Dear Colleagues:
Please see below the announcement of the first ever recipient to be honored
with the International Patent Information (IPI) Award.
For those of you who may wish to respond with a goodwill message, I will be
glad to forward these on.
Regards
Ford
For Immediate Release…
PATENT INFORMATION INDUSTRY SALUTES MONTY HYAMS
Mr. Montagu Hyams, entrepreneur and founder of Derwent Information, is to
be honored as the first ever recipient of the 'International Patent
Information (IPI) Award'.
The news was heard today by almost 240 information professionals attending
the Patent Information Users Group (PIUG) Annual Conference in Arlington,
Virginia. Mr. Jeffrey Forman, Information Services Manager of Intellectual
Property Law, IBM, and representative of the international Selection Board
responsible for reviewing the nominations, praised the achievements of Mr.
Hyams and his unique vision in shaping patent retrieval systems. A live
telephone connection linked Mr. Hyams with the conference from his London home.
Mr. Hyams was born in 1918 and, after qualifying as a chemist, served for a
few years as a patent agent's assistant. In 1951 he left to start up on his
own, publishing British Patents Report from his house in London called
Derwent. The first real breakthrough was in 1955 with Belgian Patents
Report. Following a move to larger premises, a number of patent
documentation services were then started, culminating in the Derwent
flagship 'World Patents Index', established in 1974 as a fully indexed
online database. This is today the world's largest value-added patent
resource. Mr. Hyams eventually sold Derwent to Thomson, but remains its
Life President. Since 1985 he has been producing new publications from the
ASLIB offices in London, including 'Index to Theses', the UK equivalent to
'Dissertation Abstracts'. He is a past recipient of the CAS Herman Skolnik
Award and of the NFAIS Miles Conrad Award.
Monty Hyams says: "I am naturally very honoured to be the first recipient of
this Award which is a tribute not only to me personally, but also to all
those at Derwent who helped to develop the company into the world leader in
patent documentation service provision."
The International Patent Information Award is aimed at recognizing
individual contributions towards the advancement of patent information, the
patent information profession, and to the patent world in general. The IPI
Award is sponsored by Technology & Patent Research (TPR) International Inc.,
and is directed by a Board of eminent patent information industry
professionals representing Europe, the United States and Japan.
The IPI Award, consisting of a plaque and an honorarium of $2500, will be
presented to Mr. Hyams by the Chairman of the Selection Board, Dr. Ian
Sinclair, Head of Information Resources, Pfizer, UK, at a ceremony to be
held in Europe later this year.
>From its base in San Diego, California, TPR International specializes in
in-depth researching of both patent and non-patent information, searching of
document collections held worldwide, and provides patent intelligence
services to multi-national R&D based corporations and patent law firms.
For further information, contact:
Ford Khorsandian
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Telephone: 858-592-9084, Fax: 858-592-0045
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