CAS IP Finder is the premier IP search tool, offering access to more than 100 data sources with flexible search pathways and powerful analysis and visualization tools to help you discover quality IP insights. Join us as we discuss tips and tricks to optimize your search experience.
CAS lead scientists will discuss scientific breakthroughs and trends to watch.
CAS IP Finder is the premier IP search tool, offering access to more than 100 data sources with flexible search pathways and powerful analysis and visualization tools to help you discover quality IP insights. Join us as we discuss tips and tricks to optimize your search experience.
Built on the renowned foundation of STN®, CAS IP Finder™ offers new tools that make it easy to search, analyze, and share top-quality IP results.
Built on the renowned foundation of STN®, CAS IP Finder™ offers new tools that make it easy to search, analyze, and share top-quality IP results.
Enhance your chemical structure searches with CAS STNext's unique features. This webinar covers best practices for the STN Structure Editor, variable and generic nodes, node attributes, and leveraging integrated databases like DCR and DWPIM. For intermediate to advanced searchers.
Join experts from Beyond Benign, Takeda, and CAS to explore green chemistry innovations transforming industries. Discover emerging sustainability trends, learn how scientific breakthroughs balance environmental responsibility with commercial success, and see which lab innovations are moving to market.
Explore advanced search strategies for combinatorial libraries in CAS STNext. Gain practical skills in Markush structure interpretation and database navigation for effective IP and prior art research.
Leadership isn't just for managers—it's essential for every scientist's career development. Dr. Jennifer M. Heemstra offers practical insights on developing leadership skills that complement your scientific expertise, helping you navigate your career path with confidence regardless of where you're headed next.
Discover the latest CAS STNext features including AI-enhanced Exploratory Search and CAS Bioactivity. Learn how to search without command line and access the market's largest collection of normalized life sciences content.
In today’s fast-paced research environment, chemists can’t afford to risk their next breakthrough by relying on disconnected systems or incomplete data. Whether you’re developing new materials, optimizing a synthesis route, or scaling up production, every decision depends on fast, accurate access to trusted chemical knowledge.
CAS SciFinder® integrates substance, reaction, and reference data into a single platform, curated by scientists and updated daily.
Patent landscape analysis of cultivated meat innovations: indexing strategies, competitive trends, and search techniques for cell-based food patents.
Discover how CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform accelerates energy materials innovation. Explore current R&D challenges, industrialization barriers, and practical solutions for advancing sustainable energy technologies from research to commercialization.
Explore 2025 drug discovery trends with CAS experts—CAR-T therapies, AI trials, biomarkers & more. Register today.
Discover how Searchsense revolutionizes research with AI-interpreted natural language searches. Learn to create targeted queries, retrieve precise results for substances and reactions, and leverage visualizations to quickly analyze literature trends—making scientific discovery more intuitive and efficient than ever before.
Searching coordination compounds can be complex due to their diverse applications. They can serve as catalysts in industrial processes, drugs or drug delivery systems in medicinal chemistry, or dyes and pigments in textile dyeing and the display industry.
CAS has released new CAS IP Finder, powered by STN™, features within CAS STNext. In this coffee lecture, we will explore the custom keyword highlighting features and report formatting options now available in CAS STNext with a real-world example.
Avoid delays and get to market faster by submitting accurate CA Index Names and, when appropriate, CAS Registry Numbers in your World Health Organization (WHO) International Nonproprietary Names (INN) submission. Join this webinar with CAS Registry Services to learn how to obtain accurate and complete chemical substance identity information from CAS chemists experienced in nomenclature conventions relevant to regulatory reporting.
Companies adopting sustainability strategies that extend beyond regulatory and compliance requirements can unlock long-term business value and gain a competitive advantage. However, achieving this at scale has functional and fiscal requirements.
CAS STNext offers integrated access to many leading global databases. In addition to comprehensive patent information, many files also include - or focus exclusively on - non-patent literature (NPL).
See a walkthrough of new IP-related information, capabilities, and visualizations in CAS SciFinder that are designed to speed innovation in your existing research workflow.
Searching for inventor names can be difficult. Original information may or may not be clean or consistent, and various database standardization processes can hinder searching. This webinar will show you expert tips on effectively finding these names in CAS STNext.
Monitoring your organization’s patents ensures innovation protection, helps identify opportunities for licensing, and supports strategic decision-making. Tracking competitors' intellectual property reveals emerging trends, potential infringement risks, and areas for differentiation or innovation.
INFULL and KRFULL have been updated with content enhancements and new search options, aligning them with the other full-text patent files in CAS STNext. This session will cover significant content enhancements to these files, harmonizing the search experience with other full-text patent databases.
How is AI accelerating scientific research capabilities across disciplines? This webinar will explore some of the most successful recent applications of AI in research, as well as what opportunities are on the horizon. Join our expert panel as they discuss specific use cases, challenges, and opportunities within the larger context of today’s dynamic research landscape.
InChI strings and InChIKeys are industry standards for identifying and describing small molecules that can enrich your search in CAS STNext. InChI information has recently been added to the CAS REGISTRY® and Derwent Chemistry Resource (DCR) databases, along with the existing InChI information in the ReaxysFileSub database. In this session, we will introduce you to InChI strings and InChIKeys.
Join us for a focused overview of the powerful indexing features that differentiate the U.S. patent full-text databases on STNext. Learn how specific substances are precisely indexed, with a short demonstration on how to make the most of this rich information.
Comprehensive patent assignee searches are important for gaining an overview of competitors’ intellectual property (IP) portfolios, whether for due diligence or potential collaborations.
Discover how to efficiently navigate the vast database of chemical reactions using the CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform. Learn to obtain comprehensive synthetic routes and preparation details for target compounds and identify specific types of reactions relevant to your research. Explore important tips with case studies and make full use of retrosynthetic analysis.
Japanese File Index codes and F-Terms are two important classification systems created by the Japanese Patent Office. In this webinar, we will review the background and philosophy of both classification systems and discuss the benefits of having the recently revised thesauri for these two classification systems on CAS STNext.
This webinar will provide a hands-on introduction to CAS Draw for efficient structure searching. The forum will include search demonstrations on precise molecules to fragment/parent structures, such as similar drug molecules, organometallic complexes, MOF molecules, and polymers.
This webinar will focus on the data support capabilities of the CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform in facilitating technology transfer. Combined with its unique data indexing and analytical techniques, the CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform can accurately assess the technological impact within the scientific domain.
Searching for polymer information can be a complicated task. This webinar will discuss searching for polymer information across multiple databases on the STNext platform and explain multiple search approaches. You will learn:
April 24 webinar on materials science innovations, featuring speakers from Dow and CAS.
As the use of solar energy continues to increase globally, rapid developments are creating an increasing challenge: the sustainable disposal of outdated solar panel technology.
Academic writing is a critical and inevitable part of scientific research. However, it can be challenging, especially for beginners.
In this webinar, learn how the CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform™ supports students and researchers in preparing high-quality scientific papers.
In this webinar, we will discuss how to effectively search for generically claimed “Markush” sequences, with a focus on MARPAT, a Markush database covering such sequence claims. We will walk through different search strategies, from motif sequence searches to structure searches, and demonstrate how MARPAT can be leveraged to retrieve relevant patent information.
Avoid delays and expedite market entry by submitting accurate CA Index Names and, when appropriate, CAS Registry Numbers in your PMN application. Join our webinar with CAS Inventory Expert Service (IES) to learn how to obtain accurate and complete chemical substance identity information from CAS chemists experienced in nomenclature conventions relevant to regulatory reporting.
In this webinar, we will share what’s new in the CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform and updates to help you accelerate your research process.
Driven by requests and trends from our searchers, CAS STNext developers and engineers work continuously to improve the CAS STNext interface, content, and workflows. In this session, we will cover:
In this webinar, a CAS expert will lead you through an efficient understanding of the CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform.
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 for research in CAS SciFinder.
Searching within full-text patent documents can be challenging. CAS STNext incorporates multiple features that make it easy to extract meaningful and valuable data from its vast collection of full-text source materials provided by global patent-issuing authorities. In this session, we will cover:
Chemical structure searches, especially Markush searches, can be daunting. This webinar will discuss various tips and tricks for searching CAS STNext structure-searchable databases.
Searching bio-sequences often require multiple approaches. In this webinar, you will learn about a new display option available in GENESEQ, USGENE, and PATGENE that simplifies search results and reporting for bio-sequence search.
The rapid pace of scientific progress is exciting—but keeping up with what’s new can be overwhelming. Want an overview of important trends emerging across the scientific landscape to keep an eye on in 2025?
Important IP information is contained in the claims section of patent documents, but this information can be difficult to extract.
Get a look into the important high-quality data when researching patents.
The time at which information is made available can be a critical component of many patent-related legal actions, but navigating it can be complicated. CAS STNext’s databases include a number of unique date fields to help you hone your search and ensure you capture critical references.
Exceed client expectations with an expertly curated freedom-to-operate analysis that guides and protects commercialization. Learn why FTO searches in scientific fields like chemistry and biotechnology present unique challenges that require strategic precision. Join scientific IP search experts Lucy Teixeira Antunes and Christine Hansen, Ph.D., to avoid infringement and go to market with confidence.
Learn how to navigate information and research challenges within the energy field.
CAS STNext recently enhanced the Role Indicator (RL) search field, available in CAplus, to help searchers pinpoint patents in which a substance of interest is specifically tagged in the claims as part of the CAS PatentPak® workflow The Substance Claimed role indicator (SCLM) can be added to your search for a substance of interest to focus your result set.
A utility model is a second-tier intellectual property right that protects innovations but differs from a classic patent. They play a significant role in IP, especially in Eastern Asia. Often representing the earliest publication of an invention, utility models are important to consider in prior art, freedom to operate (FTO), and validity searches.
Chemical structure search is an important tool for discovering relevant details in both patents and non-patent literature. CAS STNext includes unique content and functionality designed to help you optimize your structure search and uncover critical insights.
In this webinar, intended for intermediate to advanced searchers with a basic understanding of structure drawing, we’ll explore how you can use these features to boost your search.
Polymers have many applications in different fields. Learn what opportunities are ahead in this webinar.
Learn how our newest solution, CAS BioFinder®, helps drug discovery scientists quickly narrow their list of drug candidates to make confident recommendations. We’ll explore how scientists are already using CAS BioFinder, how we partner with pharmaceutical companies, and what the future holds for the solution.
A trivial product name for a drug, agrochemical, or cosmetic ingredient is represented in a Chinese patent document by its Chinese characters. However, most machine translation tools do not correctly translate this name back to English. Searching these substances in Chinese full-text sources provides a significant loss of recall.
Drug project initiation can be accelerated with the CAS SciFInder Discovery Platform. Learn how in this webinar.
Leverage toxicology and regulatory data in CAS STNext to expand your searches.
CAS STNext offers powerful capabilities to help searchers pinpoint and explore chemical substances. By using CAS STNext, you can leverage unique, integrated access to a powerful collection of substances, structures, and property data from a variety of leading sources to ensure your search is comprehensive.
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.
Discover how to boost your chemical structure searches using the Derwent Chemistry Resource (DCR) in CAS STNext. Learn to combine DCR with CAS REGISTRY® for comprehensive search strategies, including applications in pharmaceutical synthesis. Optimize your use of CAS STNext's powerful structure search capabilities in this informative webinar.
CAS SciFinder assists research communities in bringing new ideas to life faster, which simplifies how you find and connect critical information.
CAS SciFinder assists research communities in bringing new ideas to life faster, which simplifies how you find and connect critical information.
The research and development of materials used in biomedical applications, or biomaterials, has seen rapid expansion and diversification over the last 20 years. From highly engineered synthetic polymers to biodegradable metals to naturally derived substances, their unique properties can be used for diverse functions and applications in medicine.
Join experts form CAS, Westlake University (China), and Ortholevo for an overview of the current emerging trends in biomaterial research. See academic and commercial perspectives on real-world applications of biomaterials in personalized healthcare including orthopedics, wound care, and regenerative engineering.
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.
Join Managing IP and CAS for a webinar on July 24 at 12 p.m. ET / 5:00 p.m. BST / 6:00 p.m. CET to learn how a strong IP search strategy can ensure your pharmaceutical substance succeeds where others fail.
A lack of novelty from the initial patent filing to post-grant actions such as inter partes review (IPR) or infringement litigation can cause you to lose time and money.
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.
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 CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform can analyze experimental data, track your research progress, and help you prepare papers and patents. In this webinar, we will cover how to conduct these processes and respond to reviewer comments to accelerate your workflow.
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.
The CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform can help you design experimental plans and dive into related results. This webinar will teach you how to implement these plans in your projects.
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.
This webinar will focus on using the CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform to determine research topics, write thesis proposals, and conduct literature reviews.
This webinar is an overview of the CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform. Get acquainted with various features like References, Substances, Reactions, Retrosynthetic Analyses, Sequences, Analytical Methods, and Formulations. We will also share online resources and end with a Q&A session.
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.
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.
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.
FIZ PatMon, included with the STN IP Protection SuiteTM 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.