Hello,
This is to keep you informed on the plans being made for the Patent
Information Users Group (PIUG) 2000 annual meeting. This note incorporates
all available information. Additional information will be posted to the
PIUG email list, as it becomes available.
New This Update:
- Elena Sereix will demonstrate the Register of European Patents via the
Internet. Elena is the official product manager of the Register of
European Patents. (subject to final approval by the European Patent Office).
- Steve Adams will offer a "Comparison of US and IPC Classification
Systems". Steve was voted one of the favorite speakers at the PIUG 1999
meeting.
- Paul Germeraad will present his findings on "The Need for Information
Science Professionals in Today's R&D Organizations". Dr. Paul B.
Germeraad is currently Vice President of the Industrial Research
Institute(IRI).
- Tony Trippe and Richard Kurt will MC a Surprise Fun Entertainment on
Sunday evening during the Ice Cream Social, Sunday evening.
- Lucy Akers will organize Poster Sessions during the Wine and Cheese
Reception, Monday evening.
Please note that the PIUG activities continue Wednesday evening. Please
plan to stay over Wednesday evening, if possible, and attend the Derwent
Product Showcase on Thursday, May 4th.and May 5th.
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The 2000 PIUG Annual Meeting is Sunday, April 30th to Wednesday May 3rd in
Crystal City, Washington, D.C. Several other organizations are working in
cooperation with the PIUG to offer a full week of training opportunities
for patent searchers.
Location
- Hilton Crystal City at National Airport
2399 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, VA 22202
Reservations: (703) 418 6800 (ask for reservations)
Please specify that you are attending the PIUG meeting. The hotel provides
meeting room space based on the number of guests staying at the
Hilton. The special PIUG conference rate is $145 per night.
Notes:
1) Registration for the 2000 PIUG annual meeting:
Registration materials are available in the January, 2000 issue of the PIUG
newsletter. This gives PIUG members a first opportunity to register for
the meeting. On March 15th, the registration materials will be posted on
the PIUG email list and made available to non-members. The registration fee
for the three-day PIUG conference is:
$145 for PIUG Members (until 3/15/2000)
$175 for Non-Members of the PIUG
After March 15th, the fee will be $175 for everyone, if space is
available. This registration fee includes breakfast and lunch for May 1
through May 3. The registration fee does not include an evening
meal. Evening meals may be purchased separately in the Hotel or any of the
fine Washington D.C. restaurants.
2) 2000 PIUG Business Meeting
There is no fee for attending the PIUG Business Meeting on Sunday, April
30. All members of the PIUG are encouraged to attend the PIUG Business
Meeting and to participate in the running of the organization.
3) Derwent Product Showcase (May 4th and 5th)
Derwent will be mailing out a separate registration and program agenda for
the Derwent Product Showcase. See the contact information at the end of
this note.
4) A demonstration room will be open Monday through Wednesday. Barbara
Burg (barbara.burg@dupontpharma.com) is organizing the Demonstration Room.
The Vendors currently signed up include:
- Aurigin Systems
- BizInt Solutions
- Chemical Abstracts Service (STN)
- Derwent
- Dialog
- IBM Almaden
- IFI Plenum Data Corporation
- MicroPatent
- Questel - Orbit
I hope all these plans meet with your approval. We are really trying hard
to make this meeting a wonderful opportunity for patent searchers.
Further details of the 2000 PIUG annual meeting will be published on the
PIUG email list.
Sandra Unger
Chair, PIUG Inc.
Phone: (908) 730-2662
Fax: (908) 730-3230
PIUG 2000 Schedule
The preliminary schedule is as follows
(all times are approximate and subject to change).
Sunday, Morning April 30, 2000
9:00 am to 12 - Chemical Abstracts training (Kerry Stanley) Searching
for a Class of Chemical Substances in the Patent Literature
Sunday Afternoon
3:00 pm to 5pm - PIUG Business meeting
Sunday Evening
7:30 pm to 9 pm - Welcome Reception:
-- Ice Cream Social (sponsored by IBM Almaden)
-- Surprise Fun Entertainment by Tony Trippe and Richard Kurt
Monday, Morning May 1, 2000
7:30 to 8:30 Breakfast (sponsored by IFI Plenum Data Corp.)
IFI Claims/Patent Assignee Session (Chaired by Nancy Lambert)
8:30 to 10:00 - IFI Claims - New Ownership - Enhancements and Expansions
(Harry Allcock)
10:00 to 10:30 - Break
10:30 to 10:35 - Introduction to Patent Assignee Session
10:35 to 10:45 - Aventis chronology (Edlyn Simmons)
10:45 to 11:30 - Presentations by IFI (Monica Reider), Derwent (Mark
Bauer), and IBM (Steve Boyer)
11:30 to 12:00 Panel discussion (with brief presentations by other
database producers) and Q&A
12:00 to 1:30 Lunch (Sponsored by Chemical Abstracts)
Monday Afternoon (1:30 to 5:00)
US Patent Office Session (Chaired by Steve Reynolds)
Note: Speakers are subject to approval by the US Patent Commissioner
---U.S. Classification (Lou Falasco)
---PTDLs (Mandy Putnum)
---Compare/contrast PTO/Internet (to be announced)
---Overview of Federal copyright; helpdesk; w/handouts (to be announced)
---Office of Independent Inventors (Don Kelly)
Monday Evening
7:30 pm to 10pm - Wine and Cheese (Sponsored by MicroPatent)
-- Poster Sessions Chaired by Lucy Akers
Tuesday Morning, May 2, 2000
7:30 am to 8:30 Breakfast (Sponsored by Dialog)
Patent Law for Patent Searchers Session (Chaired by Sandra Unger)
8:30 to 10:00 - U.S. Patent Law for Patent Searchers (Rouget "Ric" Henschel)
10:00 to 10:30 - Break
10:30 to 12:00 Comparison of EP and US Patent Practice (Noel J. Akers)
12:00 to 1:30 Lunch
Tuesday Afternoon
Intellectual Property Management Session (Chaired by Ford Khorsandian)
1:30 to 2:30 - IBM's web-based IP-Network including new databases,
visualization tools, Derwent World Patent Index on IBM, other new features
and facilities. (Dr. Stephen Boyer, IBM)
2:30 to 3:30 Case Studies in Developing Patent Analysis Solutions (Mark
Hower, MicroPatent)
3:30 to 4:00 Break
4:00 to 5:00- Register of European Patents via the Internet (Elena Sereix,
subject to final approval by the European Patent Office)
Tuesday Evening
7:30 to 10 -IFFY Players (Amateur Theater, Directed by Nancy Lambert)
Wednesday Morning, May 3, 2000
7:30 to 8:30 Breakfast and Breaks (sponsored by Questel-Orbit)
Vendor Presentations Session (Chaired by Lucy T. Akers)
8:30 to 9:30 Dialog - New Content & Features on Dialog (Larry M. Ellis)
9:30 to 10:30 - STN (Kerry Stanley)
10:30 to 11:00 Break
11:00 to 12:00 - Questel - Competing with Free and Subscription Based
Patent Information on the Internet (David T. Dickens)
12:00 to 1:30 Lunch (Sponsored by Derwent)
Wednesday Afternoon
Database Presentations (Chaired by Sandra Unger)
1:30 to 2:30 - Derwent (speaker to be named)
2:30 to 3:30 - Chemical Abstracts - Making Patent Information More
Accessible (Kerry Stanley)
3:30 to 4:00 - Break
4:00 to 5:00 Comparison of US and IPC Classification Systems (Steve Adams)
Wednesday Evening
7:30 to 10:00 Reception
8:00pm The Need for Information Science Professionals in Today's R&D
Organization (Paul Germeraad)
8:35pm Gerard Giroud "European Perspective on Patents" (subject to approval
by the European Patent Office)
--- End PIUG 2000 Annual Meeting ---
Thursday May 4, to Friday May 5, 2000
Derwent Product Showcase
Contact Derwent to register for this meeting
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Abstracts for the 2000 PIUG Annual Meeting
Contact Terri A Dockter (TADOCKT@ppco.com) for additions and/or
corrections to the following abstracts.
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Chemical Abstracts Class - Sunday, April 30, 9 - 12 noon
"Searching for a Class of Chemical Substances in the Patent Literature"
Kerry G. Stanley, Chemical Abstracts Service
This session will look at a multi-faceted approach to retrieving
patents describing a class of chemical substances. Approaches to be
described include searching by structure for specific compounds or for
those described generically in a Markush structure. Additionally searching
by nomenclature and searching using alphanumeric fragment code systems
will be described, as well as techniques for consolidating the
multifile results. STN files such as REGISTRY, CAplus, MARPAT, USPATFULL,
IFI Claims and WPI will be highlighted using STN Express search software.
To Register, contact the CAS Training Assistant at:
Phone: 800-848-6538, ext. 3549
E-mail: wksp@cas.org
Web: http://www.cas.org/supp.html
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IFI Claims presentation
Harry Allcock, IFI Claims
Title: New Ownership - Enhancements and Expansions
IFI was purchased by Aspen Publishers, Inc. on September 1, 1999, and is
currently operating as a division of Aspen Law and Business, which is also
a Wolters Kluwer company. During the last six months we have expanded the
PATENT INTELLIGENCE AND TECHNOLOGY REPORT to include a PC-based monthly
version as well as a ten year retrospective file using the CURRENT US
classification codes and Standard Industry Codes. All company names
appearing in this Report are standardized. The IFI indexing procedures
have been enhanced to include several forms of automatic and systematic
indexing, and these changes will be reviewed. Other topics such as
structure coded input to the IFI databases will be discussed, along with
the IFI concordance of IPC to US classification.
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Patent Assignee Session
Edlyn Simmons
Monica Rieder (IFI Claims)
Mark Bauer (Derwent)
Steve Boyer (IBM)
Kerry Stanley (CAS)
Judy Hickey (Micropatent)
Thuy Ledinh or David Dickens (Questel-Orbit)
Searching patent assignees is complicated by two issues: First, companies
can file patents under a variety of names (e.g., different subsidiaries);
and second, company names can undergo changes over time, sometimes because
of mergers and acquisitions. An excellent example is Aventis, formerly
Hoechst Marion Roussel, formerly Marion Merrell Dow, etc. Edlyn Simmons
will present a chronology of this company's history of name changes. Monica
Rieder of IFI Claims, Mark Bauer of Derwent information, and Steve Boyer of
IBM will describe how their databases standardize company names and/or
assign company codes. Each will trace through how their databases have
indexed Aventis and its predecessors. They will then take part in a panel
discussion with Kerry Stanley of CAS, Judy Hickey of Micropatent, and Thuy
Ledinh or David Dickens of Questel-Orbit, with audience participation, on
issues raised and plans for the future.
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Lou Falasco is the Project Leader for Chemical Industries at the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and Past Pesident of the Patent
Documentation Society of America. He holds a BS and MS in Chemical
Engineering from Manhattan College (NYC) and Cornell University, attended
George Washington University Law School & the Maxwell School for Advanced
Public Policy, and has an MBA from Western State Uiversity. Before becoming
Project Leader, Lou was Primary Patent Examiner for Chemical Engineering at
the PTO. He's been instructor at PTO's Patent Academy, and the author of
patent classifications for Semiconductor Manufacturing; Inorganic
Chemistry; Liquid Crystallography; Inorganic Chemistry and
Electro-photography.
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Rouget "Ric" Henschel is a registered U.S. patent agent at the Washington,
D.C. offices of Lyon & Lyon LLP. Ric has a doctorate in organic chemistry
and obtained a J.D. in January 2000. He is sitting for the Virginia bar in
February. Ric's experience with patent preparation and prosecution began in
1995, when he joined the firm of Oblon, Spivak, et al, as a patent
gent. Prior to that, Ric worked in the online information industry, first
with the Central Abstracting & Information Service of the American
Petroleum Institute, then with Dialog Information Services.
Rouget "Ric" Henschel
Title: U.S. Patent Law for Patent Searchers
Ric will discuss relevant issues in the recently passed American Inventor's
Protection Act of 1999, including the publication of U.S. applications
before grant and time limits for PTO actions. Ric will also discuss topics
including recent trends in theories of invalidity in litigation, using
foreign search reports as sources of relevant documents, and document
requests that are not strictly for establishing anticipation or obviousness.
Ric would like to hear from PIUG members who have specific questions about
US patent law. He will address these questions in his talk.
You may contact Ric directly at: [RFHenschel@LYONLYON.com]
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Noel J. Akers is a British and European Patent Attorney and principal of
the firm Akers & Co., with offices in Houston, Texas and Cheshire, England.
His practice embraces all aspects of British and European patent law,
focussing in particular on prosecution and opposition proceedings before
the European Patent Office. Noel has a Master of Engineering Degree in
Chemical Engineering.
Noel J. Akers
Title: Comparative aspects of European and US patent practice
This paper will provide an introduction to a comparison between US and
European patent law and practice, concentrating on various aspects of
patent practice likely to be encountered by information
specialists. Subjects covered will include the rules of novelty, duty of
candour, file wrapper estoppel, divisional and continuation application
practice, and functional language.
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Stephen Boyer (of IBM) is credited with being the "father of the IBM Patent
Server" now called the Intellectual Property (IP) Network,
http://www.patents.ibm.com . This effort to try to aggregate the entire
intellectual property of the world into a single database and to make it
available to the world on the Internet has resulted in one of the largest
and most successful Internet sites on the web today.
Dr. Boyer was the primary catalyst in IBM's joint digital library
initiative with Thomson Publishing. He initiated the collaboration between
IBM and Thomson, which resulted in a successful venture for making more
than 2,300 scientific and technical journals available via the Internet
(now called The "Web of Science" TM by Thomson's ISI Corp).
Dr. Boyer has worked in numerous management positions at IBM, including
overseas assignments to direct IBM's scientific and technical computing
initiatives. He has evaluated IBM's investments with numerous software
startups in the area of scientific and technical computing.
Dr Boyer has several patents for his contributions in the development (and
commercialization) of two pharmaceutical drugs, which are currently on the
market, and two patents in the area of applying computer technology to
developing tools for building scientific databases. Most recently he has
led collaborations to developing Internet meta-crawling and searching
technologies to promote better ways to access information. He holds a BA
degree from Temple University and a Ph.D. from Tufts University.
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Mark Hower is a senior vice president with MicroPatent where he has
directed sales and account management in North America and Asia since
1998. He has 10 years experience in patent information. His prior
positions include Sales Director for SmartPatents, now Aurigin Systems,
Account Manager and Regional Sales Manager for Derwent Information, and was
a management consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton. He has a BA from
Bucknell University and an MBA from the Darden School of the University of
Virginia.
Title: Case Studies in Developing Patent Analysis Solutions
Mark Hower
Join Mark Hower as he presents insightful case studies that illustrate how
MicroPatent customers have created inhouse systems for effective patent
management, research and analysis that join with MicroPatent's PatentWeb.
Featured case studies include solo development, as well as custom solutions
engineered with the assistance of MicroPatent.
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Elena Sereix, European Patent Office
Elena Sereix is the official product manager of the Register of European
Patents. She has also taken over some aspects of the marketing for epoline
(the online communications between EPO and Applicants). Elena joined the
European Patent Office in 1984, in Munich. As head of the information
desks for the legal department, she gained a very deep knowledge on the
patent granting procedure and formalities. She later moved to the Vienna
office of the EPO and took over the Register, including the
helpdesk,technical developments, marketing, publicity, and training
seminars for patent attorneys all over Europe. In 1999 she moved to The
Hague and retained responsibility for the Register. Elena has a
Baccalaureat in science and is fluent in German, French and English.
Title: Register of European Patents via the Internet
The Register of European patents is now available via the Internet. This
first release provides the same scope of information as the X.25 and
dial-up version. The result screen presents data divided into different
chapters and in the same order as the present Register: bibliographic data,
search, examination, opposition and appeal.
Advantages of the Internet Register:
Besides the present search criteria (application/publication numbers,
applicant, priority number and IPC) the Internet Register will provide six
additional search fields:
-Publication date
-Priority date
-Filing date
-Inventor
-Opponent
-Representative
If the search result is more than one document, a list of 500 documents
will be displayed, sorted by publication date: the most recent documents
are displayed at the top of the list.
Truncation: Although truncation cannot be provided in this first version,
the system allows Boolean operators in the name fields (applicant,
inventor, representative, opponent)
Download: Data can be downloaded in HTML format, for local treatment.
Future developments:
Phase II
June-July 2000
The internet Register will provide the possibility of downloading legal
status results for large lists of files that have been sent to the host in
one search command.
Phase III
January 2001
A link to the public file inspection module will be implemented: Register
users will be able see the content of the file on the screen
Links to EPC Articles+Rules and IPC will be also provided.
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Dialog presentation
Based in Dialog's New York office, Mr. Ellis has been with the company
since 1991 and currently leads a nationwide team of specialists whose
primary responsibility is working with the country's largest Law Firm and
Corporate intellectual property accounts. Mr. Ellis is also responsible
for initiatives designed to maintain Dialog as the world's leading provider
of Intellectual Property content. He has addressed a number of
professional organizations on the subject of on-line searching for
intellectual property information. Mr. Ellis holds a Ph.D. from The Johns
Hopkins University.
Larry M. Ellis, Intellectual Property Market Director, Dialog
Title: New Content & Features on Dialog, US & Worldwide
Dialog remains a premier source of intellectual property information. This
presentation will focus on recent system additions such as WIPO/PCT Patents
Fulltext, enhanced US & international patent delivery and the addition of
specific US legal content. We will also discuss what recent changes in US
patent law such as 18 month publication will mean for Dialog searchers and
the forthcoming addition of tools that will allow the searcher to analyze
patent and chemical information.
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Chemical Abstracts Service presentation
Kerry Stanley is an Application Specialist with Chemical Abstracts
Service. In this position Kerry is responsible for developing training
materials supporting online searching on STN, with a focus on patent
literature retrieval, and conducts numerous workshops and
presentations. Kerry joined CAS in 1994.
Prior to joining CAS, Kerry worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 22
years. Initially, he conducted research towards developing new therapeutic
products in the cardiovascular and immunology areas. After 11 years of
laboratory research, he made the transition to information sciences. In
this role Kerry has provided information retrieval services to scientists
and patent attorneys, as well as managed the corporate information center
and developed in-house database management systems supporting product
literature and clinical records.
Kerry spent the majority of his corporate career with McNeil
Pharmaceutical, Wyeth Ayerst Research and most recently with Sterling
Winthrop Pharmaceutical. He is a graduate of Juniata College and received
a M.S. in Organic Chemistry at Iowa State University.
Kerry G. Stanley, Application Specialist, Chemical Abstracts Service
Title: Making Patent Information More Accessible
The value of online patent information is inherently tied to its
retrieval. And patent record retrieval is dependent on timely availability
and search access points. Where can you retrieve US patents the same day
they are published, or Japanese chemical patent publications within two
days of publication? Can we retrieve a record for a German 1939 patent
number? How were US Provisional application numbers incorporated into the
online files? What biosequences are described in US5952213? Are they
claimed sequences? Recent file enhancements will be described that address
these and other important questions encountered by the patent searcher.
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Stephen Adams, Magister Ltd.
Stephen Adams is the managing director of Magister Ltd., an information and
training consultancy specializing in patent documentation. He trained as a
chemist at the University of Bristol, then completed a Masters degree in
Information Science at City University London. He has worked in technical
information for over 19 years, latterly with Zeneca Agrochemicals as their
principal patent searcher. He also spent periods as the editor of
"International Packaging Abstracts" at Pira International and as a searcher
in the UK government's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food.
Title: Comparison of US and IPC Classification Systems
This session will use a sample of US and EP/WO documents in order to
compare the classification practices at several offices. The correlation
between USCl. and IPC marks will be examined, to draw some conclusions on
the relative strengths and weaknesses of each system, and the need to use
both systems when searching.
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Questel-Orbit presentation
David T. Dickens, General Manager
Director, Patent Business, Questel-Orbit
David Dickens has more than 10 years of experience in the online
information industry. During this time he has become an expert in the
various areas of Intellectual Property Information. Recently he managed the
merger of the Questel and Orbit online services, forming the new
Questel-Orbit online service. In July 1999 he was named Director, Patent
Business, responsible for developing Questel-Orbit's international patent
business. Most recently, he was promoted to General Manager of
Questel-Orbit's US operation in McLean, Virginia.
Dickens' career began with Questel-Orbit in the customer support area in
1988, and he was subsequently promoted to positions of increasing
responsibility, including sales executive, manager of customer services,
and product manager.
Mr. Dickens has a B.S. degree in Business Administration from the
University of Florida, with a minor in marketing, economics, finance and
computer science. He published an article, "The EPO ELCA Classification
System," in the March 1994 edition of World Patent Information.
Title: Competing with Free and Subscription Based Patent Information on the
Internet
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Dr. Paul B. Germeraad is currently Vice President of the Industrial
Research Institute(IRI). Paul joined Aurigin Systems in September 1998 and
is focused on the development of the company's intellectual asset
management products for the Licensing and R&D communities. Prior to joining
Aurigin, Paul served as Vice President, Corporate Research for Avery
Dennison where he directed its Corporate Research Center. Before joining
Avery Dennison, Paul held a variety of R&D and management positions at
Raychem Corporation and was director of James River Corporation's Flexible
Packaging Technical Center. Paul is a graduate of the University of
California, San Diego, with a B.A. in Chemistry. In addition, Paul holds a
Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Irvine and an LL.B
degree from La Salle University in Chicago.
Dr. Paul B. Germeraad, Vice President, Industrial Research Institute
Title: The Need for Information Science Professionals in Today's R&D
Organizations
Abstract:
With the advent of new, "easy to use" search engines and software, the
trend has been to deliver more information services to everyone's
desktop. In some companies this trend has resulted in a perception that
the need for the Information Scientist has diminished, and professional
search staff has been subsequently reduced. The view today in leading
companies' senior R&D staff is that excellent decision support and change
management requires more, not less, information science support.
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Derwent Product Showcase
Derwent will hold its annual Product Showcase, Thursday, May 4th & Friday,
May 5th at the Crystal City Hilton following the PIUG Annual Meeting. This
year's showcase has been extended an extra day to include user group sessions.
Larry Grant
Derwent Client Services Manager
703-838-5244 Phone
703-838-0450 Fax
lgrant@derwentus.com
The agenda for the Derwent Product Showcase will be published soon. As
soon as it is published, it will be included in future PIUG updates.
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