“Keep Up with the
Future of Patent Information Today”

Patent Information Users Group (PIUG)
2005 Annual Conference
A Summary by Glen Kotapish

The PIUG Annual Conference, held May 21-26, 2005, in Arlington, Virginia, focused on “The Future of Patent Information – Tools and Techniques for Adding Value.” Conference speakers and forums covered subjects such as how effective management of intellectual property information can increase a company’s competitive edge; adding value to patent data and patent search reports; discerning competitive intelligence from patent information; and the paperless and other initiatives at the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO). Speakers and attendees included employees of patent offices, research firms, pharmaceutical companies and law firms from around the world. Panel discussions covered a variety of topics and gave ample opportunities for questions, suggestions, and feedback between government agency representatives, patent researchers and vendors. The conference also highlighted issues regarding effective research techniques, analysis, and interpretation of both patent and non-patent intellectual property information. A complete list of meeting topics and speakers is provided below.

TRADESHOW & TRADING IDEAS

The event also included a trade show for patent search service providers and vendors of value-added patent research, analysis, and management software tools. The tradeshow provided an opportunity for patent information research professionals to learn more about new tools being offered by vendors and for vendors to hear suggestions and feedback from their users. Sponsors and exhibitors had the opportunity to share reviews of their products and services in special segments off the tradeshow floor between speaker sessions. The product review segments were a new feature at this year’s conference. A complete list of sponsors and exhibitors is provided below.

TOUR OF THE TOWN, NETWORKING, & A REWARDING TIME

This year’s event included a tour of the USPTO’s new Alexandria-based Carlyle Campus, covering their state-of-the-art public search facility and electronic & print technical libraries.  A networking cocktail hour and dinner, hosted by CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service), was held at The Chart House restaurant in the “Old Town” section of Alexandria, Virginia. A reception and dinner at the Ronald Regan Building & International Trade Center, hosted by Thomson Scientific, also included the presentation of the 2005 IPI (International Patent Information) Award.  This year’s IPI Award winner is Ms. Edlyn Simmons of Proctor & Gamble.  Ms. Simmons received the award for the work she has done to improve the quality of patent information in the field of chemistry.  Please see www.ipi-award.com for more information on the IPI Award.

A PATENTLY AMUSING PLAYOFF

“The Solid Gold Cadillac,” a play performed by the IFFI Players during an ice cream social provided a time to take patent information a little less seriously. The play’s theme featured a parody of events that took place at a hypothetical large information products and services company.  In order to provide a balanced view of the inner and outer workings of a large corporation the IFFI Players included PIUG members from both the patent information user and provider communities.

“ATTEND” THE 2005 CONFERENCE VIA DVD VIDEO & MAKE PLANS TO ATTEND NEXT YEAR

Incase you could not attend this year, DVD videos of the 2005 conference can be ordered from the PIUG online store website, www.shop.piug.org. Please look for changes to the PIUG’s online store website address in the near future. Keep up with the future of patent information and attend next year’s PIUG Annual Conference, to be held May 20-25, 2006, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Author bio: Glen Kotapish is a patent research professional and founder of www.PlanetPatent.com.  He is president of the Inventors Network of the Capital Area, www.dcinventors.org, and a member of NAPP, www.napp.org, and IPO, www.ipo.org.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW OF THE 2005 PIUG ANNUAL CONFERENCE

WORKSHOPS AND SESSIONS

WORKSHOPS

Sunday May 21, 2005

Stephen Adams Workshop – Statistics 101 – Making Sense of Patent Analysis

Speaker:  Stephen Adams

Questel-Orbit Workshop – FAMPAT: The Invention at the Heart of the Family,

Speaker: Elliott Linder

Sunday May 22nd 2005

Micropatent Workshop – Wide IP Management & Analysis in 2005 and Beyond

Thomson-Dialog Workshop – Searching Chemical Prior Art on Dialog using DialogLink 5.0

Speaker: Ron Kaminecki

CAS Workshop – Structure Searching in CAS Databases

Speaker: John Zabilski

Fiz Karlsruhe Workshop – Structure Searching Derwent WPI using STN Express

Speaker: Robert Austin

PIUG Business Meeting

SESSIONS

Monday May 23, 2005

THE USPTO GOES PAPERLESS – Session Chairs: Ginger DeMille and Martin Goffman

 

Keynote Address: The USPTO Goes Paperless: Update and Initiatives

Speaker: Howard N. Goldberg, USPTO Patent Examining Group Director, Tech Center 2800

 

The USPTO Goes Paperless:  Legalizing the Electrifying of the Patent Process

Speaker: Jay P. Lucas, USPTO

 

The USPTO Goes Paperless: Examining Patents in Today’s Electronic Environment – How New Tools Have Changed Patent Examination

Speaker: Wynn W. Coggins, USPTO

 

The USPTO Goes Paperless: A Practitioner’s Perspective

Speaker: Carl Oppedahl, Oppedahl & Larson LLP

 

POST PROCESSING TOOLS, TECHNIQUES, AND PHILOSOPHIES – Session Chair: Ruth Umfleet

Adding Value to Search Results at 3M

Speakers: John D. Arenivear and Carol E. Bachmann, 3M

 

Shepardize a Patent: A Post Processing Example

Speaker: Richard A. Matula, Kenyon & Kenyon

 

Microsoft Excel Techniques to Extend Your Capabilities When Working with Patent Data

Speakers: Dan Phelps (speaker) and Dave Kemp, Eastman Kodak Company

 

Monday May 24, 2005

CURRENT AND FUTURE TRENDS IN PATENT ANALYSIS – Session Chair: Tony Arleth

Patent Analysis Based on Molecular Considerations

Speaker: Steve Boyer, IBM Life Sciences Group

 

Text Mining in Scientific Literature, Implications for Patent Analysis

Speaker: William Hayes, Biogen-Idec

 

Tech Mining: Useful Intelligence from Patents and Publications

Speaker: Alan Porter, Georgia Tech/Search Technology, Inc.

 

Use of Metacrawlers to Extract Patent Information Directly from Patent Offices

Speaker: Daniel Vinsonneau, founder of VTDIM

 

Panel Discussion: Where are We Headed and How to Get There?

Moderator: Nancy Lambert

 

Wednesday May 25, 2005

HOT TOPICS – Session chair: Edlyn Simmons

Full Text – Spinning Gold Out of Straw!

Speaker: Willem-Geert Lagematt, Lexis Nexis Univentio

 

Technical Disclosures: Searching for Defensive Publications

Speaker: Henry H. Murray, Exxon Mobil

 

PatCom – The Association of Commercial Patent Information Providers

Speaker: Willem-Geert Lagemaat

 

What’s New at EPO (European Patent Office)

Speaker: Dr. Nigel Clarke, EPO

 

News on the Reform of the International Patent Classification

Speaker: Mikhail Makarov, WIPO

 

UPDATES FROM PATENT OFFICES

Patent Information from the Middle East

Speaker: Mr. Samer A. Pharaon, Abu-Ghazaleh Legal Services

 

Developments in the Patent Situation in India

Speaker: Dr. Marudai Balasubramanian, Pfizer Inc.

 

Developments in WIPO Intellectual Property Digital Library and Traditional Knowledge Databases

Speaker: Dr. Mikhail Makarov, WIPO, Geneva

 

Developments in Japanese Patent Information from the NCIPI and JPO

Speaker: Mr. Nobuyuki Tanaka, NCIPI, Japan

 

Patent Information from the Eurasian Patent Office

Speakers: Dr. Khabibullo Fayazov and Dr. Petr Dzegelenok, Eurasian Patent Office, Moscow,

 

Thursday, May 26, 2005

WORKSHOPS

Derwent Workshop – Enhancing Productivity Via Integrated Solutions

Speakers: Bob Stembride, Don Walter, Denise Jenkinson

STN Patent Forum

 

TRADESHOW EXHIBITORS

Note: * Indicates sponsorship of the PIUG 2005 Annual Conference

BizInt Solutions*
http://www.bizcharts.com/

Chemical Abstracts Service
http://www.cas.org/

Elsevier MDL*
http://www.mdl.com/

European Patent Office*
http://www.european-patent-office.org/index.en.php

FIZ Karlsruhe*
http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/

Gene IT *
http://www.gene-it.com/

IFI Claims*
http://www.ificlaims.com/

IP.com*
www.ip.com

Korea Institute of Patent Information*
http://eng.kipris.or.kr/

LexisNexis Univentio*
http://www.univentio.com/

McElroy Translations*
http://www.mcelroytranslation.com/

Minesoft*
http://www.minesoft.com/

MicroPatent*
www.micropatent.com

OmniViz*
http://www.omniviz.com/

Paterra*
http://www.paterra.com/

Prous Science*
http://integrity.prous.com

Questel-Orbit*
www.questel.orbit.com

Rusch Consulting Group*
http://mms.inpi.fr

Search Technology, Inc./VantagePoint*
http://www.thevantagepoint.com/

STN
www.cas.org/stn.html

Technology & Patent Research International*
www.tprinternationl.com

Temis*
http://www.temis-group.com/

Thomson Dialog*
www.dialog.com

Thomson Scientific*
www.thomsonscientific.com

WIPS Global *
http://www.wipsglobal.com

Wolters Kluwer Health
http://www.wkhealth.com/

Wisdomain*
http://www.wisdomain.com/index.htm

Copyright © 2005 Glen Kotapish