2005 Brian Stockdale Memorial Award winner - Antoine Blanchard

The 2005 Brian Stockdale Memorial Award was presented to Antoine
Blanchard of Avignon, France, at the Patent Information Users Group
Annual Conference. Antoine will complete a M.S. level engineering
degree at the Paris-Grignon National Institute for Agronomy in
September, 2005, specializing in crop protection. He is currently
serving an internship at Sygenta Crop Protection in Basel, Switzerland,
working under Dr. Gerhard Fischer, head of Patent Information.

BACKGROUND:
This award is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Brian Stockdale who
travelled extensively throughout the world imparting his knowledge of
patent searching. Brian's career encompassed positions with Derwent,
SmithKline Beecham,and Technology and Patent Research International. As
Brian was so well known internationally and trained many patent
information professionals, his work was highly regarded. Brian always
relished each new search as a challenge and loved working with the
people in this industry. Brian is dearly remembered by his friends and
colleagues most of all for his dry wit, keen intellect, and ease of
meeting people and socializing wherever he went. As one of the world's
most talented patent information search professionals, he is sorely
missed. This is our tribute to his personal dedication in training
colleagues, particularly those new to the field of chemical patent
searching.

AWARD PACKAGE:
The award covers standard travel expenses and conference registration
fees to assist the award recipient in attending one PIUG Annual Meeting,
An International Conference for Patent Information Professionals. This
award is generously underwritten by PIUG, Thomson Scientific, and
Technology and Patent Research International.




Received on Sun Jun 12 2005 - 23:50:24