Blog-Posts from February, 2010

The Patent Information Users Group, Inc., The International Society for Patent Information, is pleased to announce that applications for the 2010 Brian Stockdale Memorial Award are being accepted through March 12, 2010.

In addition to the award package announced previously, the winner will receive free registration in the fee-based workshops to be held at the PIUG Annual Conference:

• Understanding patent litigation: procedures and information sources
  presented by Stephen Adams, Magister, Ltd., Saturday, May 1, 2010, 1:00-4:30

• Patent Law Basics for Patent Searchers
  presented by Edlyn Simmons, Simmons Patent Information Service, LLC, Sunday, May 2, 2010, 8:00-noon

• Automating Patent Analysis: Best Practices for Reliably Exploiting Global Information Sources
  presented by Barry Brager, Perception Partners, Sunday, May 2, 2010, 8:00-noon

BACKGROUND:
This award is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Brian Stockdale who travelled extensively throughout the world imparting his knowledge of patent searching.

Brian's career encompassed positions with Derwent, SmithKline Beecham,and Technology and Patent Research International. As Brian was so well known internationally and trained many patent information professionals, his work was highly regarded. Brian always relished each new search as a challenge and loved working with the people in this industry. Brian is dearly remembered by his friends and colleagues most of all for his dry wit, keen intellect, and ease of meeting people and socializing wherever he went. As one of the world's most talented patent information search professionals, he is sorely missed. This is our tribute to his personal dedication in training colleagues, particularly those new to the field of chemical patent searching.

AWARD PACKAGE:
The award covers membership in PIUG for the current year, conference registration, standard travel expenses up to an amount not exceeding $2000, to assist the award recipient in attending the PIUG Annual Conference, an International Conference for Patent Information Professionals, and free registration in the fee-based workshops presented in conjunction with the conference. This award is generously underwritten by Thomson Reuters, Technology & Patent Research International, Magister Ltd., Simmons Patent Information Service LLC, Perception Partners and PIUG.

AWARD SELECTION PROCESS:
The award recipient will be new to the patent information profession, with less than 3 years total work experience in the field of patent information.

Alternately, the recipient will be a student currently enrolled in a college or university with a demonstrated interest in pursuing a career in patents, preferably a career in patent information.

Potential candidates must submit a short essay, not to exceed 500 words, describing their professional or educational interests, as well as their need for financial assistance with respect to conference attendance. Submissions must include the candidate's name, mailing address, phone number,fax number and email address as well as a description of his or her patent information experience and current employer/university name and address.

Essays must be sent to edlyns@earthlink.net on or before March 12, 2010. The award recipient will be notified on or before April 1, 2010. The award recipient will be recognized during the PIUG Annual Conference, which will be held at the Hilton Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore MD, USA, on May 1-6, 2010.

Conference details can be found on the PIUG website at http://www.piug.org/.

Edlyn S. Simmons
Director-at-Large
Patent Information Users Group

From: The SLA - Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division

Dear PIUG members, Please join your colleagues at the annual P&HT Division Spring meeting April 11-13 : to be hosted at the beautiful Sofitel Hotel in Philadelphia.

This years meeting will be themed: Demonstrating Your Value: What's in Your Toolbox? Follow the link (below) to view the entire agenda for our 3-day event which features :

• a CE Course on exploring Web 2.0 technologies
• a Best Practices session on Marketing Information Services & Outreach and Managing Article Archives
• a presentation by the SLA President Elect Cindy Romaine on positioning yourself within your organization

Please view the entire agenda on our Homepage http://units.sla.org/division/dpht/meetings/spring2010/spring2010main.shtml#prelimagenda

We look forward to a fun 3-days networking with colleagues and meeting new ones - we hope to see you in Philadelphia!

Kimberley
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Kimberley Poelman, MLIS
SLA PHT Division
Public Relations Chair
e: kpoelman@yahoo.com

February 18, 2010, Pune India - Gridlogics, a fast growing patent analytics solutions provider and the company behind Patent iNSIGHT Pro, announced that it has partnered with Minesoft to launch an integrated analytics solution for Minesoft customers. The integrated solution, Minesoft iNSIGHT Pro, combines the powerful analytics and visualization capabilities of Patent iNSIGHT Pro with real-time integration and retrieval of patent information and saved portfolios from PatBase.

Under the terms of the agreement, Minesoft will offer the integrated solution Minesoft iNSIGHT Pro to their customers globally. Minesoft iNSIGHT Pro will be available in three editions: Desktop, Enterprise and SaaS to cater to individuals and large organizations alike. The solution will allows PatBase users to easily replicate their online portfolios into the platform and proceed with analyzing the data to map trends, locate hidden relationships and uncover gaps and opportunities.

Minesoft iNSIGHT Pro includes deeper integration with PatBase allowing users to directly search and import results from the software. Further users and immediately lookup latest content on PatBase real-time and automatically update their local data such as families and citation. Users don't have to spend time in integrating patent content and can easily replicate their online portfolios into the analytics platform.

The representation allows Minesoft to provide end-to-end patent research and analysis solutions across the globe and complements their existing patent information product line.

"We are pleased that Minesoft has chosen our product to integrate into their current offering and thereby offer a more powerful and complete solution to their increasing base of users. We are confident that the combination of Minesoft iNSIGHT Pro and PatBase, offers a very powerful and yet cost-effective full-integrated IP research and analysis solution to patent professionals and allow them to take on more in-depth analysis in lesser time and with ease." said Manish Sinha, Director, Gridlogics.

"With the increasing volumes of patents, patent information professionals constantly are seeking ways and means to analyze and represent the information in concise and visually powerful ways. We chose their existing solution Patent iNSIGHT Pro to integrate with our products, based on its powerful text based analytics and visualization capabilities, growing market acceptance, flexible delivery models, and their excellent customer support structure built up over the last 3 years. The integrated solution, Minesoft iNSIGHT Pro, will allow our users to conduct powerful analytics on the rich content available from PatBase and cut the time to extract the answers to their questions." said Ann Chapman, Director, Minesoft. "We are excited to build upon our existing relationship with Gridlogics and to offer this powerful analytics platform to our customers globally."

About Minesoft Ltd
Minesoft, founded in London in 1996, has become recognized as one of the leading names in the patent information world, known for its innovative patent search, workflow and delivery tools and customized development projects in Intellectual Property with leading global corporations.

PatBase, jointly developed with RWS Group, is the largest single patent database in existence built by patent search professionals for patent search professionals with the fundamental premise of increasing efficiency and accuracy by searching full-text and classifications of extended patent family data. For further information on PatBase or Minesoft iNSIGHT Pro please visit www.minesoft.com, or mail at info@minesoft.com .

About Gridlogics Technologies Pvt Ltd
Gridlogics is a research driven software and services organization specializing in providing intellectual property analysis and visualization solutions to aid R&D and corporate strategy. Gridlogics products are used by leading legal services, Pharmaceutical & biotech, electronics companies and research organization across US, Europe, South America and India with more than 150 end users. Gridlogics is headquartered in Pune India and has a sales office in Delhi, Mumbai and US. For further information on Gridlogics and Patent iNSIGHT Pro please visit www.patentinsightpro.com or mail at sales@patentinsightpro.com .

Discover the entry point to global patent information! Over its fifty year history DWPI has become the world's most comprehensive value-added database of international patent information covering all aspects of science and technology. Intelligent, business critical information from more than 36 million patents and 10 million images covering more than 17 million inventions.

In this e-seminar you will learn:

What is the Derwent World Patent Index and why should I use it?
Take a tour of a typical database record.
STN basic search and display techniques Basic search examples; patent number, inventor, owner/assignee, subject/keyword etc.

Date: February 23, 2010
10:00 am, Central European Time (GMT +1, Berlin)
9:00 am, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT, London)
2:30 pm, Indian Standard Time (GMT +5,30, Neu-Delhi)
5:00 pm, China Standard Time (GMT +8, Peking)

Date: Februaray 25, 2010
8:00 pm, Central European Time (GMT +1, Berlin)
7:00 pm, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT, London)
2:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time (GMT -5, New York)
11:00 am, Pacific Standard Time (GMT -8, Los Angeles)

To register, visit
http://www.stn-international.com/e-seminars.html

Matrixware introduces CNALERT, a new alerting service on Chinese patent data. Alerts can be set up based on customers' specific search criteria and frequency. They are available 11 days after official publication and include manually translated titles and abstracts in English, Matrixware's own statistical machine-translated (SMT) full text in English and the Chinese full text.

Click here to take a look at a month's sample set of data.

Matrixware's Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) is a phrase-based system trained on bilingual aligned sentences (Chinese-English) from human-translated patents. The results are less readable than human translations, but they do provide good recall and precision and a quality proven to be better than competitors. For more information about the machine translation process, download the machine translation fact sheet

The following Chinese patent data is available from Matrixware today:

• CN full-text data in Chinese from 2008 to present
• CN full-text SMT translations in English from 1985 to present
• CN human translated titles and abstracts in English from 2008 to present

Matrixware is constantly improving on the quality of its SMT translation engines and is expanding to other Asian languages such as Japanese and Korean.

If you would like to find out more about Matrixware's Chinese data offering or have a free trial of the CNALERT service, please contact: ProfessionalServices@matrixware.com

Elisabeth Piveteau
New Business Development Europe
Matrixware Information Services

Email: e.piveteau@matrixware.com
Tel. +43 660 554 7488 http://www.matrixware.com http://www.matrixware.net

Dear ICIC friend,
Just a quick reminder that the absolute deadline for responses to the Call for Papers for the 2010 ICIC meeting in Vienna is 20 FEBRUARY 2010. If you wish to submit a presentation for consideration, please do not delay. Details may be sent in the first instance to either Harry Collier (hcollier@gmail.com) or Christoph Haxel (c@haxel.com).
The text of the Call for Papers is at infonortics.

Thank you for your attention.
With kind regards,

Dr. Christoph Haxel
General Manager
Dr. Haxel Congress and Event Management GmbH
Operngasse 20B // 1040 Vienna // Austria
www.haxel.com

Phone: +43 15857361-6070
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