company’s formulation innovation.

Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are among the most promising drug classes in oncology. The ADC research landscape is rapidly evolving, driven by advancements in antibody engineering, linker technology, payload development and diversification, and more. These new innovations are reshaping the promise of ADCs.. However, they also present challenges for innovators and drug developers seeking to understand the complex and competitive intellectual property (IP) landscape.

In this webinar, experts will explore the latest trends in ADC innovation and the complications of understanding the IP landscape in this area. They will highlight the critical importance of staying up to date with evolving R&D trends and patent filings to determine freedom to operate, protect complex innovations, and maximize ROI. 

In this session, we will highlight the recently announced Nobel Prize-winning science of 2022 recipients and its applications within CAS SciFinder.

Conducting a comprehensive prior art search in chemistry can be challenging. CAS STNext and its included databases enable these searches through unique indexing, classification systems, and content curation.

This session will examine the various methods used to index and abstract the important information within documents to support more comprehensive prior art searches. We will highlight features such as structure indexing, fragmentation indexing, and various proprietary indexing and classification systems. We will also share how these tools can help you search with confidence.

During the pandemic, the popularity of preprint servers grew because they emerged as the fastest way to share research insights on the detection, vaccination, and treatment of the coronavirus. CAplus currently includes nearly one million publications from a variety of preprint servers.

Explore how to search using the cluster in AGRICULTURE, uncover database insights, and integrate data into your search workflow with practical examples.

IP structure searches may have broad descriptions of cyclic systems where the elements, individual rings, or fusion types of rings in the ring system has too many options to be defined in a structure search. Learn how to use the Ring System Data elements in CAS REGISTRY®, specifically built to assist in defining rings using a unique set of search fields.

Join us as CAS SciFinder experts walk you through recent solution enhancements. We will go in-depth, helping you understand how to take advantage of newly released features and the overall impact on researching in CAS SciFinderⁿ. Stick around until the end for a preview of some additional enhancements you can expect in the coming months.

Before 2000, many drugs that formed a covalent bond with targets did so non-selectively, which often led to undesired side effects when compared to non-covalent drugs. This led to the belief that covalent inhibitors were not ideal drug candidates, resulting in limited development by the pharmaceutical industry. However, covalent drugs have experienced a remarkable resurgence in the last few years as evidenced by the growing number of approvals by the USFDA, including the 2021 approval of Sotorasib to treat lung cancer, which was recently featured on ACS Webinars.

Databases in CAS STNext® include a wealth of citations, including both patent and non-patent literature. This information can be a steppingstone for your searches and analyses by supporting a comprehensive prior art search, finding key patents, identifying licensing opportunities, and more.

CAS STNext® contains a broad range of citation information for both patent and non-patent literature. This session will provide an overview of this type of data and tips for searching in the Derwent World Patents Index, CAplus, and other relevant databases on CAS STNext, including search examples.

CAS STNext offers powerful alerting features that help you stay up-to-date with the latest developments in your areas of interest, monitor competitor patenting activities, watch for potential infringements, and more.

In this session, we will highlight a number of approaches and best practices for setting up manual and automatic alerts (both single database and multi-file) to support your needs.

In today’s accelerated pace of innovation, it is essential for organizations to leverage comprehensive IP insights to inform R&D, fuel strategic decisions, and protect their investments.

In this webinar, CAS experts will walk you through the process of  obtaining your nomenclature and CAS Registry Numbers® for your WHO/INN dossiers. We will outline the information you need for your request, review a typical timeline, and provide tips on how to work with CAS to make the process run smoothly.

Looking for a comprehensive collection of global databases, scientist-curated content, and patent information? CAS STNext® is an advanced precision search and analysis tool that can power your IP searches and fuel innovation.

Looking for a comprehensive collection of global databases, scientist-curated content, and patent information? CAS STNext® is an advanced precision search and analysis tool that can power your IP searches and fuel innovation.

CAS STNext will soon be enhanced with an additional field in CAplus that indicates the Ultimate Owner of the IP. With this data, search strategies for company names could be expanded to find those patents where an organization was not the original patent assignee, but still own the IP. Join us for a preview of this new functionality.

Join us as CAS SciFinderⁿ experts walk you through recent solution enhancements. We will go in-depth, helping you understand how to take advantage of newly released features and the overall impact on researching in CAS SciFinderⁿ. Stick around until the end for a preview of some additional enhancements you can expect in the coming months.

Watch this CAS webinar with IPWatchdog and discover ways to build more robust biopharma patent specifications with well-supported claims backed by strong IP search findings.

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).

Many databases on CAS STNext have Japanese patent information. This e-seminar will identify those databases and their specific Japanese patent coverage. The session will also cover the differences in patent number formats over time, the various kind codes used by the Japanese patent office, and the two Japanese classification systems (FCL and FTERM). Links to the Japanese national register will also be discussed. This e-seminar is geared to searchers of all levels.

The Derwent Chemistry Resource (DCR) substance database contains many different search options. This coffee lecture discusses molecular formula information and how to search that field to improve results. It is geared to searchers of all levels.

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Every substance with a molecular formula in CAS REGISTRY has searchable element information. Element information can be used to comprehensively retrieve relevant compounds with a common composition and effectively refine a large substance set.

The increasingly crowded and complex biologics space is evolving faster than companies can manage sequence information to secure and protect their valuable IP assets. These challenges can put investments at risk and lead to future patent entanglements. This webinar will explore the use of quality sequence search data to close information gaps and ensure companies have the critical insights they need during R&D to determine patentability and freedom to operate for their valuable biologics innovations.

In today’s complex, competitive environment, monitoring your patent portfolio and keeping up with new developments can require a lot of time and attention.

Join us as CAS SciFinder experts walk you through recent solution enhancements. We will go in-depth, helping you understand how to take advantage of newly released features and the overall impact on researching in CAS SciFinder. Stick around until the end for a preview of some additional enhancements you can expect in the coming months.

Join this webinar to delve into the latest trends in biologics innovation and explore the complications of searching the IP landscape. Our speakers will highlight the critical importance of staying up to date with evolving trends to determine freedom to operate, understand patentability, and maximize ROI in the R&D pipeline for biotech and drug development-focused organizations.

With today’s accelerated pace of innovation, IP search demands are evolving. CAS Scientific Patent Explorer helps you search confidently and accelerate your R&D by connecting you to trusted scientific content and patent information in one intuitive solution.

Join us as CAS SciFinder experts walk you through recent solution enhancements. We will go in-depth, so you will understand why the changes were made and the positive impact on your research efforts. Stick around until the end for a preview of some additional enhancements you can expect in the coming months.

Explore Reactions (presented in Chinese)

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Comprehensive introduction for reference search methods in  CAS SciFinder Discovery  Platform, skills for improving accuracy, comprehensiveness and efficiency for reference search, keyword optimization, and patent full text retrieval.

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Overview of CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform, especially the introduction of new content and feature, as well as the application in variety of scientific disciplines; Q&A with demonstration.

Join us as CAS SciFinder experts walk you through recent solution enhancements. We will go in-depth, helping you understand how to take advantage of newly released features and the overall impact on researching in CAS SciFinder.

This CAS SciFinder webinar (presented in Chinese), will focus on strategies for finding homogeneous and heterogeneous catalytic reactions and catalysts.

This Chinese language webinar will focus on the preparation, manufacturing, and characterization of nano materials, as well as their application in different fields.

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This CAS SciFinder webinar (presented in Chinese), will focus on search strategies for rare earth metals, their oxidation derivatives and coordination complexes, as well as their preparation and applications.

In this CAS SciFinder webinar you will learn how to conduct a reaction search and how to filter results using criteria such as yield, preferred reagents, solvents, catalysts, or those that focus on a green chemistry. We will also demonstrate the retrosynthesis tool which can help find alternative synthetic approaches.

This CAS SciFinder webinar will feature best practices for searching nano-sized materials and their respective applications, and includes how a combination of substance, formula, and text searches combined with filtering capabilities drive focused search results.

CAS SciFinder, the most advanced science-aware relevance engine in the industry, leverages the largest curated source of scientific information in the world. The most comprehensive source from substances, chemical structures, and reactions to prior art search. Supporting early stage exploration from retrosynthetic planning to biosequence searching, CAS SciFinder accelerates breakthrough innovation by making unseen connections using hindsight, insight and foresight.

The CAS Chemical Compliance webinar will show you how to get started using the product, how to find important toxicity information, and upcoming enhancements to the product.

In this webinar, we will show key features of CAS Scientific Patent Explorer, and demonstrate how you can utilize this platform to search a wide array of patent content using both text and chemical structures, and use built-in analysis and visualization features to identify important patent trends.

This SciFinder webinar outlines best practices for making substance and reaction searches as effective as possible. See how to customize a search to give you the results you want, and then effectively work with your answer set.

This CAS SciFinder webinar (presented in Chinese), focuses on search strategies for photoelectric materials, including their preparation, properties, and applications.

In this webinar, we will show key features of CAS Scientific Patent Explorer, and give you a preview into how you can utilize this platform to analyze the landscape to discover patentability and trends, identify relevant prior art, assess overlaps, and evaluate risk, and create and share insights with key stakeholders.

This CAS SciFinder webinar (presented in Chinese), focuses on finding inorganic substances, organometallics, and composite materials.

This SciFinder webinar covers best practices for making reference searches as effective as possible. See how to focus on text search results, and ways to work with your answers.

CAS has developed an AI-based prior art search technology, which is now available in CAS STNext®. This webinar will demonstrate use of these new tools, as well as a brief overview of the latest features.

This CAS SciFinder webinar (presented in Chinese), focuses on the polymer substance search protocols, such as molecular formula, structure, and properties, as well as polymer preparation, modification and application searches. 

This SciFinder webinar will demonstrate the comprehensive content and search capabilities in SciFinder that will make it your go-to solution for retrieving sustainable approaches related to your research topic.

This SciFinder webinar focuses on best practices for getting the most relevant results when searching for specific compound classes, like polymers, isotopes, and coordination compounds.

In this webinar we will show how CAS Formulus may help you get ahead of competitors' formulations of future products. Find formulation common threads that create trends through food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and agriculture.

Recent enhancements make CAS SciFinder the most complete source of content for biosequence searching available today - and a must have in every molecular biologist’s solution toolbox. See how we’ve combined the biosequences information from patents and journals in the CAS Content Collection™ with submitted sequences in NCBI, giving you access to more than one billion sequence data points to explore using BLAST, CDR or Motif search algorithms.

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Join us as we look at how CAS Analytical Methods™ part of the CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform™, provides you with a deeper look at the equipment used, the sample preparation and the validation of methods.

In this Chinese language forum, you will learn analytical methods retrieval in CAS Analytical Methods and CAS SciFinder covering biology, chemistry, and pharmacy.

Join CAS and a panel of industry experts for this virtual session to explore trends in patent analytics and innovation.

Learn how to compare formulations in CAS Formulus^® . The latest enhancements will allow you to do side-by-side comparisons of up to three formulations in a user familiar format. Register for this webinar and see a demonstration.