Workshops at IPI-ConfEx 2005

Dear Colleagues,

For your information, below please find abstracts and dates for the
workshops at IPI-ConfEx 2005. You will note there are some very
interesting and practical topics that will be covered. This is a great
learning / update opportunity for patent information professionals, both
new and experienced, due to the presence of the key information and
systems providers as well as other hands-on patent searchers "working in
the field".

 

Please visit the web site for more details about the overall programme,
etc. <http://www.ipi-confex.com/> www.IPI-ConfEx.com.

 

We look forward to seeing you in Spain on March 6!!

 

Lucy Akers

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Sunday morning, March 6

Leading Edge solutions for Enterprise-Wide IP Management & Analysis - in
2005 and Beyond
Showcasing Best-Practice, Real-world Examples from Avery Dennison
Stuart Dodd, VP Professional Services & Account Management -
MicroPatent, a Thomson Company

MicroPatent's Aureka platform paves the way for innovative and effective
intellectual property analysis, management, and decision making. Tried
and tested for over a decade, Aureka has earned the distinguished status
of being the industry's leading system for IP portfolio management and
analysis, relied upon by Fortune 500 corporations, bio-tech startups,
licensing groups, business developers, financers, and others to aid in
strategic decision-making related to intellectual property.

Aureka empowers users by giving them actionable intelligence relative to
intellectual property - intelligence that drives build-versus-buy
decisions, in-and-out licensing evaluations, competitive-and-technical
intelligence awareness, and much more. There's a reason why large
multi-national organizations like Honeywell International and Avery
Dennision depend on Aureka for their IP portfolio management and
strategic direction - because it is reliable, effective, and proven.

Join MicroPatent's expert Aureka team as they explore the complex world
of intellectual property analysis and decision making, showcasing proven
solutions for managing this diverse terrain. In this session you will
learn:

* How to organize and analyze an IP portfolio
* Five proven techniques for reviewing intellectual

      property
* Unique ways to interpret IP results and drive decision

      making
* How to customize your IP portfolio with information

      relevant to your organization
* Simple steps that incorporate docket and other

     corporate data with published patent data
* The value of current-awareness tools for choosing the

      best strategic IP direction

MicroPatent will use its Aureka platform to accomplish the above goals,
while supplying real-world, best-practice examples from Avery Dennison
and Honeywell International. Find out how Avery Dennison has improved
its patent decisions, lowered costs, and effectively managed its
intellectual property across its enterprise during this two-hour
session. It will be jam-packed with valuable lessons and information
you don't want to miss it.

 

Sunday afternoon, March 6

"Enhancing Productivity via Integrated Solutions with Power Search,
Analytical and Management Tools Across Patent Information, Industry
Standards, and Journal Literature and Conference Proceedings: A
Practical Workshop"

Bob Stembridge - Thomson Scientific

Explore the impact that an integrated solution can have on business
processes and workload requirements. Learn tips on how to enhance
productivity via a powerful search, analytical and management tools
across patent information, industry standards and journal literature and
conference proceedings. Discover the value added content - patents,
industry standards, and journal literature and conference proceedings -
that is at the core of this solution.

Be introduced to Thomson Pharma, a dynamic, new information offering for
the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries that is being developed
by Thomson Scientific. It will provide a powerful gateway to an
unrivalled portfolio of patent, scientific, and financial information
products and services from across the full range of Thomson-owned
businesses.

See the enhancements to Derwent World Patents Index(r), especially the
fast alerting through DWPI FirstViewsm, and the work being done to make
DWPI fully complaint with the new features of IPC Version 8 when this
is released by the patent offices.

Learn too about Delphion(r) enhancements particularly the Tracking
functionality that will provide data for cost recovery and reporting --
a critical feature for customers who need to charge their clients for
work done on Delphion and for organizations that need to allocate
expenses across departments. The functionality includes:

* Detailed tracking
* Powerful reporting options
* More administrative control
* Flexible Client Reference formats
* Intuitive Tracking console

See the various options available to access Techstreet(tm) which offers
Web-based access to industry standards and specifications information
from more than 350 standards developing organizations worldwide, plus
250,000 technical books and documents. See how to order full-text
documents from publishers like ASME, IEEE, CSA, API, and many more.

Learn about additional journal literature added to the Web of
Science(r). The Century of Science initiative expands the Web of
Science to include bibliographic data from the highest impact scientific
literature published between 1944-1900, adding nearly 850,000 articles
from approximately 200 journals. The journals have been carefully
selected by the Thomson ISI editorial team based on such criteria as
citation patterns, geographic origin, and meaningful balance across
scientific disciplines.

 

Thursday morning, March 10

 

"PatAnalyst Demonstration: Search strategies, Examination process,
Workflows for the Patent Professionals"

Lionel Cosmano, Head of Online Services, Jouve
Oliver Niese, Project Manager, Empolis

 

Jouve and empolis will give a 60-minutes demonstration of the main
principles of PatAnalyst. PatAnalyst is a brand-new online service for
managing your patent information. This service, based on the original
solution of the European Patent Office, was developed keeping the
requirements and daily challenges of professional patent analysts in
mind. It provides you with all the patent information you will ever
need: 45 million of world patents, family database, abstracts and
full-text documents, as well as facsimile images. It supports
well-established workflows, proven in daily use by European Patent
Office's examiners and was created especially to support the complete
lifecycle of the professional patent examination process.

 

PatAnalyst's main features are:

* Unique integrated search and view facilities for analysing
patent documents

* Search in comprehensive online archive (45 million of
worldwide patent documents) using EPO's proven search

* Examine your patent in detail with the original Viewer used by
the EPO

* Sophisticated support for collaborative examination workflow

* Manage your confidental data on your own local PC

Updated information will be available at IPI ConfEx.

 

 

Thursday, late morning, March 10

"Competitive Analysis Using IFI's New Web-Based Tool - Produce
Easy-to-View Reports Backed by the Reliability of the CLAIMS Patent
Databases"

Jim Brown - IFI Claims

For many years, IFI has offered standardization and indexing for a
comprehensive collection of patent records. Now you can easily view the
landscape of patenting activity, using IFI's new competitive analysis
tool to sort, analyze, and present statistical information in a
user-friendly format. The new tool offers flexibility in selecting data
to be analyzed, as well as choices of formats for display and options
for automatic alerts.

In this workshop, you will learn to generate meaningful reports,
customized to your audience. We will explore the various options for
producing reports, and will demonstrate the multiple output formats. You
also will learn how the tool can be used to aid in searching of the
patent databases.

 

Thursday afternoon, March 10

"Update Report and Discussion on Patent Searcher Certification and COPS"

Stephen Adams - Chairman of COPS
Aalt van de Kuilen - Member of WON

This session will begin with a review of activities performed by the
COPS committee over the past twelve-months. The session will continue
by addressing some of the most frequently asked questions about the
proposed certification process, as well as provide the opportunity for
all sections of the patent searching community to raise and discuss
pertinent issues.




 



Received on Thu Jan 13 2005 - 00:38:19