1999 PIUG Annual Meeting - Demo Room - Update #5 (part 2 of 2)

Sandra Unger (ssunger@ix.netcom.com)
Thu, 08 Apr 1999 18:49:01 -0400

Hello,
The 1999 PIUG Annual Meeting is Tuesday, April 27th to Thursday April 29th in
Crystal City, Washington, D.C. A demonstration room highlighting the new
Internet patent databases will be open during the entire meeting. This note
includes a brief description of each product and contact information.

MicroPatent will be hosting a Wine and Cheese reception on Tuesday evening at
the 1999 PIUG annual meeting. The demonstration room will be open during this
reception. This provides an opportunity for you to relax and view each of the
following products. The demonstration room will also be open Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday to allow plenty of time for follow up questions and
demonstrations.

Product --- Company
APIPAT --- American Petroleum Inst. API
BizInt Smart Charts for Patents --- BizInt Solutions
Corporate Intelligence --- Corporate Intelligence Corporation
Current Patents --- Current Patents
Derwent Patent Explorer --- Derwent
Dialog Internet Interface --- Dialog
IBM Intellectual Property Network --- IBM Almaden
IFI Claims --- IFI Plenum Data Corporation
ISTA Japanese Translations --- ISTA
MAPIT --- Manning & Napier Information Services
MicroPatent --- MicroPatent
QPAT --- Questel - Orbit
STN on the Web --- Chemical Abstracts Service (STN)

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APIPAT --- American Petroleum Inst. API

Contact Name: James K. Walters, Director
phone: 212-206-2210
fax: 212-366-4298
email: waltersj@apiencompass.org
web: www.apiencompass.org

API EnCompass offers patent searchers interested in petroleum and
petrochemical-related information three unique databases: the patent database
APIPAT, the Derwent/API EnCompass merged file WPAM, and the technical
literature database APILIT. Records in these databases date back to 1964 and
contained detailed indexing and special features for maximum retrieval and
cost-effective searching. The indexing in these files is based on the
controlled vocabulary contained in the renowned API Thesaurus. Stop by the API
EnCompass table to learn more about these useful databases and the other
products and services offered by API EnCompass.

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BizInt Smart Charts for Patents --- BizInt Solutions

Contact Name: Diane Webb, President
Phone: 714 289 1000
Fax: 714 744 1316
email: dqw@bizcharts.com
webpage: <http://www.bizcharts.com/>www.bizcharts.com
650 N. Costello Pl
Orange, CA 92869 USA

BizInt Smart Charts for Patents creates tabular reports from leading patents
databases, starting with the Derwent World Patents Index. You can customize
your reports for different clients, and select from a range of export and
printing options. The resulting reports make patents data more manageable and
presentable, supporting analysis of hundreds of records.
BizInt Solutions will be showing a Sneak Preview of Version 1.1, which adds
support for the CLAIMS database from IFI Plenum. Please stop by for a
demonstration and FREE tryout copy of BizInt Smart Charts for Patents.

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Corporate Intelligence --- Corporate Intelligence Corporation

Contact: Sales
Phone: 253-925-1000
Fax: 253-925-2000
email: sales@1790.com
webpage: <http://www.1790.com/>www.1790.com

Flip through patent front pages using PatIntelligence, the only US patent
search system with full-text back to 1945. PatIntelligence 4.1 also offers a
weekly or monthly monitoring service. Patent copies back to 1790 are available
in printed, PDF, electronic, and faxed formats. Corporate Intelligence offers
one of the most comprehensive US patent Post Issuance databases in the world.
Patents from 18 organizations are now available, too. iLibrary is a NEW tool
that allows you to easily publish Corporate Intelligence patents on your
network for use throughout your organization...at no cost.

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Current Patents --- Current Patents

Contact Name: Peter Steele
Phone: 011 44 171 631 9194 (dialing from the US)
Fax: 011 44 171 580 5646 (dialing from the US)
email: peter.steele@cursci.co.uk
webpage: <http://www.current-science.com/>www.current-science.com

Current Patents Ltd is a publishing company formed to serve the needs of those
seeking information on pharmaceutical patents. Across the entire range of
Current Patents' products the emphasis is on interpretation and analysis.
Rapid
current awareness and in-depth retrospective studies are equally important
elements in the service. Our publications will prove indispensable to research
scientists and competitive intelligence practitioners alike. Current Patents,
part of the Current Science Group, works closely with Current Drugs Ltd, an
established leader in the provision of competitive intelligence to the
pharmaceutical industry worldwide.

Our products include the Current Patents Gazette and the Current Trends in
Pharmaceutical Discovery. The Gazette, which is available electronically or by
post, is an ultra-fast alerting service providing details of newly published
pharmaceutical inventions with comments from expert analysts. Current
Trends in
Pharmaceutical Discovery is a bimonthly journal employing sophisticated data
mining techniques to analyse large data sets relating to particular aspects of
pharmaceutical discovery and development activity.

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Derwent Patent Explorer --- Derwent

Contact Name: Bob Stembridge, Commercial Manager
Phone: 011 44 171 344 2800(dialing from the US)
Fax: 011 44 171 344 2900(dialing from the US)
email: helpuk@patentexplorer.com
webpage: <http://www.patentexplorer.com/>www.patentexplorer.com

Come and see why Patent Explorer is the tool of choice for search &
download of
the full text of original patent specifications from the three leading
worldwide patent authorities, US, EP and PCT.

We'll also be showing how you can use the different outputs from Patent
Explorer in flexible and creative ways to help the knowledge management
process
for patents in your organization.

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Dialog Internet Interface --- Dialog

Contact Name: Ric Snead
Phone: 1-800-213-3580, x5018
Fax: 1-415-986-5248
email: ric_snead@dialog.com
webpage: <http://www.dialog.com/>www.dialog.com

Dialog will demonstrate their entire suite of search and retrieval products
and
information sources. Special emphasis will be placed on recent enhancements to
Dialog's intellectual property information and the new Dialog Intranet
Toolkit.
The Dialog Intranet Toolkit gives information professionals the ability to
build custom search and retrieval sites on their corporate intranet, providing
tailor-made information resources for departments, workgroups or
individuals in
their organization. More about the Dialog Intranet Toolkit can be found on the
web at:
<http://www.dialog.com/info/home/specials/intranettoolkit_us.shtml>http://w
ww.dialog.com/info/home/specials/intranettoolkit_us.shtml

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IBM Intellectual Property Network --- IBM Almaden

Contact Name: Stephen Boyer
Phone: 1-408-927-1655
Fax: 1-408-927-3021
email: boyer@almaden.ibm.com
webpage: <http://www.patents.ibm.com/>http://www.patents.ibm.com

IBM will demonstrate their Intellectual Property Network (a non-fee based
public resource) - and The Intellectual Property Network for Business - A
professionally managed - Fee based subscription service for accessing
Intellectual Property Information from IBM and it's family of IP business
Partners. We will also be available to discuss (and demo) some new features (&
enhancements) which we hope to add to our IP Network for business later this
year.

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IFI Claims --- IFI Plenum Data Corporation

Contact Name: Harry M. Allcock
Phone: 910-392-0068
Fax: 910-392-0240
email: allcock@ifiplenum.com
webpage: <http://www.ifiplenum.com/>www.ifiplenum.com

IFI will demonstrate the power of technical indexing for chemical patents and
the difference of indexing content found in the Uniterm and Comprehensive
databases. Complete information will be shown for all enhancements found in
each of the CLAIMS files as well as search aids, vocabularies and samples of
the Patent Intelligence and Technology Report.

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ISTA Japanese Translations --- ISTA

Contact Name: Alan Engel
Phone: 800-430-5727, 610-527-4500
Fax: 610-527-2041
email: aengel@intlscience.com
webpage: <http://www.intlscience.com/>www.intlscience.com

ISTA will demonstrate the use of machine translations of Japanese patents to
inexpensively scan current Japanese technology.

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MAPIT --- Manning & Napier Information Services

Contact Name: Jim LaVersa, VP Sales
Phone: 716-325-6880 x693
Fax: 716-454-3565
email: laversa@mnis.com
webpage: <http://www.mnis.net/>www.mnis.net

MAPIT (Management and Analysis of Patent Information Text) is the patent
mining
tool to discover the relationships between patents or patent sets. Key
features
to be demonstrated will include Natural Language searching with relevance
ranked results and MAPIT Visualizers: Cite-Sort (a new version), Hyperbolic
Browser, and IBM Clustering.

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MicroPatent --- MicroPatent

Contact Name: Lynn Tellefsen
Phone: (203) 466-5055
Fax: (203) 466-5054
email: ltellefsen@micropat.com
webpage: <http://www.micropat.com/>www.micropat.com

MicroPatent invites you to explore what's new at
<http://www.micropat.com/>www.micropat.com....
*World's largest digital patent archive. Need a patent document from Europe?
Japan? Canada? Download from our Standard and Special Collections of 30+
million patent documents from around the world to your PC or printer quickly
and economically.
*PatSearch FullText - The world's FIRST (and only) full text research
system to
unite specifications of the PCT, Europe, United States -- plus Japanese
abstracts -- in one, powerful and easy-to-use system. Get your live
demonstration!
*PatentKeeper - Document management system that provides enterprise-wide
access
to your custom patent collection. PatentKeeper's smart technology answers new
document requests with automatic and "real-time" retrieval of patents from our
vast collection of 30+ million digital patents. Annotate and share documents
among user groups.

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QPAT --- Questel - Orbit

Contact Name: Thuy Ledinh
Phone: 703 556 7450
Fax: 703 893 4632
email: tledinh@questel.orbit.com
webpage: www.qpat.com

The newly enhance QPAT service will include EP data and new features for more
intuitive patent searching. One of the main features is the addition of SDI
(Current Awareness Searches) for QPAT subscribers. The new QPAT will feature
multi-file searching and advance searching capabilities.

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STN on the Web --- Chemical Abstracts Service (STN)

Contact Name: Tommy Ebe
Phone: 614-447-3600, ext. 3093
Fax: 614-461-7149
Email: tebe@cas.org
webpage: www.cas.org

CAS will be pleased to present live sessions showing the new STN on the Web
browser access to the full power and functionality of all STN files and
commands. Particularly emphasized will be the fast and convenient access to
STN
patent databases, direct display of graphics and page images in the session
window, use of a browser plugin to build and search chemical structure
queries,
and browser-based "assistants" to facilitate locating and displaying patent
information.

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