Webinars

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.

Big things are coming to CAS SciFinder!

Join us for a special session where we will share an early sneak preview of some exciting new features and capabilities that will be coming to CAS SciFinder later this year.  

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.    

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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 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.

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.

Discover an informative webinar delving into the challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) on drug discovery teams. Everyone wants to shorten timelines, cut costs, and reduce risk by implementing the silver bullet of AI and ML into their drug discovery workflow, but scientific breakthroughs are only as trustworthy as the data that initiates them.

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.

The human microbiota, often referred to as the "forgotten organ," is a large collection of predominantly bacteria, viruses, protozoa, fungi, and archaea. With around 40 trillion bacterial cells, their size eclipses the number of cells in your own body. What does the latest research tell us about this hidden ecosystem and the constant communication that exists between the gut and brain?

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.

Information solutions are integrated into workflows and therefore  require connecting different tools. CAS STNext is no exception. Unique identifiers are used to match documents between the different systems.

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.