PIUG 2005 Annual Conference
An International Conference for Patent Information Professionals
The Future of Patent Information - Tools and Techniques for Adding Value
Saturday, May 21 to Thursday, May 26, 2005
Hyatt Regency Crystal City
We are very pleased to announce the following Preliminary Agenda for the
Technical Sessions of the PIUG 2005 Annual Conference. Please visit
the PIUG webpage for information on registering for the meeting (
www.piug.org/2005/an05reg.html <http://www.piug.org/2005/an05reg.html>
). The deadline for the early-bird registration is March 31, 2005.
Proposed Agenda
Technical Session
Monday-Wednesday, May 23-25, 2005
Monday, May 23
Morning Session 8:30am-12:00pm
The USPTO Goes Paperless - Session Chairs: Ginger DeMille, Martin
Goffman
Keynote: Keynote Speaker Invitation Pending for a Senior Representative
of the USPTO.
"Electronic Filing of Patent Applications at USPTO" - Terri Raines
(USPTO, Project Manager Electronic Filing System)
"The PTO Goes Paperless: Electrifying the Law to Automate the Office" -
Jay P. Lucas (USPTO, Sr. Legal Advisor to Automation
Projects PCT Legal Administration)
Wyn Coggins (USPTO, Technology Center 3600 Supervisory Patent
Examiner)
"The PTO Goes Paperless: A Practitioner's Perspective" - Carl Oppedahl
(Oppedahl &Larson LLP)
Afternoon Session 1:30-5:00pm
Post Processing Tools, Techniques and Philosophies - Session Chair: Ruth
Umfleet
(Includes Q&A session with speakers)
"Adding Value to Search Results at 3M" - John D. Arenivar/Carol E.
Bachmann (3M)
"Shepardize a Patent: A Post-Processing Example" - Richard A. Matula,
Ph.D. (Kenyon &Kenyon)
Tuesday, May 24
Morning Session 8:30am-12:00pm
Current and Future Trends in Patent Analysis - Session Chair: Tony
Arleth
"Patent Analysis Based on Molecular Considerations" - Steve Boyer (IBM
Life Sciences Group)
"Text Mining in Scientific Literature, Implications for Patent Analysis"
- William Hayes (Associate Director, Research Informatics,
Biogen Idec)
"Tech Mining: Useful Intelligence from Patents and Publications" - Alan
Porter (Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, Georgia
Tech/Director of R&D, Search Technology, Inc.)
"Use of Metacrawlers to Extract Patent Information Directly From Patent
Offices" - Francois G. Koutchouk (President, CEO,
Atlantic Decisions, Inc.)
Afternoon Session 1:30 - 5:00pm
1:30-3:30 Vendor Products - Exhibit Room
3:30-5:00 Vendor Panel Discussion Where are We Headed and How to
Get There - Session Chair: Nancy Lambert
Wednesday, May 26
Morning Session 8:30am-12:00pm
Hot Topics - Session Chair: Edlyn Simmons
"Full text - spinning gold out of straw!" - Willem-Geert Lagemaat
(Univentio)
"What's New at EPO" - Nigel Clarke (EPO)
"Technical Disclosures: Searching for Defensive Publications" - Henry
H. Murray (ExxonMobil)
"PatCom - The Association of Commercial Patent Information Providers" -
Willem-Geert
Lagemaat (Univentio)
"News on the Reform of the International Patent Classification" - Dr.
Mikhail Makarov (WIPO)
Afternoon Session 1:30-5:00pm
Updates from Patent Offices - Session Chair: Stephen Adams
"Patent Information from the Middle East" - Samer A. Pharaon
(Abu-Ghazaleh Legal Services, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
"Developments in the Patent Situation in India" - Dr. Marudai
Balasubramanian (Pfizer)
"Developments in WIPO's Intellectual Property Digital Library and
Traditional Knowledge Databases" - Dr. Mikhail Makarov
(WIPO)
"Developments in Japanese Patent Information from the NCIPI and JPO" -
Nobuyuki Tanaka (National Center for Industrial
Property Information and Training, Japan)
"Patent Information from the Eurasian Patent Office" - Khabibullo
Fayazov/Dr. Petr Dzegelenok (Eurasian Patent Office)
***Please note that there will be 5 minute sponsor product reviews
interspersed throughout the technical
sessions on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.***
We are pleased to announce the following Evening Activities:
Sunday evening, May 22, 2005 - Welcome Reception hosted by Univentio.
Monday evening, May 23, 2005, there will be a dinner for meeting
attendees hosted by CAS. Please check the registration web page for
information about registering to attend this dinner.
Tuesday night play, May 24, 2005: The IFFI Players with an Ice Cream
Social during the intermission
Wednesday evening, May 25, 2005, there will be a dinner for meeting
attendees hosted by Thomson Scientific. Please check the registration
web page for information about registering to attend this dinner.
We are also very pleased to announce the following Workshops:
Sat. May 21 afternoon - PIUG Workshop with Stephen Adams as the
instructor - "Statistics 101 - Making Sense of Patent Analysis"
Sat. May 21 afternoon - Questel*Orbit Workshop - "FAMPAT: The Invention
At The Heart of The Family"
Sun. May 22 morning - MicroPatent Workshop - "Leading-Edge Solutions for
Enterprise-Wide IP Management &Analysis in 2005 and Beyond"
Sun. May 22 morning - Dialog Workshop - "Searching Chemical Prior Art on
Dialog Using DialogLink 5.0"
Sun. May 22 morning - CAS Workshop
Sun. May 22 afternoon - Fiz-Karlsruhe Workshop - "Structure Searching
Derwent WPI Using STN Express"
Thu. May 26 morning - Thomson Scientific Workshop
Thu. May 26 all day - STN Patent Forum
Please see the Workshop web page www.piug.org/2005/an05work.html
<http://www.piug.org/2005/an05work.html> to register for these and any
additional workshops.
Please visit the meeting main page www.piug.org/2005/an05meet.html
<http://www.piug.org/2005/an05meet.html> for a list of the many
sponsors who are very generously providing support for this event.
A special thank you to Ric Snead for all of his work preparing the web
updates and to Rodney Cruise for loading the meeting pages onto the PIUG
webpage.
Please visit www.piug.org/2005/an05meet.html
<http://www.piug.org/2005/an05meet.html> for further information and
updates regarding the conference.
Best regards,
Barbara Burg
Terri Dockter
Program Committee Co-chairs
Suzanne G. Robins
Heidi Z. Stone
Planning Committee Co-chairs
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