Happy Holidays,
This is to keep you informed on the plans being made for the Patent
Information
Users Group (PIUG) 1999 annual meeting.
1) The entire PIUG annual meeting has been shifted one day earlier, in
order to
reserve the best possible meeting space from the hotel. The PIUG meeting will
now be Tuesday, April 27th through Thursday, April 29th.
2) Classes will be offered on the Monday preceding the PIUG meeting and on the
Friday following the PIUG meeting.
3) Several meetings and training opportunities are consolidating into this one
meeting. This offers patent searchers the maximum benefit with a minimum of
travel expense.
4) A demonstration room will be open Tuesday through Thursday. The
demonstration room will highlight the new Internet Patent databases.
Demonstration tables have been reserved for MicroPatent, Derwent Patent
Explorer, QPAT, Manning and Napier (MapIt), and IBM Business Network. In
addition, Alan Engel (ISTA) will be demonstrating his Japanese Translation
Service and the BizInt Smart Charts for Patents will demonstrate their
software.
Location
- Hyatt Regency Crystal City
2799 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, VA 22202
Toll Free Reservations phone: 800-233-1234
Please specify that you are attending the PIUG meeting.
The hotel provides meeting room space based on the number of guests
attending the meeting.
The special PIUG conference rate is $142 per night.
The preliminary schedule is as follows (all times are approximate):
Sunday, April 25, 1999
- PIUG Business meeting (3pm to 5pm)
Monday, April 26, 1999
- European Register and INPADOC hands on training (sponsored by Dialog)
- Dialog training ( 3 hrs)
- Derwent training - to be announced
Tuesday, April 27, 1999
- breakfast (sponsored by IFI Claims)
- IFI Claims meeting (3 hrs)
---- formal PIUG meeting begins ----
- lunch (sponsored by Derwent)
- Derwent presentation (2 hrs)
- Chemical Abstracts presentation (1 hr)
- American Petroleum Institute (API Encompass) presentation (1 hr)
---- evening ----
- Wine and cheese reception
- Poster Sessions (contact Lucy Virden Itvirde@erenj.com)
- Demonstration Room - Highlighting Internet Patent databases
Wednesday, April 28, 1999
- breakfast
- INPADOC lecture (Christoph Machwirth, EPO)
- lunch
- European Patent Law for Patent Searchers (Noel Akers)
---- evening ----
- IFFY players - amateur theater - Nancy Lambert (nela@chevron.com)
Thursday, April 29, 1998
- breakfast
- European Register lecture (Elena Sereix, EPO)
- lunch (sponsored by Chemical Abstracts Service)
- Vendor Forum (organized by Richard Kurt and Ford Korsandian)
---- formal PIUG meeting ends ----
Friday, April 30, 1999
- European Register and INPADOC hands on training (sponsored by Dialog)
- STN training (3 hrs)
- Questel-Orbit training (3 hrs)
Further details of the 1999 PIUG annual meeting will be published on the PIUG
email list and registration materials will be available in the next issue of
the PIUG newsletter.
PIUG members will be given preference for registration for the hands-on
European Register and INPADOC training. The registration for the hands-on
European Register and INPADOC training will be limited to one person per
company and may be picked lottery-style from all requests for this training
(this seems the most fair). If additional spots are available, we will open
the
registration to more than one person per company.
Have a happy and safe holiday season!
Sandra Unger
PIUG Chair
Phone: (908) 7302662
Fax: (908) 7303230