Featured Speakers at IPI-ConfEx 2005

IPI-ConfEx is proud to announce the featured conference speakers for
2005:

 

Dr. Jacques Michel and Mr. Wolfgang Pilch.

 

This conference, geared to anyone working in the field of patent
information and searching, will take place in Benalmádena, Spain and
runs 6-9th March 2005. For conference details and to register, visit
the website: www.IPI-ConfEx.com

 

Dr. Michel, most recently served as Vice President of Directorate
General 1 at the European Patent Office in The Hague. He has shaped =
the
patent information world with his leadership, innovation and
professional integrity. He led both the BACON project and the EPOQUE
system implementation, which literally changed the patent information
world. In addition he developed and implemented the Espacenet service
system to improve the dissemination of patent information. Jacques
Michel has excelled as a policy maker, consummate politician and
diplomat. Through his personal leadership, he has implemented a range
of information products and policies that have addressed issues such as
tri-lateral agreements, data conversion, quality, fulltext, and more
liberal approaches to the dissemination of patent information. His
presentation is sure to be informative, enlightening and enjoyable.

 

Mr. Wolfgang Pilch is currently a Principal Director at the EPO. He is
also the former Technical Director of INPADOC and the person most
closely attributed with founding and developing the INPADOC patent
family database. Mr. Pilch's early recognition of the importance of
global patent information and the efforts he made to collect source =
data
from the patent offices of the world and coordinate it into a patent
family system have been of great benefit to patent information users
around the world for decades. The INPADOC database remains a valuable
tool and has served as the foundation for new databases. Mr. Pilch =
also
previously worked for the Austrian Patent Office where he focused on
special projects. His presentation will undoubtedly be educational,
entertaining and illuminating.

 

We look forward to seeing you in southern Spain!

Lucy Akers

 



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