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1. 2013
   1. June
      1. 08
         1. Tool Review - PatentHiveTM – A New Patent Intelligence and Analytics Site Directed At the Business of Patents

            Hello Everyone,

            Here is a summary of a tool review I just posted on my site:

            The majority of the posts on Patinformatics are directed towards the sharing and development of best practices and examples as they relate to patent analytics for organizational insight and decision-making. It has become clear recently, that...

   2. May
      1. 29
         1. PatSeer Database - New Updates and Enhancements

            Dear Members,

            We are pleased to announce significant data and feature upgrades to the PatSeer search and analysis system, many of which have been driven by professional searchers. I thought I should update you on the changes that have gone in the system in the last 3 months (Mar-May 2013):
      2. 28
         1. GenomeQuest releases the first 7,000 manually parsed documents

            This year GenomeQuest has significantly augmented its acquisition of biological sequence data found in patents. In addition to our previous automated approaches for adding sequence and patent records to GQ-Pat, we have launched a manual parsing effort.

            We have identified another 100,000 documents that are likely to have bi...

         2. Pharmacovigilance Alerts on STN e-Seminar

            STN hosts many databases suitable for the purposes of pharmacovigilance or drug safety searching.  In this e-seminar, we will look into how to make the most of the STN features and the content of some of these databases to create efficient but thorough searches. We will also look at the alert option available on STN and how...

      3. 24
         1. From Harbor Consulting's blog: Does Angelina Jolie Strengthen Myriad’s Argument?

            Does Angelina Jolie Strengthen Myriad’s Argument? 

             

            Whether for good or for bad, Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy announcement last week personifies Myriad's gene patenting case, Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics.  Depending on which background you hail from, ther...

      4. 23
         1. Patent searching, landscaping, mapping, and portfolio analytics - what are the differences?

            As the quantity and value of patent filings, acquisition and litigation increases rapidly, there has been an big increase in the number of specialists offering services around the analysis of patents, including Ambercite. Both the clients and service providers use a number of terms in relation to these services, such as&nbs...

      5. 15
         1. Questel Announcement: ORBIT Beta is available!

            ORBIT Beta is available! Discover and find the new, improved and far more efficient features of ORBIT.

            Go to beta.orbit.com using your existing logon.

            Would like a demo? Contact help@questel.com

            13

            1. Patent Office's Workshops from May 2, 2013, are available online

               Slide presentations from the two workshops by the USPTO and EPO, which were given on Thursday, May 2, after the PIUG Annual Conference, have been provided by the patent offices and are open to all interested parties to read and share:

            2. Advanced Techniques for Statistical Analyses in INPADOC on STN e-Seminar

                

               The two INPADOC files on STN, INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB, offer a great variety of patent analysis options. While INPADOCDB provides an optimized environment for application-based patent statistics, the patent family database INPAFAMDB supports statistics looking at the number of inventions. This e-Seminar exemplifies ...

         2. 10
            1. MaxVal Announces Improved Patent Family Tree Generator (“PFTG”)

               MaxVal is excited to announce the release of the improved Patent Family Tree Generator (“PFTG”). PFTG provides the user a visually appealing graphical output of the family relationships for any given patent. Given one patent number in a family, PFTG automatically identifies all the related applications and maps them ...

         3. 09
            1. Structure searching in Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) using STN Express e-Seminar

                

               In this Thomson Reuters and STN session we’ll show you how to learn efficiently search for chemical structures in the Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) on STN using STN Express. It will be both a refresher/update for experts, and a useful introduction for those who are less familiar with the capabilities of D...

         4. 04
            1. ePCT Private Services Comments

               I posed a question at the annual meeting plenary session regarding ePCT private services.  PIUG officers asked me to post the question here.  The question was whether ePCT private services will be updated to 'allow' an ePCT private services account associated with a legal entity, such as a corporation or law firm....

         5. 03
            1. USPTO Publishes Patent Term Adjustment Rule Changes

               On April 1, 2013, the USPTO published several rule changes to Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) in order to implement the changes found in the AIA Technical Corrections Act enacted on January 14, 2013.  These rules took effect immediately although the USPTO will consider written comments received on or before May 31, 2013. ...

      6. April
         1. 29
            1. STN User Day 2013 in London

                

                

               FIZ Karlsruhe and CAS invite you to the STN User Day 2013 in London!
               
               STN User Day 2013
               
               Date/Time
               Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 10:15 – 15:30
               
               ...

         2. 25
            1. Questel Workshop @ PIUG 2013 Annual Conferences

               "Soaring into Orbit.Com with perfected Search and Analysis tools"

               Join us for a refreshing look at the latest Orbit.Com developments with lunch offered at the conclusion of the session. 

               In the past two years, Orbit.Com has ...

         3. 24
            1. BizInt Smart Charts workshop at PIUG 2013

               BizInt Solutions is offering a workshop at PIUG 2013 in Alexandria on Sunday morning, 8:30 - 10am, in the Terrace East room.

               At this workshop, you'll learn how to use the BizInt Smart Charts product family - BizInt Smart Charts for Patents and BizInt Smart Charts Referenc...

         4. 23
            1. INTELLIXIR V8.0 in PIUG Annual Conference 2013

               Dear all,

               We will be pleased to see you in Arlington next week during the PIUG Annual Conference, and particularly during our Workshop on Thursday 2 May 9:00-10:00am.

               This year we will present you our new 8th version which comes with the following main features:

               • CPCs analys...
         5. 17
            1. Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst celebrates its first year of publication with free article give-away

               Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst celebrates its first year of publication with free article give-away

               Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst, the bimonthly peer-reviewed title from Future Science Group, is celebrating its

            2. Relecura Workshop at the PIUG 2013 Annual Conference

                

               Making IP Intelligence Easy and Intuitive

               Register here: http://is.gd/0up8gA
               
               Relecura (www.relecura.com) is a web-based patent and portfolio analysis platform from INDUS TechInnovations.
               
               Using a case ...

         6. 16
            1. Reminder - Searching in DWPI Chemistry Resource (DCR) on STN workshop

                

               Specific chemical substances in Derwent World Patents Index documents are readily accessible via its structure searchable database segment, the DWPI Chemistry Resource (DCR).  In this workshop, we will explore the content of DCR and demonstrate the search capabilities using a series of examples, including tips ...

         7. 12
            1. The April Issue of STNews is Now Available

               The April issue of STNews, the STN e-Newsletter, is now available. Highlights include:

               • SciSearch on STN Now Includes New Fields for Finding Grant Information More Easily
               • JAPIO Will No Longer Be Upda...
         8. 11
            1. Questel Workshop @ PIUG 2013 Annual Conferences

                

               "Soaring into Orbit.Com with perfected Search and Analysis tools"

               Join us for a refreshing look at the latest Orbit.Com developments with lunch offered at the conclusion of the session. 

               In the past two years, O...

         9. 05
            1. PatBase Workshop at PIUG Annual Conference, 28th April

                

               PatBase Workshop at PIUG Annual Conference, 28^th April

                

                

                

               We invite you  to Register now to attend the PatBase Workshop at the PIUG 2013 Annual Confe...

         10. 04
             1. Do you have the right perspective? Why searching for patents using patent codes can lead you astray

                Many patent searchers, patent attorneys, IP managers and researchers rely on patent codes as part of their patent searching process, whether this be US, IPC or the new CPC patent codes (or classifications). And while patent codes can help filter out the 60+ million patents out there, relying on them can present the very real ris...

         11. 01
             1. Searching in DWPI Chemistry Resource (DCR) on STN workshop

                 

                Specific chemical substances in Derwent World Patents Index documents are readily accessible via its structure searchable database segment, the DWPI Chemistry Resource (DCR).  In this workshop, we will explore the content of DCR and demonstrate the search capabilities using a series of examples, including tips ...

      7. March
         1. 27
            1. PIUG Room Block Extended!

               PIUG 2013 Annual Conference

               April 27 – May 2, 2013

               Hilton Alexandria Mark Center

               Alexandria, VA 

            2. A new perspective on the Google watch - and a case study on how not to miss patents already found by other examiners

               Who invented the phone watch? Apple? Google? Swatch? Dick Tracey?

               In this short blog we explore a patent owned by Swatch for a watch phone with a SIM card - and show how by building on the &lsquo...

         2. 26
            1. STN e-Seminars in April

                STN is running a series of e-Seminars in April, including -

               Setting up Alerts in the Derwent databases on STN

               In this Thomson Reuters and STN session we'll show you how to set up alerts i...

         3. 25
            1. SciSearch on STN Now Includes New Fields for Finding Grant Information More Easily

               SciSearch on STN has been enhanced with three new search and custom display fields for grant information:

               • Grant Funding Acknowledgment (/GF)
               • Grant Organization (/GO)
               • 22
                 1. Reminder - Register to Attend a Free STN Patent Forum at the PIUG 2013 Annual Conference

                    Are you attending the PIUG 2013 Annual Conference in Alexandria, VA this April 27-May 2? Be sure to attend a free STN Patent Forum hosted by CAS and FIZ Karlsruhe on May 2. Lunch will be provided.

                    Topics will include:

                    • 13
                      1. The AIA deadline is upon us - how will it effect IP Sequence Searching!

                         This paper discusses the America Invents Act and how this affects the status of intellectual property (patents) filed post March 16, 2013.

                    • 11
                      1. Fundamentals of Current Patent Law Workshop at PIUG Annual Conference

                         Simmons Patent Information Service, LLC, is offering a 4-hour workshop on Saturday, April 27, 2013, on Fundamentals of Current Patent Law. 

                         If you're new to patent information or simply confused by the different types of patents and the changes that can be expected in response to the recent changes in the laws, this w...

                      2. The March Issue of STNews is Now Available

                         The March issue of STNews, the STN e-Newsletter, is now available. Highlights include:

                         • Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) New Coverage - Indonesia
                         • 10
                           1. The Early Bird Deadline for the PIUG 2013 Annual conference ends in 5 days

                              The Early Bird Deadline for the PIUG 2013 Annual conference ends in 5 days this coming Friday, March 15th

                              Register today (www.piug.org/an13registration) for the opportunity to learn from highly respected experts who will share their expertise on such...

                         • 07
                           1. STN e-Seminars in March

                              Hello everyone,

                              STN is giving a series of e-Seminars in March, and we have decided that instead of posting for each e-Seminar, we would begin to have one post a month. The e-Seminars scheduled for March are -

                               

                              The Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) in DWPI on STN (a joint e-Seminar w...

                         • 05
                           1. Search crowded patent landscapes with ease using automatic patent filtering

                              Citation searching is becoming increasingly recognised as an important tool for patent searching, but what happens if the landscape is very crowded, i.e. there are lots of citation connections?

                              For example, consider patent US4799156&n...

                         • 04
                           1. World Patents, Mapped, with University Overlay

                              World Patents, Mapped, is an experimental service that plots the locations of applicants on WIPO patent publications. 
                              
                              Universities have long been recognized as key players in innovation. For this reason, I am adding an overlay of university locations to World Patents, Mapped. 
                              

                    • February
                      1. 27
                         1. Patent Term Adjustment Developments Since Exelixis, Inc. v. Kappos, 2012 WL 5398876 (E.D. Va. Nov. 1, 2012)

                                  On November 1, 2012, the district court for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) granted Exelixis its motion for summary judgment in Exelixis, Inc. v. Kappos (hereinafter Exelixis I). Judge Ellis, III, in granting the plaintiff’s motion, ruled that the USP...

                      2. 25
                         1. Have you considered the limitations of searching with keywords and patent codes

                            Patent searching is one of the most common activities of many of us in the patent profession, whether we are patent managers, examiners, attorneys, analysts, owners or searchers. Ye patent searching as it stands can be is imperfect, with 21

                            1. Tools for Intelligence Meeting in Nice Attracts Good Attendance

                               
                               The  II-SDV meeting takes place in Nice in April 2013 for an intensive two days. The meeting provides an international forum for those in the field of advanced search applications, data and text mining, and visualization technology. The primary focus is on tools for intelligence and...

                         2. 20
                            1. Improved patent searching using DWPI Manual Codes on STN e-Seminar

                               Join Thomson Reuters and STN for an in-depth review of the value and techniques of searching Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) Manual Codes on STN. This joint event from Thomson Reuters and FIZ Karlsruhe, will include an overview of the indexing and assignment of Manual Codes, and various practical search examples demonstrating...

                         3. 19
                            1. Patinformatics, LLC to Present a Workshop on Patent Analytics in Conjunction with the 2013 PIUG Annual Conference

                               Patinformatics, LLC will be presenting Patinformatics: The Next Generation. The goal of the workshop will be to allow participants to work through a practical e...

                         4. 17
                            1. A digital highlighter for USPTO

                               PatentServ is pleased to announce the beta release of a digital highlighter for reading patents on the USPTO. If you are interested, click here for a quick demo or click here for other tutorials.

                               The "digital highlighter"...

                         5. 12
                            1. US Pre-Grant Applications have Significant Impact on Citations Associated with Granted Equivalents – Issues with Counting Citations Part 2
                               Hello Everyone,

                               Here is a follow-up on the post from last week where I take a closer look at how prevalent the issue of patent equivalents and forward citations in the United States really is. The impact is a major one and looks to be extremely significant.

                               In a study of nearly 52...
                         6. 08
                            1. The February Issue of STNews is Now Available

                               The February issue of STNews, the STN e-Newsletter, is now available. Highlights include:

                               • Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) Search and Display Capabilities Available in CA/CAplus Family of Databases and USPAT Databases on STN
                               • 07
                                 1. Searching for uncommon sequences on STN workshop

                                    Searching for uncommon sequences can be a challenge for even the most experienced searchers. Oftentimes the only way to capture these uncommon sequences is to use the value-added features of the sequence databases on STN. This workshop will explain how to search sequences with uncommon amino acid residues, sequences that have be...

                                 2. World Patents, Mapped

                                    World Patents, Mapped, is an experimental service that plots the locations of applicants on WIPO patent publications. 
                                    
                                    Currently, this service has maps for 2012 and 2013.
                                    
                                    2013: 05

                                    1. Issues with Counting Citations – How Many Forward Citations does US8341981 Have?

                                       Hello Everyone,

                                       I have a new blog post up on counting patent citations that I thought some of you would be interested in. There is also a recent post on converting PAIR download data from Google Patents into a summary spreadsheet that you might be interested in as well.

                                       Counting patent citations is considered by many...

                                    2. Has This Patent Been Litigated?

                                       Maxval is pleased to announce the release of a new Android mobile app called Litigation Checker – Has This Patent Been Litigated? (V1.0.1). In patent research, we often would like to quickly and easily find if the patent is involved in litigation. Now, with the Litigation Checker, a first of its kind, in one click you...

                                    3. Discover the ProQuest Science & Technology database (PQSciTech) on STN e-Seminar

                                       The ProQuest Science & Technology (PQSciTech) database is a large and diverse resource representing all areas of science and technology, from Aerospace to Zoology. PQSciTech provides bibliographic details, abstracts and controlled term indexing covering a wide variety of scientific journals, patents, books, reports, and conf...

                                    4. Using AmberScore to assess patent influence - case study of leading patents from the 1980s

                                       Patent quality assessment is always a good way to start a debate in our profession. At Ambercite, we believe in the predictive power of patent networks and so have a developed a single figure predictor of patent influence, based on the number, age and strength of citations connections of a patent to other patents. 

                               • January
                                 1. 31
                                    1. Reloaded MEDLINE on STN Now Includes 2013 MeSH Vocabulary and New Fields

                                       The MEDLINE reload on STN (effective January 26, 2013) includes enhancements such as records with updated 2013 MeSH (Medical Subject Heading) indexing, the 2013 MeSH Thesaurus and four new fields.

                                       To learn more, visit CAS Product News.

                                 2. 29
                                    1. PCT APPLICATION FILING AND PROSECUTION IN INDIA
                                       India is a member of WTO and a member country in the Paris Convention and a contracting state to the PCT. Any country, union of countries or inter-governmental organizations which are members/ contracting states to the above convention/treaty/agreement are convention countries for the p...
                                 3. 28
                                    1. Numeric Property Searching in Derwent World Patent Index on STN e-Seminar

                                       We would like to invite you to the next joint e-seminar by STN and Thomson Reuters on February 13: "Numeric Property Searching in Derwent World Patent Index on STN"

                                        

                                       Join us for an in-depth review of the value and techniques of searching numeric properties in the Derwent World Patents...

                                 4. 22
                                    1. CBS, Yahoo, Google sued for patent infringement by Blue Spike - but is the patent valid?

                                       CBS Interactive is being sued by Blue Spike Inc, a company based in Florida and who have started similar actions 

                                       Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) Search and Display Capabilities Now Available in CA/CAplus Family of Databases and USPAT Databases on STN

                                       On January 12, 2013, STN added CPC search and display capabilities and a CPC thesaurus to the CA/CAplus family of databases and the USPATFULL/USPAT2 databases. CPC capabilities are already available in the INPADOCDB/INPAFAMDB databases on STN.

                                       The new CPC system was launched on January 1, 2013. The European Patent Office (...

                                 5. 18
                                    1. Matheo Patent Xe makes its revolution

                                       Matheo Software is pleased to announce a revolution in

                                 6. 17
                                    1. Webinar on Patent Search and Analysis using PatSeer

                                       Dear Members,

                                       We are pleased to announce two webinars (in US and European Time zones resp.) on Patent Search and Analysis using PatSeer. This will be a good opportunity for users to see PatSeer platform in action and to assess its search, filtering and visualization capabilities.

                                       The 60 min webinar w...

                                 7. 16
                                    1. The Cooperative Patent Classification on STN e-Seminar

                                       The Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) is a new patent classification system jointly developed and maintained by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This bilateral classification system entered into force on January 1, 2013 and replaced the European patent classifications (ECLA a...

                                 8. 15
                                    1. Facebook's new search engine "Graph Search" - and application to patent searching

                                       Facebook has just released a new search engine "Graph Search'. Essentially, this searches within your 'friends' (connections with Facebook) for data that can help your answer your questions, such as 'name me a qood restaurant liked by my friends". 
                                       

                                    2. Prior art search on patent being asserted by Nike

                                       Sportbrain is sueing Nike over infringement of its patent US 7454002. 

                                       But is the Sportbrain patent valid? This was a ...

                                 9. 14
                                    1. Using US Public PAIR - An Infographic

                                       To help analysts familiarize themselves with US Public PAIR I put together the following infographic which looks at the various tabs in PAIR and points out the portions of the system that can be used to help identify the potential value of an individual US patent application.

                                    2. The January Issue of STNews is Now Available

                                       The January issue of STNews, the STN e-Newsletter, is now available. Highlights include:

                                       • Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) Country Coverage Update
                                       • Emtree Thesaurus Update in Embase Database on STN<...
                                 10. 08
                                     1. Introducing Patinformatics, LLC and the Reboot of Patinformatics.com

                                        Hello Everyone,

                                        I wanted to share the news that I have relauched patinformatics.com and created an advisory firm, Patinformatics, LLC to support a business in the area of patent analytics. The following is from a blog post I wrote on the new site describing some of the ideas I have for the business:

                                        With the 10th...

                                     2. Latest USGENE BLAST Search Portal enhancements!

                                        Dear Collegues,
                                        
                                        Over the last few weeks two important detailed enhancements have been made to the USGENE BLAST Search Portal Evaluate tab results table. We invite you to try out the new features and let us know what ...

                                 11. 02
                                     1. Introduction to Derwent World Patents Index on STN e-Seminar

                                        Discover the entry point to global patent information! Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) is the world’s most comprehensive value-added database of international patent information covering all aspects of science and technology.

                                        In this e-seminar you will learn:

                                        ■What is the Derwent World Patent Index and why s...

                         7. 2012
                            1. December
                               1. 18
                                  1. Thomson Innovation® full-text link options are now available in the USGENE® BLAST® Search Portal!
                                     Thomson Innovation® full-text link options are now available in the USGENE® BLAST® Search Portal!
                                     
                                     SequenceBase ...
                                  2. Apple patent for hand gesture recognition outplayed by gaming patent

                                     Apple's patent US7877707 covers a touch pad capable of recognising hand gestures.

                                     
                                     
                                     But is this patent valid? In 14

                                     1. Version One of New STN - The Foundation for the Future of Patent Searching

                                        The STN partners, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and FIZ Karlsruhe, are pleased to announce that Version One of the new STN platform is now available in beta for fixed fee customers. This is the first major milestone in a multi-year initiative to create the next generation of STN, the choice of patent experts.

                                        To learn m...

                                  3. 13
                                     1. Litigation Databank - New Version Released

                                        MaxVal offers a comprehensive collection of Patent Litigation Data for companies and law firms to make intelligent decisions about patent disputes; proactively monitor and query whether patents of interest have been litigated; and gain analytical insights on plaintiffs, defendants, filing trends, courts, etc. We also provide IP ...

                                  4. 12
                                     1. Are Surfcast flying too close to the Sun? A prior art search for a patent being asserted against Microsoft's Windows 8 tiles

                                        New York based Surfcast are suing Microsoft over the tiles used in the recently released Windows 8 products, and which are also seen in tablets and smartphones incorporating the latest Windows operating system.
                                        
                                        But the patent examiner for the Surfcast patent find all of the relevant prior art? In this 11

                                        1. The December Issue of STNews is Now Available

                                           The December issue of STNews, the STN e-Newsletter, is now available. Highlights include:

                                           • Enhanced CASREACT Coverage on STN - A New Source of Prior Art
                                           • INPADOCDB Database on STN - The New Cooperative Patent Classification Is Now Available
                                           • Reload of IMSPATENTS - Effect on SDIs, Manual Profiles and Saved...
                                     2. 10
                                        1. Tired of searching through long lists of often irrelevant patents?

                                           In that case, we invite you to register for any of our webinars held at  three different time slots on December 17th/18th – further information about available timeslots and registration details are found 07

                                           1. CAS Registers 70 Millionth Substance Just 18 Months After Reaching 60 Millionth Milestone

                                              Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world's authority for chemical information, announced today a major milestone for the CAS REGISTRY, the largest collection of publicly disclosed chemical substance information. CAS scientists registered the 70 millionth substance from a patent application submitted to the Korean Intellectual...

                                        2. 06
                                           1. How to search for patents without using keywords or patent codes - Google glasses case study using AmberScope

                                              Is it possible to search for patents without using keywords or patent codes? 
                                              
                                              In this case study found here, my colleague looks at US patent 7,631,968, recently purchased by Go...

                                        3. 03
                                           1. ReaxysFile - upcoming STN e-Seminar series in December 2012

                                              There will a series of three e-Seminars in December 2012 on the reloaded and enhanced ReaxysFile on STN. 

                                              1) ReaxysFile on STN: Significantly more content and further enhancements
                                              2) Physical Property Searching in ReaxysFile on STN
                                              3) Reaction Searching in ReaxysFile on STN

                                              Each e-Semina...

                                     3. November
                                        1. 27
                                           1. World patent Information journal - latest

                                               

                                              No. 1&nbs...

                                        2. 26
                                           1. INPADOCDB/INPAFAMDB on STN: new Cooperative Patent Classification available

                                              The new Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) is now available in the INPADOCDB/INPAFAMDB databases on STN.

                                              From week 47/2012 onwards, CPC  data are provided for new and updated patent documents of the INPADOCDB/INPAFAMDB databases. Users have full access to all details of the CPC including CPC codes and attributes....

                                           2. Free beta trial launched for AmberScope - unique patent searching tool

                                              Ambercite and its associate Griffith Hack are proud to announce that the beta trial of AmberScope is now underway.  

                                              Amberscope is overviewed in the short video found23

                                              1. Scipat Offers Unique On Demand Human Patent Translations through Online Platform

                                                 To meet the growing need of companies and legal professionals for patent information, Scipat has developed a rapid, on-demand human patent translation service. Christa Deinum, CEO of Scipat: “We can help patent attorneys and other patent professionals save time and increase their busines...

                                              2. Is the patent literature a network of ideas?

                                                 Steven Johnson's book "Where ideas come from" has been well received in many circles, as has a r...

                                           3. 21
                                              1. “Derwent Patent Citation Index on STN – The perfect companion to DWPI for serious patent information users.“ e-Seminar

                                                 
                                                                              

                                                 We would like to invite you to the next joint e-seminar by STN and Thomson Reuters on December 4: “Derwent Patent Citation Index – ...

                                              2. Ownership and Assignment of Indian Patent Applications
                                                 Registration of Ownership of Patents - Dr. V. Shankar

                                                 This post first appeared in spicyipindia.blogspot.in on Monday, October 29, 2012.

                                                 Indian patent law recognizes a patent as having the character of an asset with laws applicable according to any “movable property&r...
                                           4. 15
                                              1. Opportunities to Extend Patent Term Abound as another PTA Rule Bites the Dust

                                                 Earlier this month, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia struck down a significant Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) provision (37 C.F.R. §1.703(b)(1)) that limits the PTA  granted to a patentee when a patent issues more than three years after the date of filing of its application. The court ruled th...

                                           5. 12
                                              1. PatSeer Oct’12 release brings many powerful updates to the PatSeer platform

                                                 Dear Members,

                                                 Gridlogics is excited to announce a new release of PatSeer™ that brings many powerful new capabilities to the fast growing patent research platform. The new release aims at providing industry grade data coverage and quality along with enhanced set of tools that help you reduce the clutter and take infor...

                                           6. 06
                                              1. The November Issue of STNews is Now Available

                                                 The November issue of STNews, the STN e-Newsletter, is now available. Highlights include:

                                                 • New Japanese Full-Text Patent Database Now Available on STN
                                                 • Emtree Thesaurus Update in Embase
                                                 • MARPAT Backfile Expansion Update

                                                 To view this month's issue and to subscribe, visit 05

                                                 1. Search Q's...Answered

                                                    We often post search-related blogs onto our blog site: www.sequencelistingrequirements.com.  This is one of them... 

                                                     

                                                    Common Search Database Questions...Answered  

                                                    We've seen a sharp increase in our search service offering over t...

                                                 2. Searching patent office classifications on STN e-Seminar

                                                    This e-Seminar focuses on making efficient use of the wealth of patent classification systems available in STN patent databases, including the Derwent World Patent Index (DWPI), CAplus and INPAFAMDB. Learn how to refine or expand your STN search strategies for optimum results, using International (IPC), Eur... Patent to the People: Applying Crowdsourcing to the Patent Lifecycle From funding a new technology startup to finding the best new restaurant in the city, crowdsourcing has impacted how we locate information, make decisions, and it can make seemingly impossible tasks a reality.  For example, websites such as Subway maps, Google Maps - and patent lists Many of us in the professional would be keen traveller, and for keen travellers subway maps can provide an endless source of fascination. My personal view is that the Tokyo subway map is the... October 31 MaxVal introduces AIA Services MaxVal's third party submission solutions allow you to take advantage of AIA’s new pre-issuance reference submission and post-grant review by monitoring the status of applications or patents, providing prior art searches, and submitting documents to the USPTO. Third Party Submissions... 25 Structure searching in Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) using STN Express e-Seminar Join us on November 8 to learn how to efficiently search for chemical structures in the Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) on STN using STN Express. It will be both a refresher/update for experts, and a useful introduction for those who are less familiar with the capabilities of DWPI on STN. The session will cover two specific t... Beta testers wanted for new patent search engine AmberScope Some readers might remember my Ambercite presentation in the PIUG conference in Denver 2012, and my colleague's George Mokdsi's presentation at the 2011 PIUG conference. Since then we have been working on applying the Network Patent Analysis (NPA) principles to patent searching, and this is starting to pay dividends. Our n... 18 Register to Questel free workshop at the PIUG NE 2012 Conferences! What's New with Orbit.com: A Focus on Patent Analysis and Landscaping Wednesday, October 24 – 9:00am - 11:00am Room: Vanderbilt Registration and detailed agenda are available from the Questel registration page (free). Scientific Literature and the Markush Developments from Thomson Reuters Advances in Scientific Literature and the Markush Question from Thomson Reuters; Non-Patent Literature and Markush Searching I.  Technology Intelligence from Non-Patent Literature (NPL) Non-patent literature (NPL) plays an important role in patent-related research. Databases that collect key multidisciplin... 10 Search Technology/VantagePoint Workshop at the PIUG NE 2012 Conference Plan to attend our free 1-hour workshop, Wednesday, October 24, 9:00 AM, in the Segal Room. We will introduce VantagePoint - BizInt Smart Charts Edition (VP-SCE), a new product developed exclusively for users of BizInt Smart Charts. In this workshop you will learn how to: Easily move your patent and drug p... 07 Current awareness searching in STN patent databases e-Seminar A current-awareness alert (SDI) is a useful tool for the surveillance of specific research topics, competitors, inventors, patents, and legal status information. In this session, we will review the searching skills needed to identify relevant information in a consistent and periodic manner and how to receive this information in ... 04 PatBase Express and Orbit.com full-text link options are now available in the USGENE BLAST Search Portal! Dear USGENE Searcher, PatBase Express and Orbit.com full-text link options are now available in the USGENE®&n... September 27 Expanded Embase Database Coverage on STN Includes More Biomedical and Pharmacological Content from Conferences On September 22, 2012, STN enhanced Embase coverage to include Conference Abstracts and Conference Reviews, including a backfile of more than 800,000 records. Conference Abstract records include abstracts, full indexing and controlled terminology from the Emtree thesaurus. Conference Review records include abstracts, key topics ... 26 FIZ AutoDoc : The simple solution from search results to full-text documents e-Seminar Full-text documents can be easily ordered via FIZ AutoDoc which replaced the CAS Document Detective Service in 2011 as the default document delivery service for all STN and CAS products. All over the world many governmental and commercial organizations of all sizes order documents via FIZ AutoDoc. The service is available ... 24 Hotel Room Guarantees Expire This Week - Please Register by Sunday, Sept 30, 2012   PIUG 2012 Northeast Conference Monday, October 22 to Friday, October 26, 2012 14 MaxVal - Patent Marker (New UI) Patent Marker provides an online environment for patentees and the public to mark products with patent numbers and to search for patent related details about products. (Click here for a free sign up<... 13 What the Apple-Samsung Case says about America’s Patent System – Paula Hane Check out this item from InfoToday's NewsBreak. The effect of patent trolls are also discussed. "Apple-Samsung Case Highlights America’s Troubled Patent System" by Paula J. Hane 12 The September Issue of STNews is Now Available The September issue of STNews, the STN e-Newsletter, is now available. Highlights include: Predict When CAS REGISTRY Hits 70 Million Organic and Inorganic Substances! USAN 2012 Reload Now Available on STN! Get More Current Reaction Information with Daily Updates to CASREACT on STN ... ReaxysFile on STN - Significant more content and further enhancements e-Seminar ReaxysFile on STN has been reloaded and information on several million substances has been added including inorganic substances and substances deriving from patents. Now the database has the same content as Reaxys®. Enhancements include additional fields and formats for displaying patent content or data for meeting the REACH... 11 Register to Questel free workshop at the PIUG NE 2012 Conferences! Come join us at this workshop, Wednesday, October 24th from 9AM to 11AM for an eye-opening look at the latest version of Orbit.Com! What's New with Orbit.com: A Focus on Patent Analysis and Landscaping Questel has just released its new IP Business Intelligence mo... 06 New PIUG Member Benefit Dear PIUG Community, It is my pleasure to announce that the Future Science Group now offers PIUG members a discount rate for a personal annual subscription for the journal publication Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst.  For details concerning the discount... 05 Register to Attend a Free STN Patent Forum at the PIUG 2012 Northeast Conference While you're in New Brunswick for the PIUG 2012 Northeast Conference, join your hosts from CAS and FIZ Karlsruhe for a free STN Patent Forum on October 22. Lunch will be provided. Topics include: What's New? ReaxysFile on STN Cross-file Patent Searching on STN Biomedical File... 04 Searching for siRNA and miRNA in STN patent databases e-Seminar RNA interference (RNAi) is a system within cells that takes part in controlling which genes are active and how active they are. Two types of small RNA molecules, Micro RNA (miRNA) and Small Interfering RNA (siRNA), are central to RNAi. This e-Seminar will: ■Review indexing and patent classification search appro... August 29 USPTO Announces Rule Change in PTA Relating to Appellate Review PTA Basics Patent Term Adjustment (PTA), with its provisions codified at 35 U.S.C. §154(b), extends the term of a patent for certain examination delays at the USPTO. The non-overlapping sum of three kinds of Office delays, referred to by practitioners by their letter designations, A, B, & C... 24 Setting Up Alerts in the Derwent databases on STN Join Thomson Reuters and STN on September 13th for free webinars. We’ll show you how to set up alerts in DWPI and DPCI on STN so you can monitor competitor and industry patent activity, easily and efficiently. Plus, you’ll gain insight how DWPI and DPCI records can evolve over time and which search options give you e... 22 Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst - issues 1-3 are free-to-access until end of August The peer-reviewed journal Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst is primarily dedicated to publishing high-impact reviews discussing patents of relevance to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical R&D---from small molecules and biologics, to medical devices and nanotechnology inventions… and more. The journa... 17 Committee on CAS invites feedback ACS Joint Board-Council Committee on Chemical Abstracts Service (CCAS) Invites Feedback from Board Users PUIG Board users are invited to contact members of the ACS Committee on Chemical Abstracts Service (CCAS) if they have questions or concerns regarding CAS services to the pate... 01 USGENE Celebrates Fifth Anniversary - SPECIAL PROMOTION OFFER! USGENE Celebrates Fifth Anniversary - SPECIAL PROMOTION OFFER! The SequenceBase Corporation is proud to recognize the fifth anniversary of the launch of the USGENE database. In order to show our appreciation to the user community, and in conjunc... July 31 DESIGN PROTECTION IN INDIA Following the article on US Design Patents in our October 2011 newsletter, this month we discuss the  protection of industrial designs in India. Designs are protected un... The ProQuest Science & Technology (PQSciTech) database is now available on STN! PQSCITECH is a valuable multidisciplinary resource of over 27 million documents in all areas of science and technology from engineering to life science. The database covers 1962 to the present and is updated monthly. Sources are journals, books, reports, patents, and conference proceedings. PQSCITECH is a merger of 25 ST... 29 Weekly Patent Info Update - July 27 2012 - In this, our last weekly Coalition Update: Link (Members Only) From the House - - Postponement of the meeting to discuss the nefarious WIPO transfer of technology to rogue regi... 27 Legal Status Information on STN Databases e-Seminar During the granting procedure of a patent several legal events are published by patent offices. Legal status information is highly relevant to determine, for example, if a patent is still in force, if opposition is filed, if the owner has changed etc. This presentation covers the different sources on STN providing legal status i... 23 PATENT VALUATION - MONETIZING YOUR IDEA INVENTORY CRAFITTI CONSULTING  Offers one-day workshop on PATENT VALUATION - MONETIZING YOUR IDEA INVENTORY  Using Scenarios, TRIZ, SocialCitNet and AHP TO REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP - EMAIL: info@crafitti.com or navneet.bhushan@crafitti.com (look forward to meeting you ... 22 Weekly Patent Info Update - July 20 2012 - In this week's Coalition Update: Link (Members Only) From the House - - Big meeting about the ITC entitled "The International Trade Commission and Patent Disputes". F... 19 Free GenomeQuest Trial PIUG...GenomeQuest wants your input!  Take this short survey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GQIPPIUG) and in return we'll give you a free GenomeQuest trial and you'll be entered into a drawing for an iPad!  We look forward to hearing from you!... White House invites feedback on IP enforcement In case you missed this (I know I did until just now), there are still a few days left to respond to the invitation from the White House to provide input to the Administration’s new strategy for intellectual property enforcement. The overarching objective of the strategy is to improve the effectiveness of the U.S. Govern... 16 Weekly Patent Info Update - July 13 2012 A handful of Documents to report on today! In this week's Coalition Update: Link (Members Only) From the Senate Big meeting on 'Oversight of the Impact on Competition of Exclusion ... 13 The July Issue of STNews is Now Available The July issue of STNews, the STN e-Newsletter, is now available. Highlights include: Keep current with weekly SDI packages now available on STN RSS delivery of SDIs enhanced with hit term highlighting More frequent updates to the Emtree Thesaurus in Embase on STN provide earlier access to the ... 12 Latest USGENE BLAST Search Portal Enhancements Dear Collegue, Over the last few weeks a number of important enhancements have been made to the USGENE BLAST Search Portal, based directly on c... 03 Summit gives birth to common EU patent This article describes the agreement reached among European leaders on June 29, 2012. France, Germany, and the UK splits their differences by making Paris the headquarters of the new Unitary Patent Court with about 60% of the workloa... 02 Seminar on Advanced IP Concepts (Stephen Adams) Parthys Reverse Informatics is excited to be hosting the First Seminar on Advanced Intellectual Property Concepts July 5, 2012 at 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM IIT Madras Research Park - Auditorium, Chennai, India http://www.reverseinform... Weekly Patent Info Update - June 29 (My apologies for the delay in posting the update!) In this week's Coalition Update: In the halls of Washington -  House Judiciary beat their collective chests about IP in China and WIPO in Iran in N. Korea. Another House committee had the USPTO provide economic num... June 29 Searching Sequences on STN e-Seminars Two different searching sequences on STN e-Seminars are going to be presented in July. The first e-Semianr is entitled Sequence Basics. In this e-Seminar, learn how to most efficiently use the various sequence searching resources on STN. Topics will include: ■Introduction to STN sequence databases ... 28 MaxVal - Patent Assignment Alert MaxVal is pleased to announce its next offering - Assignment Database and Alerts.  The Assignment Database offers a structured environment to analyze IP assets purchased or sold by an entity.  The Alerts offer an effortless way to monitor patent transactions. Using this tool, you can:  • Searc... 25 Keep Current with Weekly SDI Packages Now Available on STN A new weekly SDI package on STN increases the timeliness of your current awareness and makes it easier to meet government reporting requirements for pharmacovigilance. An SDI package combines multiple SDI result sets from different databases into a single, convenient delivery, regardless of individual database update sch... Be an Early Bird and Save! Early booking price for the 2012 ICIC meeting in Berlin expires 30 July 2012 Be an Early Bird and Save! Early booking price for the 2012 ICIC meeting in Berlin expires 30 July 2012 Dear Colleague, Just a reminder that the early booking price for the 2012 ICIC meeting in Berlin this October expires 30 July 2012. If you are planning to attend the me... 24 Business Intelligence referrals I need the contact information for a few business intelligence professionals to pass onto a law firm client. They are in pre-litigation and want to identify innovators that worked for a small number of companies about fifteen years ago. This is definitely not my thing and I've told them I'd help find experts. Please send... 23 Weekly Patent Info Update - June 22 In this week's Coalition Update: In the halls of Washington -  Director Kappos was at a Senate meeting. Lots of talk about pendency, not much about quality." He'll be speaking with the House next week to speak to International IP Enforcement. On Dulaney Street i... 22 Spring 2012 STN Patent Forum presentations now available Hi everyone, The talks that were presented at the 2012 Spring STN Patent Forums are now available. The five presentations that were given are - What's New on STN Effective Property Searching on STN Biomedical Files on STN DWPI SM Tips and Tricks Structure Search Workflow for Pat... 21 Call for papers - Patenting Trends articles The peer-reveiwed journal, Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst, which launched in early 2012, is primarily dedicated with publishing high-impact reviews discussing patents of relevance to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical... 18 LexisNexis Webinar -- "New Ways to Challenge Patents under the AIA" Fri., June 22, 2012 Noon ET LexisNexis offers a free Webinar: "New Ways to Challenge Patents under the AIA," Friday, June 22, 2012, NOON ET (9 A.M. PT) (1 hour) The AIA has created many new opportunities to challenge both pending and recently granted patents, including pre-i... 15 Weekly Patent Info Update - June 15 In this week's Coalition Update (much fuller than last week): In the halls of Washington -  Director Kappos has a busy June schedule. A couple of opportunities for him to get yelled at by the House and Senate members while they generate sound bites. On Dulaney Street in the 223... 11 Weekly Patent Info Update - June 8 In this week's Coalition Update: Not one heck of a lot happened! Sorry for the let down if you've been waiting on the edge of your seat for this past week's update. There were a minor few things, please read all about them here: ... 08 World Patent Information journal - latest The latest issue of the journal Volume 34, Issue 2 (June 2012) has just been published. It includes the paper by Stephen Adams: "Survey of PCT search reports and the importance of the interne... 05 Searching Numeric Properties in Derwent World Patents Index on STN e-Seminar In April STN launched the Numeric Property Search feature in the Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPISM) databases on STN. Now it is possible to search all fields with English language text (English title(s), abstract(s), and claim(s)) for numeric values of 55 properties in over 1400 unit variants and in combination with vario... 04 The June Issue of STNews is Now Available The June issue of STNews, the STN e-Newsletter, is now available. Highlights include: A new version of STN Express, Version 8.5.1, is now available DOIs are now searchable in CA/CAplus Recent coverage and display enhancements in INPADOC  To view this month's issue ... Congratulations to Roy Zimmermann, winner of the AIIP membership drawing! AIIP, the Association of Independent Information Professionals has announced the winner of the free membership offered at its exhibit table at the recent PIUG Annual Conference.  The winner is Roy Zimmermann of Zimmerman Online Research, who will become a Full member of AIIP for  the next year. 02 Weekly Patent Info Update - June 1 In this week's Coalition Update... From the Hill: Not a heck of a lot. Get used to it. Elections are coming. From the USPTO: Congratulations to our friend and fellow PIUG member Jon Cavicchi up in New Hampshire! His libra... 01 Scheduled Upgrade to the DWPI Production Servers Owing to the ever increasing volumes of patent data received by Thomson Reuters, we will be upgrading the DWPI server during the week of 2-8 June 2012 to extend space and improve system performance. This will have an impact on DWPI updates 201236 and possibly 201237. Whilst we do not anticipate a delay in the despatch of... All Things Patent - Digital Wallet Patent Landscape Primer Digital wallet is a technology that facilitates fast and secure electronic transactions. This technology enables and enhances online and physical transactions using computers and portable devices like smart phones, or dedicated digital wallet devices. In general, digital wallet technology can be broadly classified into t... May 26 Weekly Patent Info Update - May 25 In this week's update: On the Hill - Whole lot of nothing since folks are in recess. At the USPTO - Clean Tech Partnership Meeting scheduled. Detroit office has an official opening date. Other Places - Administration (White H... 25 Get the Latest Version of STN Express, Version 8.5.1 A new version of STN Express, Version 8.5.1, is now available. This maintenance release provides software updates and completes the integration of new full-text databases AUPATFULL, CANPATFULL and CNFULL on STN. For details and to download the latest version, visit 24 Patent Family Tree - Another Free Tool from MaxVal MaxVal is glad to roll out its next version of the Patent Family Tree tool. 22 DOIs Now Searchable in CA-CAplus on STN Now you can search and display Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for approximately 12 million records in the CA/CAplus family of databases on STN, including 75 percent of journal articles that have already entered CAplus in 2012. DOIs provide a permanent and unique identifier for retrieving full-text publications. For mo... INPAFAMDB on STN - Easy recipes for relevant results e-Seminar INPAFAMDB – the International Patent Family Database – is a bibliographic patent family database, covering the full spectrum of patent technologies for more than 90 patent issuing authorities. INPAFAMDB features a one-record-per-patent-family file design, making it an ideal multi-file search companion to CAplus and D... 21 PIUG exhibited at the recent AIIP 26th Annual Conference The AIIP-PIUG Partnership agreement enabled PIUG to exhibit at the recent PIUG 26th Annual Conference in Indianapolis, May 3-6, 2012. 19 Weekly Patent Info Update - May 18 In this week's Coalition IP Updates (Plural): On the Hill: Hearings on the AIA were held. Here is a blow by blow of the testimonies:  Link #1  18 Register to Attend a Free STN Patent Forum in Cambridge, MA Please join your hosts from CAS and FIZ Karlsruhe for a free STN Patent Forum on June 5 in Cambridge, MA. Lunch will be provided. Topics include: What's New? Effective Property Searching on STN Biomedical Files on STN DWPI Tips and Tricks Structure Search Workflow for... 16 USPTO seeking comments on XML submissions for nucleotide or amino acid sequences Everyone who attended the Annual meeting heard Marla Grossman speak to the USPTO's desire to switch applicants over to XML submissions and shift the data entry burden. They are moving forward, or at least revving up to do so. The Coalition has brought to our attention a notice in the Federal Register today soliciting comments on... 12 Weekly Patent Info Update - May 11 In this week's Coalition IP Update: On the Hill: During a Judiciary Committee meeting, "Sen. Leahy (D-VT) pressed Ms. Espinel about recent concerns over “patent wars” unfolding at the ITC and how patent litigation could stifle innovation." - When Leahy gets involved, so... 10 Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst - issue 2 now free to access online We are delighted to announce that issue 2 of Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst has now been published; both this and the launch issue are free-to-access online. Issue 1: http://www.future-science.com/toc/ppa/1/1 Issue 2: 08 May Issue of STNews is Now Available The May issue of STNews, the STN e-Newsletter, is now available. Highlights include: RSS Delivery for STN Alerts (SDIs) is Now Available on STN DWPI Databases Enhanced with Numerical Property Search Feature CAS Expands Global Patent Coverage - The Eurasian Patent Organization Becomes 63rd Autho... 07 Patent Searching on TV tomorrow night From the USPTO Weekly sent out to employees: USPTO.gov Goes Hollywood Tomorrow Night The USPTO homepage and patent search pages will appear in tomorrow night’s episode of NCIS, television’s top-rated scripted drama, as forensic specialist  05 Weekly Patent Info Update - May 4 PIUG'rs - As many of you know from Tony's regular uploads of Patent Information Summaries, we are associate members of the Coalition for Patent and Trademark Information Dissemination. What does that mean? Well, it means we are members of an organization that collects and summarizes every single tiny little change in the... 03 MaxVal's Free Patent Tools (New tool - Reference Annotator) MaxVal is happy to roll out the next free patent tool – Reference Annotator. This free web-based tool can be used to mark-up a document (patent/application) by searching for keywords and highlighting the results of each keyword search in a... 01 Improved patent searching using DWPI Manual Codes on STN e-Seminar Join us for an in-depth review of the value and techniques of searching Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) Manual Codes on STN. This joint event from Thomson Reuters and FIZ Karlsruhe, will include an overview of the indexing and assignment of Manual Codes, and various practical search examples demonstrating their use within DWP... April 30 All Things Patent Apple Sued Over Touchscreen Patent\ Therasense Patent Held Unenforceable On Remand\ →&h... 26 BizInt Smart Charts and VantagePoint workshop at PIUG 2012 If you are attending PIUG 2012 in Denver, please consider attending the "Analysis & Visualization with BizInt Smart Charts and VantagePoint" workshop on Sunday morning, 9-11 am, in the Nat Hill room. At this workshop, you'll learn how to use the latest features in BizInt Smart Charts for Patents and BizIn... 25 RSS Delivery for STN Alerts (SDIs) is Now Available on STN STN alerts (SDIs) can now be delivered by RSS feeds. New RSS alert delivery on STN: Allows you to easily distribute STN alert results throughout your organization to support critical research and business decisions. Supports your workflow by seamlessly integrating with most commercially available RSS rea... 24 Invitation to Dolcera Workshop - Blitz Classify How to classify 5,000 patents in a day... accurately Dolcera presents the workshop “Blitz Classify: How to classify 5,000 patents in a day... accurately” at the 2012 PIUG conference on Thursday, May 3rd, at 10:30 am. Dolcera has been at the forefront of making patent information more easily accessible to decisi... Gridlogics Launches Web Based Patent Research Platform PatSeer Dear PIUG Members, We are pleased to announce the launch of PatSeer - a web based patent research, collaboration and research delivery platform. Here is a link to our press release that will give you more details about the launch: http://www.busine... 23 Reminder - Register to Attend a Free STN Patent Forum at the PIUG 2012 Annual Conference While you're in Denver for the PIUG 2012 Annual Conference, join your hosts from CAS and FIZ Karlsruhe for a free STN Patent Forum on May 3. Lunch will be provided. Topics will include: What's New? Effective Property Searching on STN Biomedical Files on STN DWPI Tips and Tric... 20 Searching for Specific and Generic Structures in Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) on STN workshop Join Thomson Reuters and FIZ Karlsruhe for a workshop that will give an informative review about how to conduct chemical structure searches in Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI SM ) on STN® using STN Express®. It will be both a refresher/update for experts, and a detailed introduction for those who are le... See What's New with TotalPatent at PIUG 2012 Annual Conference LexisNexis TotalPatent has new content and features that you may not have seen, including: - WO non-Latin authorities such as JP, CN, and KR in English full-text machine translations - US front-page images back file - New analytics tools - Improvements to the interface Be sure to... 19 Questel Workshop at 2012 Annual Conference - Best IP Practices using Orbit.com Best IP Practices using Orbit.com - A new approach to Patent Landscaping Please join our presenters Miguel Iglesias and  Please join us for the Thomson Reuters workshop at PIUG Annual Meeting on 29th April Join Thomson Reuters product experts for light refreshments and 90 minutes of valuable product information that will make your job easier and improve decision making in your organization. Learn about new content and search functionality, analysis so... DWPI database on STN enhanced with Numeric Property Search feature e-Seminar How often would it have been helpful for you to restrict a search in Derwent World Patents Index by numeric values of properties like particle size, temperature or molecular weight? An enhanced version of the Numeric Property Search feature is now available in the DWPI SM database on STN® (files WPINDEX, WPI... 11 CAS Expands Global Patent Coverage to Include the Eurasian Patent Organization CAS enhanced its extensive patent authority coverage in CA/CAplus by adding the Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO). EAPO (country code EA), headquartered in Moscow, is the 63rd authority covered by CAS. Eurasian patent documents expand CAS' already substantial coverage of the world's major patent authorities. CAS actively conti... 09 April Issue of STNews is Now Available The April issue of STNews, the STN e-Newsletter, is now available. Highlights include: ePub Ahead of Print Records Now Available in MEDLINE on STN NAPRALERT Now Includes More Natural Product Information on STN STN Adds Chinese Patent Full-Text Database CNFULL To view this month'... 03 The Big Three on STN - CAplus, DWPI and INPAFAMDB e-Seminar STN is the only database vendor that has these three patent-family, value-added databases on one platform. Search examples will demonstrate the unique content and advantages of CAplus, DWPI and INPAFAMDB. The TRANSFER and DUPLICATE commands will be explained and used to broaden and/or narrow the search results and to combine the... March 30 Register to Attend a Free STN Patent Forum at the PIUG 2012 Annual Conference In conjunction with the PIUG 2012 Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado, STN is hosting a day-long STN Patent Forum on Thursday, May 3. Topics will include: What’s New? Effective Property Searching on STN Biomedical Files on STN DWPI Tips and Tricks Structure S... 22 Numeric property searching in STN patent databases (IPI ConfEx 2012, Workshop slides) Following several requests, here are the slides of the "Numeric property searching in STN patent databases" workshop, which I presented at IPI ConfEx, on Sunday 11th March 2012:http://www.stn-international.com/... 21 MaxVal - IDS Generator How many hours of your life have you spent on generating EFS ready information disclosure statements? All that is about to change. IDS Generator is a web-based tool that helps you fill out an IDS form quickly, accurately, and efficiently. Simply enter patent or publication number(s) or copy and p... New on STN - CNFULL (Chinese patent full-text database) CNFULL (Chinese patents full-text database) is now available on STN, providing English language full-text of patent applications, granted patents and utility models published by the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO)... 14 A little help checking the Maintenance (Expiration) Status of US Patents Like many of you, one of the banes of my existence is manually checking maintenance status on the USPTO website through Public Pair for issued patents. You type (paste) in your patent number, click the fee tab, go to the maintenance page and then have to enter in the serial number even though the patent number is pre-populated a... 06 REACH List of Registered Substances Now in CHEMLIST on STN Find more chemical regulation information with the addition of the REACH List of Registered Substances in CHEMLIST on STN. For substances on the REACH List, the CHEMLIST record will show this information in the Inventory (INV) field and include the EC Number, and if available, the submitter chemical name and corresponding CAS Re... 05 All Things Patent - Litigation in the Mobile Telephony Space MaxVal, in collaboration with Lex Machina Inc. (LMI), recently conducted a study of litigation in the mobile phone/apps space. The case set included about 415 cases filed between December 2004 and August 2011. This newsletter points out a few of the analysis results. While acknowledgi... 02 Getting Started with KMX for Portfolio Analysis - Free Webinar Dear colleagues, We are hosting a webinar on how to keep up with technology trends and analyze large patent portfolios - your competitors' and your own. In this webinar we will introduce you to KMX Patent Analytics - the best text mining analysis tool for staying ahead of the patent tsunami.  <... 01 Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst launched today - read the first issue free online! I am delighted to inform you that Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst, the newest journal in the Future Science Group portfolio, was launched today. Read the full press release here: http://www.uploadlibrary.com/futuredrugs/w... Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst launched today - read the first issue free online! I am delighted to inform you that Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst, the newest journal in the Future Science Group portfolio, was launched today. Read the full press release here: http://www.uploadlibrary.com/futuredrugs/w... February 28 Espacenet and Google Translations As a good ol' red blooded American, I know I'm not supposed to get excited by every improvement put forth by the EPO through their free Espacenet search engine, but the new patent translations are a fantastic feature. Now, I can use my preferred patent search engine/tool to identify references of interest and head over t... MaxVal - Claim Set Comparison Tool Ever wondered how the claims changed between the published application and the issued patent? Frustrated with figuring out the difference between the U.S. claims and the foreign counterpart claims? MaxVal is happy to announce this handy tool that compares two ... 27 Numeric property searching in patent databases on STN eSeminar The Numeric property search feature in PCTFULL, AUPATFULL and CANPATFULL, offers exact value and range search options for over 30 physical and chemical properties in almost 400 units. Numeric values and their corresponding units are automatically extracted from the patent text, normalized and made available for searching. This e... 20 Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst - new journal launches in March - Update and Call for Papers Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst, the latest journal from Future Science Group, will be launching in March.  Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst is dedicated to publishing high-impact patent reviews that provide an objective and concise appraisal of patents in a chosen area,... 16 Pdfs of Sequence Searching on STN workshop now available On February 6, 2012 and February 8, 2012, STN ran a two-day sequence workshop in conjunction the 2012 PIUG Biotech meeting in Boston. Entitled Sequence Searching on STN, this workshop was divided into two parts. The first part was an introduction to sequence searching on STN that explained the database content of REGISTRY, DGENE... 12 World Patent Information latest Hottest Articles The most recent list of the Hottest Articles from World Patent Information journal ( 03 Access More Than 32,000 Harmonized Tariff Codes Now in CHEMLIST on STN You can now search the new Harmonized Tariff Code (HTC) field in the CHEMLIST database on STN. Other CHEMLIST enhancements include EU Customs Codes display in the HTC field and chemical names in more languages. For more information, visit Database News. 01 PATENT OFFICE AND PATENT SYSTEM IN INDIA PATENT LAWS AND PATENT OFFICE India is a major market with a population of 1.21 billion people (2011 census), the second most populous country in the world and is a rapidly growing economy. Starting with the Patents Act of 1970, India had opted for strong protectio... January 31 Searching in DWPI Chemistry Resource (DCR) on STN eSeminar Specific chemical substances in Derwent World Patents Index documents are readily accessible via its structure searchable database segment, the DWPI Chemistry Resource (DCR). In this presentation we will introduce the content of DCR and demonstrate the search capabilities using a series of examples, including tips on combining m... 27 Matheo Patent 9.6 makes it easier to search and download patents Matheo Software is pleased to announce the launch of Matheo Patent 9.6, the software specialized in searching, monitoring, and analyzing patents. This new version includes : > A new module patent search : Querying databases of patents is more intuitive and ergonomic. Matheo Patent off... 26 Searching, Waiting, and Hoping for Semantic Search This page has been removed pending approval for posting copyrighted material. Please delete the alerting email message with the content and do not distribute the content. Thanks for your cooperation. Tom Wolff PIUG Wikimaster Chemical Structures Hidden in Patents- Markush Data in the Derwent World Patents Index with Chemaxon Software Join us for a webinar on how to find patents containing specific and Markush chemical structures that you or your competitors may have patented.  Patents sometime mentioned chemical structures explicitly (e.g. Amoxicillin) and sometimes only implicitly (e.g. "A compound having the formula I, where R1 = A, B, C, ..., R2... 24 Test your patent intelligence Test your Patent Intelligence and compare your results today.  Pantros IP offers concept based searching which is the search technology of the future and is supplementing and replacing all keyword search engines.  Validate your current search methods and see the latest in natural language search technology. ... 19 Chemical Structures Hidden in Patents. Markush Data in the Derwent World Patents Index(R) with Chemaxon Software Chemical Structures Hidden in Patents.  Markush Data in the Derwent World Patents Index(R) with Chemaxon Software Join us for a webinar on how to find patents containing specific and Markush chemical structures that you or your competitors may have patented.  Patents sometime me... 13 Introduction to Derwent World Patents Index on STN eSeminar 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 40 million patents and 1... Matheo Patent Training Matheo Software organizes the Matheo Patent next training session : February 9, 2012 in Marseille (France) Training Content Strategy in... 05 Exploring GENESEQ (DGENE) on STN eSeminar GENESEQTM (file DGENE) is an intellectually annotated database of protein and nucleic sequences indexed from the basic patent publications of the 47 patent authorities of the Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPISM) (file WPINDEX). In this e-Seminar, we will explore the various value-added features and benefits of the GENESEQ ... 2011 December 27 World Patent Information latest Hottest Article The top article in World Patent Information journal for July to September 2011 (according to the number of downloads from ScienceDirect) was: 26 All Things Patent                                                      &nbs... 21 STN Workshops at PIUG 2012 Biotech - Basic and Advanced Sequence Searching on STN While you're in Boston for PIUG 2012 Biotech, make time to brush up on your STN sequence searching skills. Basic Sequence Searching on STN February 6, 2012 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Advanced Sequence Searching on STN February 8, 2012 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. ... 12 CAS and InfoChem Enter into Long-Term Collaboration in Cheminformatics CAS and InfoChem, GmbH, a leader in chemical structure and reaction technology, have entered into a long-term collaboration initiative. As part of this initiative, teams at CAS and InfoChem will work together to develop technology in the field of cheminformatics. Currently, a joint team is developing technology to identify chemi... 09 New patent journal call for papers - methodology articles exploring strategies for accessing and assessing the patent literature We are currently inviting proposals for methodology articles for publication in the new peer-reviewed journal Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst. These articles should focus on reviewing or presenting original research pe... 07 Upcoming STN training STN e-Seminars Attend e-Seminars to learn about the latest STN developments and see how STN is being used to advance research in key scientific disciplines. Reaction Searching on STN December 8 at 9:00 a.m.* Locate Polymer and Oligomer Information on STN ... 05 Patent iNSIGHT Pro - 7th Dec -Webinar on Categorization and its use in Intelligent Patent Analysis Hi All, You are all invited to attend our Webinar on Categorization and its use in patent analysis being held on 7th Dec 2011. Two sessions are being held to cater to US/Canada and to European timings. Details of the webinar and links fo... Exploring GENESEQ (DGENE) on STN eSeminar GENESEQTM (file DGENE) is an intellectually annotated database of protein and nucleic sequences indexed from the basic patent publications of the 47 patent authorities of the Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI) (file WPINDEX). In this e-Seminar, we will explore the various value-added features and benefits of the GENESEQ dat... November 30 CAS Expands Global Patent Coverage with Malaysia (MY) Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia Becomes 62nd Authority on CA/CAplus In mid-November, CAS enhanced its extensive patent authority coverage in CA/CAplus by adding the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia. Malaysia (country code MY) is the 62nd authority covered by CAS. Malaysian pa... Searching Full-Text Patent Databases on STN This e-Seminar explores the content and features of each of the full-text patent files on STN, including how best to search, sort, browse, and review the documents retrieved in a multifile search environment. Utilizing new and enhanced full-text patent files, and standard STN search and display techniques, a case study approach ... EPO and SIPO sign agreement on Chinese-English machine translation for patents The press release from the European Patent Office stated that "The European Patent Office and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China agreed to cooperate to give access to a free Chinese-English translation service through the Internet by next year." Read more at 29 Markush Chemical Structure search presentation Next Wednesday, we are hosting a webinar to demonstrate how to find patents with Markush or specific chemical structures.  The chemical and Markush structures you need to find in patents can be discovered in the Derwent World Patents Index with ChemAxon software.  Scientists and patent searchers need this information t... Webcast of David Kappos' lecture on The America Invents Act at AU WSL (Nov. 30, 2011, 6 pm EST) David Kappos will deliver the Seventh Annual Finnegan Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property at 6:00 at American University Washington College of Law: The America Invents Act: A Patent Law Game Changer in a 21st Century Global Economy. Mr. Kappos is the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Directo... 28 Upcoming STN e-Seminars Attend e-Seminars to learn about the latest STN developments and see how STN is being used to advance research in key scientific disciplines. Reaction Searching on STN November 29 at 1:00 p.m.* December 8 at 9:00 a.m.*  Locate Polymer and Oligomer Inf... 24 All Things Patent Patent Term Adjustment Litigation Update Our April 2011 newsletter discussed recent PTA-related litigation and highlighted some unresolved issues in PTO’s Patent Term Adjustment rules. In this m... 21 STN Virtual Classes STN virtual classes provide the fundamental knowledge base that every STN searcher needs. Mastery of the techniques taught in these classes provides a firm foundation for building STN search skills. Classes are available in one- and three-hour sessions, in three tracks: text, patent and substance searching. For ... Job Posting - IP Sales Specialist Canada - 21 November 2011 The IP Sales Specialist is responsible for the complete sales cycle of new business sales opportunities for LexisNexis Intellectual Property (IP) solutions in Canada. The person will work in close collaboration with the local LexisNexis sales teams to uncover and follow-up with any IP related sales opportunity. As a subject... 11 Formation of PIUG Strategic Planning Committee Dear PIUG Colleagues, The PIUG Board is pleased to announce the formation of the PIUG Strategic Planning Committee to formulate the PIUG Strategic Plan for 2013-2017. This committee will continue to build upon the important foundational work embodied in our current 2008-2012 PIUG Strategic Plan that will guide 03 quantalyze - an online service for context-aware searching of quantities in patent documents Vienna, Austria (November 2, 2011) – max.recall presents quantalyze® – an online service for context-aware searching of quantities in text At the beginning of online information seeking was keyword search. Confronted with the limits of this model in a world of exploding digital information, compu... 02 Exploring the Derwent Drug File on STN eSeminar The Derwent Drug File (DDF)(DDFU/DRUGU) provides information from worldwide pharmaceutical literature on all aspects of drugs, from drug design to post marketing surveillance. DDF draws on about 1,150 medical and scientific journals as well as congress and conference proceedings. This session will review the content of the datab... 01 All Things Patent Design for the Win: Design Patent as a powerful Weapon in Intellectual Property Enforcement To many intellectual property practitioners and inventors, design patent is the often forgotten sibling of the more glamorous utility patent.  Sometimes, compa... October 25 New STN revolutionizes patent searching for professionals Redesigned STN retains what customers value most while phasing in advanced search and analysis capabilities beginning in 2012. COLUMBUS, Ohio and KARLSRUHE, Germany (October 24, 2011) - The STN partners, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) in the U.S. and 24 Reminder - Virtual STN Patent Forum Class on Classification Oct. 25, 1:00-2:00 p.m., U.S. Eastern time Patent classifications are powerful tools in performing comprehensive and efficient searches. Patent documents are classified by up to four major classification systems: the international classification, European classification, U.S. classification and Japanese classification sy... 19 REAXYSFILE on STN eSeminars Physical property searching in REAXYSFILE eSeminar REAXYSFILE is an invaluable prior art database on STN that offers a diverse collection of pharmacological, ecological, chemical reaction, and physical property data for more than 10.8 million substances dating back to 1771. In this session, we will provide practical tips... 17 Refresh your sequence search skills – sequence and keyword searching in DGENE on STN GENESEQ on STN (file DGENE) is the companion sequence-searchable database for DWPI. If you search in this area, you may be interested in this recent article which reviews the Thomson Reuters value-added text search options available for refining DGENE sequence searches on STN: 13 Virtual STN Patent Forum Class on Classification If you were unable to attend the STN Patent Forum training at NE PIUG 2011 earlier this week, you can still attend one of the previously featured sessions as an e-Seminar. "Virtual STN Patent Forum: a Class on Classification" covers patent classifications, which are powerful tools in performing comprehensive an... 07 PIUG NE Thomson Reuters Patent Services update, Wednesday October 12 Join Thomson Reuters at the 2011 PIUG Northeast Annual Meeting for a free workshop, Thomson Reuters Patent Services Update, to learn about recent developments to Thomson Innovation 04 Searching numeric property and polymer indexing on STN eSeminar Only on STN can the power of both the Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) and CAplus polymer indexing be harnessed together. Now, this unique synergy can be further magnified by combining DWPI and CAplus searches together with the numeric property search feature in PCTFULL, which was developed by and released on STN earlier this... September 30 New ECLA and ICO thesauri improve patent searching capabilities Newly launched thesauri for European Patent Classifications (ECLA) and in computer-only (ICO) codes provide CA/CAplus users with the means to identify ECLA and ICO codes that most closely match their search topics and to use those codes to retrieve more precise results when searching. Monthly updates to both thesauri wil... STN Viewer enhanced with Australian and Canadian full text patent information You can now use STN Viewer to evaluate and navigate through Australian and Canadian full-text patent information retrieved during STN Express searching. The ability to export AUPATFULL and CANPATFULL information into STN Viewer adds value by extending the suite of full-text patent databases whose content can be reviewed in STN V... IFI updates resume on STN Updates to the IFIPAT/IFIUDB/IFICDB databases have resumed. The databases are being updated in chronological order beginning with the oldest update (April 28, 2011) and moving forward. The databases are expected to be current by November 2011. SDI deliveries have also resumed, starting with separate SDI deliveries for Ap... 22 Patent Litigation Trends              The Google Buy-Out of Motorola:  Does It Mean Future Litigation by Google or the Precursor of a Litigation Consortium?      Google made waves in August by revealing its planned acquisition of Motorola Mob... 20 Matheo Analyzer 4.0 is available Matheo Analyzer is a decision making software that allows to get a dashboard, information maps, syntheses and indicators generated from large sets of information. The new version Matheo Analyzer 4.0, the result of significant investments in R&D, provides : > MyAnalyzer Dashbord Matheo ... 13 Webinar Invitation - Searching the Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPIsm) on STN using CPI Polymer Indexing Dear colleague, The third and last free webinar jointly presented by Thomson Reuters and STN for Open Access License users will be held on September 22nd. Learn how to efficiently search and find the patents you need on plastics, rubbers and other polymers with the help of the CPI Polymer Indexing in the Derwent ... 12 “Questel acquires Research Disclosure and becomes a major player in Defensive Publication” Press Release:  “Questel acquires Research Disclosure and becomes a major player in Defensive Publication” Washington, Paris, Tokyo, September 5th 2011. Questel, an online information service leader for ove... 09 USAN Database Updates Offer Superior Currency on STN STN provides the most up-to-date USAN database information, now with coverage from 1953-2011. This additional information provides STN users with the most complete USP Dictionary of U.S. Adopted Names and International Drug Names recognized throughout the pharmaceutical and health care industries. For more informati... 08 Introducing ActiveCharts in Patent iNSIGHT Pro Dear Members, We are pleased to announce the launch of live real-time charting capability within Co-occurrence matrix in the latest release of Patent iNSIGHT Pro. The capability we feel is an industry-first for patent analysis. Cooccurence Matrices have been in use for quite some time in patent analysis... 07 Approaches for Analysis of Patent Data on STN Virtual STN Patent Forum: Approaches for Analysis of Patent Data on STN Thursday, September 8th, 9:00-10:00 a.m. ET Learn about the analysis and visualization capabilities of STN, including STN AnaVist, STN Viewer and STN Express, Version 8.5. In this e-Seminar, you will learn techniques for effective use o... 06 Angry Bird Attacked - Mobile App Developers Targeted In Patent Litigation With the exploding popularity of smart phones, mobile phone software has become a huge business.  While mobile phone platform developers with deep pockets such as Apple (iOS), Google (Android), Microsoft (Windows Phone), and RIM (BlackBerry) have long been involved in patent litigation, recently a new phenomenon has emerged... August 30 Free STN Patent Forum Training at NE PIUG 2011 While you're in New Brunswick, NJ for the NE PIUG 2011 Annual Meeting, join your hosts from CAS and FIZ Karlsruhe at the STN Patent Forum. This free workshop will provide an update on some of the latest patent-related topics from STN, including: What’s new on STN? The revolutionary PCTFULL Searching for siRNA and miRNA in STN patent databases eSeminar RNA interference (RNAi) is a system within cells that takes part in controlling which genes are active and how active they are. Two types of small RNA molecules, Micro RNA (miRNA) and Small Interfering RNA (siRNA), are central to RNAi. This e-Seminar will: ■Review indexing and patent classification search approaches for ... 26 Licensing Executive Society Annual Meeting Passes Greetings PIUG members, As part of the PIUG/Licensing Executive Society (LES) partner agreement, LES is offering 4 plenary session passes to PIUG members to their annual LES meeting October 16-19 in San Diego. http://www.lesusacanada.org/am11... Thomson Reuters Provides Insight into Emerging Market Innovation with New DWPI Coverage The IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters is pleased to announce the addition of patent records from the patent-issuing authorities of Poland, Hong Kong and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a regional office registering patents from member states, which include the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, State of Qatar, State of Bah... 24 Patent Statistics for Decision Makers 2011 - Conference Registration Open EARLY-BIRD DISCOUNT REGISTRATION RATE - Expires THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6. Registration Now Open:  http://conferences.thehillgroup.com/USPTO/PatentStatistics2011/index.html 18 Upgrade Now to STN Express, Version 8.5 Take advantage of enhanced functionality and content now available in STN Express, Version 8.5. Key features in this release include: - Updated table and report post-processing functionality to allow parsing of the new assembled FQHIT, QHIT, FQHITEXG and QHITEXG display formats in MARPAT. - New Patent Fam... 17 World Patent Information Hottest Articles - April - June 2011 A guide to e... 09 Structure Searching in Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) Using STN Express eSeminar Dear STN customer, Our series of free webinars jointly presented by Thomson Reuters and STN continues. Join us on August 16 to learn how to efficiently search for chemical structures in the Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) on STN using STN Express. It will be both a refresher/update for experts, and a useful ... 08 PDG 2011 Annual Meeting Brief Report Posted on behalf of Sandy Mullen (PDG Secretary General): I have pleasure in attaching a copy of the brief report on the AMC 2011 of the Patent Documentation Group (www.p-d-g.org) which you are of course free to distribute to the PIUG membership. The new PDG President is Monika Hanelt of Agfa Graphics and the new... 05 Searching surfactants and detergents on STN eSeminar This session will explore how surfactants are covered in the CA/CAplus files and in index entries. The rules for indexing of individual surfactants in the REGISTRY file will also be described. Topics will include the preparation and chemistry of surfactants and their compositions, formulations with surfactants (e.g. detergent fo... 03 Thank You from AALL - PIUG Day in the Life Panel in Philadelphia This year at the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) annual conference in Philadelphia, we were fortunate enough to have four PIUG members travel from their homes to participate in our “Day in the Life of a Patent Searcher” panel. On behalf of the AALL Private Law Libraries IP group, I want to thank ... July 27 CA sections added to ACS Publications Web Editions platform will enhance browsing of ACS journals CAS and ACS Publications have collaborated to map the 80 sections of Chemical Abstracts to tables of contents, abstracts and article-level content displays on the ACS Publications Web Editions platform. Articles across the 39 scholarly research ... 24 "When Patents Attack" on This American Life, NPR I just listened to an hour-long broadcast of an episode of This American Life on NPR that examined the activities of "patent trolls," non-practicing entities that force licenses and/or sue tech companies on the basis of US patents they've acquired.  The show was quite well researched. If you have an hour t... 15 Thomson Reuters & STN joint webinar July 28 Join Thomson Reuters and STN on July 28 for free webinars. We’ll show you how to set up alerts in DWPI and DPCI so you can monitor competitor and industry patent activity, easily and efficiently. Plus, you’ll gain insight how DWPI and DPCI records can evolve over time and which search options give yo... 13 World Patent Information journal -latest postings Several PIUG wiki pages have recently been added or updated including the "Hottest Articles" which this time is headed by an article from 2003, Aptamers and SELEX: the tech... June 28 Enhancements to MARPAT on STN Save Time and Increase Usability Save time in post-search answer review with enhanced query-focused displays in MARPAT, the premier source of structure searchable Markush information from patents, available on STN. The QHIT and FQHIT display formats have been enhanced to provide more recognizable results by assembling the query-focused fragments into a ... Multifile patent sequence searching on STN This e-Seminar will focus on the theme of comprehensive multifile searching of patent sequence data, using GENESEQ (DGENE), USGENE, PCTGEN and REGISTRY databases on STN. The session will provide a variety of practical tips, from preparing the query through to post-processing search results into a final report using STN Express.<... 24 4th IRF Symposium - Presentations online The 2nd IRF Scientific Conference and 4th IRF Symposium offered again a unique forum for patent information professionals to meet the information retrieval community and see their progress in the field of patent information retrieval. Since the IRF organized this international meeting for the first time in 2007, the numb... 23 Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst - new peer-reviewed journal to launch in 2012 In early 2012 Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst, an exciting new peer-reviewed journal will be launched by Future Science Group Ltd, whose portfolio of titles includes the highly regarded Future Science, 22 Names for Life at PIUG 2011 I enjoyed meeting George Garrity and his team at this year's annual conference.  I spent quite a while talking over the Names-for-Life product with George, and I found it all fascinating.  Here's my post on their service over on the Intellogist blog. 21 IIPRD and Khurana & Khurana open Branch Office in Pune Khurana & Khurana, Advocates and IP Attorneys (K&K) along with its sister concern, an  IP Consulting Firm IIPRD announce that they have opened up a branch Office in Pune in wake of the rising client requirements and towards their goal of expanding their operations across India. K&K is one of the fast... 13 Patenting DNA, the Building Element of Life – Trends and Governing Laws Patenting DNA, the Building Element of Life – Trends and Governing Laws Abstract: Patenting DNA, the basic element of life form is an area of prime importance and debate for its commercial value. There have been numerous cases in past wherein companies have strived to get the ma... 09 Mark Your Calendars! Virtual Patent Forum about Searching for Biosimilars on STN Biosimilars, often referred to as follow-on biologics, are substances similar to the original product used to treat such diseases as cancer, multiple sclerosis and diabetes. In this e-Seminar, you will learn to use STN Index and thesauri, plus name and sequence searches, to search for biosimilars. The e-Seminar will be o... Opportunity to speak at a WIPO workshop in Nigeria, 13-15 July 2011 WIPO has asked PIUG to provide patent information experts to speak at workshops on basic patent information resources and techniques for less developed countries’s Technology Innovation Support Centers (TISC). We are now looking for a volunteer to speak in Abuja, Nigeria, at a workshop scheduled for July 13-15. &nb... May 24 II-SDV Meeting 2012 This meeting, the International Information conference on Search, Data Mining and Visualization, has now launched a Call for Papers. The II-SDV meeting takes place in NICE 16--17 April 2012 for an intensive two days. It provides a... 21 Good news for Facebook lovers – tagging friends in image or video is now patent protected Have you been tagged in a picture, video or audio on Facebook lately? If yes, ever wondered what has gone behind the scenes to make this feature available to all Facebook users? Well, if you have thought tagging your friend in a picture or video and letting them know via notification on Facebook was that simple, 20 CAS REGISTRY reaches 60 million 60 millionth substance originates from Chinese patent, signifying role of Pacific Rim research in the field of chemical and scientific publishing Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world’s leader in chemical information, announced today that a patent application claiming compounds with potential therape... Has Ogma, LLC stirred up a hornet's nest by suing TV makers? Patent Litigation Trends  Newsletter Has Ogma, LLC  Stirred Up a Hornet's Nest by Suing TV Makers?     Ogma, LLC1 (Ogma) has filed... 18 Are you a victim of patent infringement? Custom authorities could help you. Despite the fact that most companies have researchers to avoid IPR infringement, the incident rate of infringement is raising. One of the most efficient ways to solve the infringement of intellectual property is to cooperate with customs authorities. Read more by clicking here... ... New Numeric Search feature in PCTFULL on STN – Survey and E-seminars Your feedback on the New Numeric Search feature in PCTFULL on STN is very much appreciated. Therefore we invite you to participate in the short survey http://www.stn-international.c... 09 Sequence Basics on STN eSeminar In this e-Seminar, learn how to most efficiently use the various sequence searching resources on STN. Topics will include: ■Introduction to STN sequence databases ■A review of recent enhancements ■BLAST search techniques ■Sequence Code Match (motif) search techniques This session will be... 05 New Contact Details for Roy Zimmermann Friends, colleagues, business associates, I want to communicate a change in my status and provide updated contact information should you need to contact me.    As of last Wednesday, my position at Medtronic was eliminated as part of a reduction in force.   I am presently enjoying a bit of time off,... 03 Patent Litigation Trends - PTA In this edition - Patent term adjustment litigation trends  April, 2011 In this edition... 02 While in Cincinnati, attend SLA's "Gangster Tour" social The Cincinnati chapter of SLA invites PIUG Annual Conference attendees to its May 20 social event, the Newport Gangster Tour.  Newport KY, just across the Ohio River from downtown Cincinnati, was a major tourist destination for gambling and other illicit activities in the years before the gangsters who owned the cas... April 28 Reaction Searching in REAXYSFILE on STN eSeminar REAXYSFILE contains one of the largest collections of organic reactions worldwide, which makes it a valuable source for process and method prior art. In this session you will learn: ■An overview of the organic reaction information in the REAXYSFILE database ■Tips on searching for preparations ■How to effec... 20 Attend free STN workshops at PIUG 2011 Annual conference FIZ Karlsruhe, Inc. invites you to attend three free STN workshops in conjunction with the 2011 PIUG Annual conference. The three workshops are: INPAFAMDB and INPADOCDB on STN: FIZ Karlsruhe’s enhanced version of INPADOC-Data Date: May 22, 2011 Time: 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Loc... 19 Attend the free STN Patent Forum at PIUG 2011 Join your hosts from CAS and FIZ Karlsruhe at the STN Patent Forum for a day-long update on the latest developments and topics from STN, including: What's New in patent information on STN Welcome to “The Field of Dreams” – The Revolutionary PCTFULL on S... 13 CAS Coverage of Reactions from Dissertations, including "failed" reactions At our recent meeting of the Committee on Chemical Abstracts Service (CCAS), we asked for clarification of some announcements we had seen on coverage of reactions from dissertations in CASREACT and SciFinder.  Answers to our questions have now been posted on the CCAS forum on the ACS Network.   Anyone can ... Free Full Text Scientific Articles http://www.freefullpdf.com/ Free full text scientific articles...New Search Engine -- Brice Sagot, KnowMade, created a custom search engine in order to find free full text scientific articles in PDF Format. This search engine indexes more than 10 million of free references (mos... 12 Sad news Posted upon request. Dear Friends and Colleagues, It is with the utmost sadness to announce the passing of my beloved wife of over 45 years, Renee. She was the light of my life and my reason for living. A finer woman never lived. Many of you know her from her attendance with me at our annual... 11 AALL invites PIUG to a Summer IP Event Posting on behalf of AALL, a PIUG partner The American Association of Law Librarians (AALL) is a PIUG partner organization, and wishes to invite PIUG to an AALL-IP/PIUG cross-over event this summer in Philadelphia. On Sunday, July 24th, AALL-IP is hosting an IP Evening -  including a  Pat... GenomeQuest Hosts IP Sequence Search Workshop Join GenomeQuest in Cincinnati for an informative workshop on how to use the GenomeQuest software to conduct a thorough sequence search. You can sign up here http://www.genomequest.com/125/piug-2011. 04 PIUG 2011 Annual Conference - Last 5 days before Early Bird Registration closes after April 8, 2011 PIUG 2011 Annual Conference Best Practices Beyond Free-text: The Value of Indexing and Classification when Searching and Analyzing Patents Saturday, May 21 through Thursday, May 26, 2011  Hyatt... Exhibition ICIC 2011 in Barcelona Dear all,   Exhibition space is now selling well for the 2011 ICIC meeting in Barcelona (18 exhibitors booked // only 6 places to sell). All exhibitors receive a 6 minute "product presentation" slot during the main conference sessions, and this means we have to limit exhibitor acceptances to an... 01 Physical Property Searching in REAXYSFILE on STN eSeminar REAXYSFILE is an invaluable prior art database on STN that offers a diverse collection of pharmacological, ecological, chemical reaction, and physical property data for more than 10.8 million substances dating back to 1771. In this session, we will provide practical tips for conducting a variety of physical property searches in ... March 30 Sueing preemptively to prevent patent infringement Interesting article and research opportunity...related to preemptive filing to prevent patent infringement... http://www.pubpat.org/monsanto-seed-patents.htm Filed March 29, 2011 in United States District Court, The South... 28 Searching Pharmaceutical Formulations on STN eSeminar This e-Seminar highlights different tools available on STN to efficiently search for pharmaceutical formulations (galenics). The techniques described make use of ■the CA-Lexicon ■DWPI chemical fragmentation codes and ■patent classifications in combination with structure searching, in order to retrieve n... 25 Patent Litigation Trends   Patent Litigation Trends       In this edition- False marking litigation trends          24 Programme ICIC 2011 Programme ICIC 2011 The organizers of the 23rd International Conference on Trends for Scientific Informational Professionals (ICIC) have just published the full programme for the event taking place on 23 – 26 October 2011, Barcelona, Spain. Click http://www.icic... 17 Numeric property searching in PCTFULL on STN With the recent reload of PCTFULL, FIZ Karlsruhe introduced a new numeric property search feature, for either exact values or ranges of 32 different units. Numeric values and their corresponding units are automatically extracted from the full text, normalized and made available for searching. This short e-Seminar introduces this... 12 Paterra down until Sunday Apologies for being offline for a couple days. 11 Invitation to comment on the reform of the European patent grant process Dear PIUG members, The PIUG has been given a unique opportunity to respond to a request from the European Patent Office. This could be a very important step for the PIUG to create an even stronger relationship with them, and so we encourage any and all feedback on this matter. The European Patent Office is inviting repre... 04 World Patent Information journal The latest list of Hottest Articles from World Patent Information journal has been posted on the PIUG wiki. This list is of the most downloaded articles from ScienceDirect during the ... February 25 Sources and techniques for basic citation searching on STN eSeminar Familiarize yourself with citation searching on STN! Citation searching becomes more and more important – either if you wish to evaluate an authors impact, observe competitors' citing IP documents, as well as identify key researchers or patents in a specific research field. STN offers a variety of possibilities for citatio... 07 CALL FOR PAPERS – ICIC 2011 IN BARCELONA CALL FOR PAPERS – ICIC 2011 IN BARCELONA/SPAIN – LAST CALL Just a quick reminder that the absolute deadline for responses to the Call for Papers for the 2011 ICIC meeting in Barcelona is 21 FEBRUARY 2011. If you wish to submit a presentation for consideration, please do not delay. D... 02 IFI Patent Intelligence & Technology Report - Enhanced IFI CLAIMS® Patent Services, a division of Fairview Research, LLC, invites you to check out our newly enhanced Patent Intelligence & Technology Reports (PITR) on the Web. Since 1975, IFI has produced the Patent Intelligence & Technology Report – originally in hardcopy only – providing easy access ... January 30 Cincinnati IP Law Association symposium, CincyBIO 2011, March 8, 2011 CincyBIO 2011: The Bioscience Event for Innovators and Intellectual Property Professionals, organized by the Cincinnati Intellectual Property Law Association (CincyIP) and The Procter & Gamble Company, will be held on March 8, 2011.  Prominent speakers will be talking about curren... 26 Speaker for next IRF Symposium wanted The next IRF Symposium on 7-9 June 2011 will address image retrieval as one of its major topics (next to user interfaces and machine translation). We are looking for a patent information professional interested in evaluating the  2-3 image retrieval demos prepared by research groups and presenting her/his comme... 25 DWPI User Group now available on LinkedIn Users of the Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPISM) database will be interested to know about the DWPI user group that has been established on LinkedIn. This group has been created for users of DWPI to share best practices, connect with Thomson Reuters product experts, and discuss enhancement and developmen... 24 STN Sequence Searching Workshop at the PIUG 2011 Biotechnology Meeting A free STN Workshop is being offered in conjunction with the PIUG 2011 Biotechnology Meeting in San Francisco, CA. Topic: STN Sequence Searching Date: February 10, 2011 Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm 19 Searching in DWPI Chemistry Resource (DCR) on STN eSeminar Specific chemical substances in Derwent World Patents Index documents are readily accessible via its structure searchable database segment, the DWPI Chemistry Resource (DCR). In this presentation we will introduce the content of DCR and demonstrate the search capabilities using a series of examples, including tips on combining m... 18 Gridlogics announces launch of new version of Patent iNSIGHT Pro with significant enhancements Gridlogics, a patent analytics solutions specialist is pleased to announce the launch of a new version of Patent iNSIGHT Pro that includes many new significant enhancements to the product. The new release incorporate much of the feedback received from corporate and individual users of the product. Details of key improvem... 17 PIUG Mentioned in Chemical and Engineering News Article on Patent Reform Hello Everyone, The following item appears in this week's issue of Chemical and Engineering News in an article on patent reform in their annual Congressional Outlook section: Observers disagree about whether the House and Senate will be able to resolve their differences. “With the complexity of the issu... 14 PIUG is on Wikipedia Check out the new PIUG entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIUG. Getting this accepted by the Wikipedia administrators took over four months, many revisions, and identifying reporting about PIUG from third-party sources. I had thought... 10 Patent Meeting in Singapore The early bird rate for the upcoming II-SDV meeting in Singapore ends on 20 January. So if you are thinking of coming, sign up soon to save money. The meeting focuses on tools for intelligence and will be of interest to information and patent professionals. All d... 07 4th IRF Symposium The preliminary programme of the 4th IRF Symposium, 7-9 June 2011 in Vienna, Austria is now available.  All available details about the presentations and demos can be found at 05 Social Value of a Patent - www.socialcitnet.com SocialCitNet analyzes a patent's citation network to identify the most important patents in that network. By utilizing knowledge hidden in citation information, it introduces a new approach to search patent databases and to bu... 04 Chemistry + Photography = Colors of Chemistry Photo Contest Each year in the Colors of Chemistry calendar, we highlight remarkable chemistry from the CAS databases with exceptional photography from around the world. This year, we want to see your great photos! Whether you're on vacation, relaxing at home, or at work in the lab, snap a photo that fits our chemistry-related theme and enter... 03 Introduction to Derwent World Patents Index on STN eSeminar 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 40 million patents and 1... 2010 December 27 Value-added indexing improves access to World Traditional Medicine Patents in CAplus Now you can locate answers to your research questions more quickly and easily when you search the archive of 50,000 unique World Traditional Medicine (WTM) patents offered by CAplus. Newly added index terms, including CAS Registry Numbers and roles, provide many additional points of access that you can use to rapidly zero in on ... 19 New PNK field allows more precise crossover among STN patent databases To provide more precise patent publication number crossovers, STN has introduced the PNK (Patent Number/Kind Code) field for use when transferring patent publication numbers between databases. PNK field crossovers can be used to transfer publication numbers of published applications and granted patents. The PNK field is ... 15 GenomeQuest Adds Chinese Patent Content Over 40,000 sequences from over 5000 Chinese patents are indexed and searchable in GQ-IP, the company’s online patent research solution that now holds information on over 300,000 patents globally. See article on Genom... 10 2011 Bizarre Patent Calendar now out! Hi Guys Just published my Bizarre Patent Calendar for 2011. You can download and print it from here. All the best for Christmas and the new year. Ron Simmer PATSCAN dba PATEX Research Nanofiltration and the Quest for Pure Water Who is taking the lead in research and patent activity to address the world's water scarcity? Find out in the latest CAS Chemistry Research Report: Nanofiltration Shows Promise in the Quest for Pure Water, which covers 40 years of water purification literature in pa... Locating Information in Materials Science on STN eSeminar Dear STN customer, STN offers you a wide variety of information for materials science and engineering and related disciplines. Virtually any problem related to materials science and engineering can be successfully tackled using one or more of STN’s specialized databases. We would like to invite you to our las... 01 Meeting Programme Visualization Interesting New Visualization of Meeting Programme Three visualizations of the programme for the upcoming March 2011 International Information Conference on Search, Data Mining and Visualization (II-SDV) have been created by Treparel Information Solutio... November 17 Patent iNSIGHT Pro - Chemical Patent Analysis Edition launched Dear Fellow Members, Am pleased to share news of our latest chemical patent analysis edition launch. Kindly see related Press Release Below. Sincerely, 15 Call for Papers ICIC 2011 Dear Colleague, The 2011 ICIC meeting will be held in the port area of Barcelona 23-26 October 2011. We are now looking for offers of presentations at the 2011 meeting, and the Call closes on February 2011. The Call for Papers is now available at http://www.infonortics.co... 14 Let us know if you're interested in attending the Patent Information Fundamentals course if it's offered February 7-8, 2011, near San Francisco PIUG's "Patent Information Fundamentals" course was held for the first time following the 2010 Northeast Conference in New Brunswick, NJ.  We are now considering repeating the course in California, immediately before the Biotechnology Meeting that's scheduled for Wednesday, February 9, 2011, in South San Fran... 11 Patents on the Cloud Dear fellow PIUG members, Following on the recent acquisition of IFI Claims Patent Services, Fairview Research and IFI are pleased to announce the wide availability of Alexandria, the world's first commercial database of patents on the Amazon Elastic Cloud.  This marks a major milestone in patent content a... 09 Searching Japanese Patent Information on STN This e-Seminar will explore various aspects of searching Japanese Patent Office (JPO) information in STN databases, including CAplus, JAPIO, INPAFAMDB and Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI). Topics will include: ■An overview of the Japanese patent system ■Coverage of Japan in patent databases on STN ■Tips fo... 07 World Patent Information Hottest Articles July to September 2010 1. Enhancing patent landscape analysis with visualization output Yang, Y.Y.; Akers, L.; Yang, C.B.; Klose, T.; Pavlek, S. 2. Helping others acquire, license or invest in patents with confidence - A guide for patent searchers to patent due... 04 Joint training sessionon the Derwent World Patents Index database on STN Thomson Reuters and FIZ Karlsruhe proudly announce a joint training session on the Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) database on STN. The training is geared for patent searchers of all levels. A basic understanding of STN is preferred but not mandatory. The session will occur on November 10, 2010 at the Thomson Reuters site in ... October 26 Guest Post on USPTO-EPO Joint Patent Classification System on PatentlyO Blog Check out the Guest Post on USPTO/EPO Joint Patent Classification System by Tony Trippe on Dennis Crouch's PatentlyO Blog. Dennis "asked Mr. Trippe to provide his perspective as a professional search specialist on the 13 Two BEILSTEIN on STN eSeminars Two different BEILSTEIN on STN eSeminars will be held over the next few weeks. 1. Physical Property Searching in BEILSTEIN eSeminar BEILSTEIN is an invaluable prior art database on STN that offers a diverse collection of pharmacological, ecological, chemical reaction, and physical property data ... II-SDV Meeting in Singapore We are proud of the programme for the International Information Conference on Search, Data Mining and Visualization (II-SDV) that will take place in Singapore 14-15 March 2011. The programme is now public and we hope you will take a few minutes to loo... 11 Thomson Reuters workshop at PIUG, Weds 13th Oct Reminder Last minute registration is still available for the Thomson Reuters workshop, Weds Oct 13 11.00 - 12.30. Join Don Walter and Bob Stembridge to learn "What’s new? A review of recent developments in DWPI, PCI and Thomson Innovation including how to search ECLA classes effectively". Lunch is also pro... 10 Last Minute Registration ICIC 2010 in Vienna Dear Collegues and Friends, 10.10.10. ... 10:10 p.m. ... There are only 10 working days to register until the start of the ICIC 2010 in Vienna. When you attend the ICIC 2010 you will meet more than 160 colleagues from following companies and organizations: 08 Crossfile Structure Searching on STN eSeminar This eSeminar teaches you how to make the most of the unique combination of the world's premier patent databases on STN. Learn how to conduct a cross-file structure search in REGISTRY / MARPAT / CAPlus as well as in the Derwent World Patents Index Chemistry Resource (DCR) and to combine the data for an optimized, deduplicated re... 07 Invitation to Questel Orbit.com's free workshop during PIUG NE 2010 Questel is pleased to invite you for a full-day workshop on orbit.com's new release 06 Please register for Thomson Reuters free workshop at PIUG 2010 Please join us on Wednesday October 13 from 11 am - 12.30 pm for an informative and nourishing workshop (lunch is included!) Thomson Reuters: "What’s new? A review of recent developments in DWPI, PCI and Thomson Innovation including how to search ECLA classes effectively" Presenters: Donald Walt... 01 New FIZ Karlsruhe e-Seminar Recorded Events page As of September 24, 2010, a web page providing a series of Recorded Events (Video/Audio) has been added to the STN International website. The Recorded Events are e-Seminars, each lasting about one hour, and supplementary live search examples demonstrating topics covered in the recorded e-Seminars. In the initial launch,... September 28 Elliott Linder, Retired Dear PIUG colleagues and friends, After a leave of absence from work of more than one year to take care of my wife Marsha, who has been very ill, we have made the difficult decision to make my departure from Questel official. I said when I interviewed for my original position at Questel in 2002 that I was ... Effective Sequence Searching on STN workshop at PIUG NE meeting STN International is pleased to announce that we are presenting the Effective Sequence Searching on STN workshop on Wednesday, October 13 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM at the Hyatt Regency New Brunswick in conjunction with the 2010 PIUG NE meeting. In this workshop, learn how to most efficiently use the various sequence searching reso... 20 IFI is acquired by Fairview Research We are pleased to announce that IFI has been acquired by Fairview Research, based in New Haven, CT. IFI will continue to offer all of its current products and services, ensuring a seamless online experience for all searchers, and will operate as IFI CLAIMS Patent Services from its existing Delaware offices.  Fairview will m... Invitation to Questel Orbit.com's free workshop during PIUG 2010 Questel is pleased to invite you for a full-day workshop on orbit.com and MMS on Wednesday, October 13, from 9AM to 4PM. We are pleased to offer breakfast, lunch, refreshments and snacks. Pl... 13 PIUG Mentioned in News Article on Patent Analysis I am always impressed with the amount of recognition PIUG gets as an organization.  Both nationally and internationally our group is a recognized authority on patent information.  This point was once again brought home to me last week when I was contacted by a report in Minnesota and asked to comment on patent analysis... 09 Effective Sequence Searching on STN workshop at PIUG NE meeting STN International is pleased to announce that we are presenting the Effective Sequence Searching on STN workshop on Wednesday, October 13 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM at the Hyatt Regency New Brunswick in conjunction with the 2010 PIUG NE meeting. In this workshop, learn how to most efficiently use the various sequence searching reso... 08 Register to Attend an STN Patent Forum at the PIUG Northeast Conference An STN Patent Forum is being offered jointly by STN and PIUG on Monday, October 11, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Topics include: What's New? The Secret Life of CAS REGISTRY Legal Status and Patent Profiles Approaches for Analysis of Patent Data on STN ... MPEP Soft Cover 2 Vol Set - Pre-order pricing The MPEP 8th Edition, 8th Revision 2 Volume Set will be ready to ship on or about September 22nd. IP Data Corporation will honor our offer for low pre-order pricing of $65 for a single set down to as low as $50 per set in larger quantities until the books are in our warehouse (about Sept. 22nd).  Call 800-83... 07 Second call for volunteers to sit mock examinations for the Certification of Patent Information Specialists Message posted on behalf of the CEPIUG working group on Certification: ===================================================== Dear all, We have already quite a number of people who have indicated that in principle they are willing to sit one of the mock examinations for the Certification of Patent Informat... 01 Please provide input - Survey on Rules for Selecting Data in Multi-Database Pipeline and Patents Reports Do you create reports combining data from different patent and/or drug pipeline databases? If so, we'd like to request your participation in a BizInt survey on Rules for Selecting Data in Multi-Database Pipeline and Patents Reports.  Please help us by taking a brief survey about your "rules" -- how you ... August 31 Thomson Reuters IP Solutions Customer Conference early bird registration deadline reminder Just a brief reminder to PIUG colleagues that the early bird registration deadline for the Thomson Reuters IP Solutions Customer Conference expires at the end of today, Tuesday 31st August 2010. The Thomson Reuters IP Solutions Customer Conference is being hel... 27 Searching Antibody Information on STN eSeminar STN offers several techniques and databases to help find antibody information. In this e-seminar, learn how to retrieve sequences of a specific region, such as the complimentary determining regions (CDRs), and to locate antibodies used as therapeutic or diagnostic agents. In particular, this session will focus on the key value-a... 25 A Decade Later, Human Genome Discoveries Spur Growth of Cancer Treatments Columbus, Ohio (August 24, 2010) Today, leukemia patients who have struggled with cancer therapy resistance and intolerance will now have more options thanks to targeted drug therapy. Such new treatment options are due, in part, to a rapid increase in journal and patent publications following the discovery of Gl... 23 Brief Report to PIUG - Patent Documentation Group 2010 Annual Members Conference I have pleasure in attaching our brief report on the Annual Members Conference 2010 of the Patent Documentation Group (PDG). I hope all is well with you and wish you a pleasant weekend. Kind regards, Sandy – Dr. Alexander (aka Sandy) Mullen Secretary General PDG - Patent ... 12 Free Daily Patent Litigation Alerts My colleague recently started publishing a free alert containing all the new patent litigations in the U.S. each day, including free complaint PDFs. It was featured on Patently-O last week:http://www.pate... 06 Patent Information Meetings, Conferences, and Seminars pages have been updated - August 2010 The Patent Information Meetings, Conferences, and Seminars page has been recently updated. I. Program highlights related to patent information have been added to the following 03 Markush Forum at ChemAxom US UGM Sept. 16, 2010 Boston, MA Markush Forum September 16th, 9.00 – 12:30. ChemAxon is pleased to announce the initial US meeting of the Markush Forum on Thursday morning 16th of September. The Markush Forum provides an opportunity for interested organizations to participate in the further development of ChemAxon’s tools for ... July 29 Test of enablement – An incentive for information disclosure on patent claims? Test of enablement - “Any analysis of whether a particular claim is supported by the disclosure in an application requires a determination of whether that disclosure, when filed, contained sufficient information regarding the subject matter of the claims as to enable one skilled in the pertinent art to make an... 28 Toyota settles with Paice on hybrid car litigation confirming the infringement prediction made by new patent analytics technology Toyota and Paice have just announced a settlement on their long standing dispute over the alleged infringement of Paice's hybrid car patents. While the terms of this settlement are not known, Paice appear to be satisfied with the terms of the settlement, noting on their website “I am happy that Toyota and Paice came to an ... 26 CAS coverage of global patent authorities has expanded to 61 with the addition of Costa Rica On July 12, 2010, CAS enhanced its extensive patent coverage by adding patent and patent family information from the Costa Rica Registry of Industrial Property. Also at this time, CAS expanded coverage of the Argentina National Institute of Industrial Property. For details, see the latest Early booking price for the 2010 ICIC meeting in Vienna expires 10 AUGUST 2010 Dear Colleague, Just a reminder that the early booking price for the 2010 ICIC meeting in Vienna this October expires 10 AUGUST 2010. If you are planning to attend the meeting but have not yet sent in your booking, please do so soon and save yourself some money. Full conference details are at: 23 Questel sells Edital to Wolters Kluwer and focuses on its Patent business Munich, Paris, Washington, July 19th. Questel, a leading provider in intellectual property information solutions announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement under which Wolters Kluwer will purchase 14 2009 STN Patent Forum Archive now available! Hi everyone, All presentations given at STN Patent Forums in 2009 are now available. Presentations include What’s New on STN?, Extending the Borders of Chemical Searching on STN, We Are Patent Families, Understanding First-Level and Value-Added Patent Databases, and many more. To access the STN Patent Forum Archive... 02 Multifile Patent Sequence Searching on STN Hello everyone, This e-Seminar will focus on the theme of comprehensive multifile searching of patent sequence data, using GENESEQ (DGENE), USGENE, PCTGEN and REGISTRY databases on STN. The session will provide a variety of practical tips, from preparing the query through to post-processing search results into a final re... June 29 Patents and Tools Meeting in Singapore The II-SDV meeting that will be held in Singapore next March (14-15 March 2011) has announced the preliminary list of speakers. Among initial promised speakers of interest to PIUG members are: * Lulin Gao – Founder Chairm... 24 Forty Years of Biofuel Research Reveal China Now Atop U.S. in Patenting and Commercialization of Bioethanol Columbus, Ohio (June 24, 2010) - Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) reports that in 2009, China surpassed all other countries in the production of bioethanol patents, emerging as the global leader in the commercialization of bioethanol research. In the 23 Office of the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) Congress created a position under the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008. Victoria Espinell introduces herself as the new coordinator on this page:  http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/intellectualproperty/ip... Patents information for BP's rescue While BP and the government are still floundering in dealing with the catastrophe, we think that a certain look at the patent landscape might guide Mr. Tony Hayword, CEO - BP with a promising business stra... 14 GenomeQuest - Thomson Reuters Free Luncheon Seminar One week left to sign up and see the newest release of GenomeQuest for IP, featuring seamless integration with Thomson Reuter's GENESEQ, at the upcoming free seminar taking place June 22, in Cambridge, MA. This free luncheon seminar is focused on "Web-based Searching for Patent Information Across Global Sequence Da... 10 Quantifying the breadth and comprehensiveness of claims Assessment factor A4 of IPscore® reads “How broad and comprehensive are the patent claims?” The choices are the following. 1. The claims are very narrow and specific. 2. The claims are quite narrow. 3. The claims are reasonably broad. 4. The claims ... 08 Questel Acquires Patentpilot Business from Unycom and enters into a cross-distribution agreement Paris – Washington, DC - Munich June 7th, 2010 Questel acquires PatentPilot, Unycom online patent alerting service, widely used in Germany and Austria... 01 Sequence Basics on STN eSeminar update Hello everyone, Due to customers' requests, the Sequence Basics on STN eSeminar has added another time for you to attend. The additional date/time is Date: June 08,2010 9:00 am, British Summer Time (GMT +1, London) 10:00 am, Central European Summer Time (GMT +2, Berlin) 1:30 pm,... May 27 Sequence Basics on STN eSeminar Topics will include: Introduction to STN sequence databases A review of recent enhancements BLAST search techniques Sequence Code Match (motif) search techniques This session will be of interest to those learning STN sequence searching, and those who are experienced searchers, who would like a r... 21 GenomeQuest and Thomson Reuters Free Luncheon Seminar GenomeQuest and Thomson Reuters invite you to a special luncheon seminar, Tuesday, June 22nd at the Royal Sonesta Hotel Boston. The seminar will demonstrate the new release of GenomeQuest for IP, and the advantages of the GenomeQuest and GENESEQ integration for Web-based patent searching. 14 GenomeQuest & Thomson Reuters Host IP Seminar Register here...http://www.genomequest.com/66/ip-west-coast-seminar#Schedule GenomeQuest & Thomson Reuters Host IP Seminar: Web-based Searching for Patent Information Across Global Sequence Databases ... 12 New Survey Tool Added to the Wiki Tom Wolff has added a new survey tool to the wiki. To add a survey to a post use the following format: { vote:Are surveys worthwhile? } Yes No What was the question? { vote } Will generate the following survey: Are surv... 07 Patent Classification on STN eSeminar (Part II) Make efficient use of a wealth of patent classification systems available on STN to refine your search strategies for optimum results. This session covers the European ECLA and ICO as well as the Japanese File Index (FI) and F-Terms, the US National Classification (USPC) as well as Thomson Reuters’ own Classification... 05 PIUG 2010 Annual Conference Twitter Archives Check out the PIUG 2010 Annual Conference Twitter archives at http://www.twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/piug2010. Thanks to Tony Trippe (incoming PIUG Chair), Kristin Whitman (Intellogist), and new PIUG member Patrick Anderson for prolifi... 03 Verizon Offers a New Revenue Generating Program for Nonprofits PIUG was recently notified of a program offered by Verizon to help nonprofit organizations raise additional revenue. I have enrolled PIUG as a participant in the program. PIUG will receive a donation from Verizon when anyone orders a new qualifying residential Verizon product. The program currently is only offered in 5 regions w... STN Partners, CAS and FIZ Karlsruhe, Announce Plans to Develop New STN Platform Plans to develop a new STN platform have been announced by STN partners, CAS and FIZ Karlsruhe. The new platform will provide a more modern interface and product architecture, while maintaining the critical search power and high quality content for which STN has become known. Some advantages will be: Better integra... Job Posting - Product Manager – Scientific Information Industry New Opportunity Product Manager – Scientific Information Industry Mid West US Our client’s databases & search tools help researchers worldwide make discoveries that improve our lives. This unique and dominant trade organization strives for constant improvem... April 29 Questel and WIPO partner to promote global innovation in developing countries Paris, Geneva - April 28th, 2010 Today, Questel announced a partnership with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to initiate a program giving the offices of the intellectual property, government and aca... 28 Structure Searching Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) using STN Express This workshop will present an informative review about how to conduct chemical structure searches in Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI) on STN® using STN Express®. It will be both a refresher/update for experts, and a detailed introduction for those who are less familiar with the capabilities of DWPI on STN. The wor... 27 Dolcera Workshop PIUG 2010 on Tuesday May 4th between 4pm and 5pm Dolcera warmly invites you to our Workshop titled "Dolcera Patent Dashboard Workbench " on Tuesday May 4th 2010 between 4pm and 5pm. The session is designed for new and existing users of our 26 Reminder - Register to Questel workshop during PIUG 2010 and get a chance to win an iPad or an iPod Get the best IP practices out of Orbit.com, Questel's new patent portal Sunday, May 2 Minesoft Workshop PIUG 2010 Sunday May 2nd at 10am Minesoft is pleased to invite you to our Workshop on Sunday May 2nd at 10am. The session is designed for new and existing users of PatBase; PatentOrder and PatentTracker. The Workshop will cover new enhancements to the interface and data sources of PatBase and PatBase Express, as well as the latest integration of... Reminder! LexisNexis Workshop at PIUG on May 6 You’re invited to our workshop at the 2010 PIUG Annual Meeting: Deep Patent Research Using LexisNexis IP Solutions with Semantic Search Thursday, May 6 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Peale A At this workshop, you’ll le... BizInt Smart Charts workshop at PIUG - Sunday morning Please join us for the BizInt workshop "Creating and Updating Multi-Database Reports in BizInt Smart Charts 3.3 and 4.0" on Sunday morning May 2, 9:00-11:00 am, in Peale B (Level 2, Baltimore Hilton Convention Center).  The workshop will focus on new features and "tips and tricks" for both the current 3.... 21 Survey - Rules for Selecting Data for Multi-Database Patents Reports Do you create patents reports combining data from multiple patent databases? If so, how do you choose between conflicting information from different sources? Please help us by taking a brief (6 questions) survey about your "rules" for choosing data to... PIUG Conference Workshop - GenomeQuest Free, one-hour workshop focuses on Web-based searching for patent information across global sequence databases. If you are going to the PIUG 2010 Annual Conference - make this May 6 workshop one of your preferred stops! http://www.genomequest.com/88/piug-workshop<... Thomson Reuters workshop at PIUG 2010 Powering Your IP Research with Citation Analysis Sunday, May 2, 2:15-3:30pm Johnson B Thomson Reuters is pleased to invite you to a workshop and for a light lunch on Sunday, May 2, at 2:15 p.m. in the Johnson B room. The workshop, titled “Powering Your IP Research with Citation Analysis,&qu... 19 2009 PIUG-DF Archives -- Creation and Apology for Mass Email Messages (2) Bruce Mason just asked on an archived PIUG-DF page: "Tom, you just moved/removed a zillion pages. Are we doing something wrong or is this just routine maintenance?" Others have asked me about this via private email to wikimaster@piug.org. I posted an explanation and apology as a blog post yesterday. Since that... 18 2009 PIUG-DF Archives -- Creation and Apology for Mass Email Messages All PIUG-DF topics from 2008-2009 were moved today from the main level of the PIUG-DF page to a new sub-forum 2009 PIUG-DF Archives. This has been carried out in response to concerns that the left-side navigation hierarchy for the... 15 VantagePoint workshop at PIUG 2010 Annual Meeting Improving your Vantage Point on Patent Information - Leveraging Non-Patent Content Thursday, May 6, 9:30-10:30am In our continuing series of analytical workshops, we look at the often ignored and frequently under-utilized Agent field. The workshop will consist of a demonstration analyzing the Age... Invitation to Questel free workshop during PIUG 2010 Get the best IP practices out of Orbit.com, Questel's new patent portal Sunday, May 214 New and improved - USGENE on STN workshop manual! The new and improved USGENE on STN workshop manual is now available. Authored by Rob Austin, this manual contains everything you would ever want to know about searching USGENE on STN. Some of the topics covered in this manual are USGENE database content Sequence similarity searching using BLAST Altering BLAST... 13 LexisNexis Workshop at the PIUG Annual Meeting You’re invited to our workshop at the 2010 PIUG Annual Meeting: Deep Patent Research Using LexisNexis IP Solutions with Semantic Search Thursday, May 6 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Peale A At this workshop, you’ll le... 09 Reminder - STN Staff to Present at the PIUG 2010 Annual Conference Please join us at the PIUG 2010 Annual Conference for a presentation by STN staff, Brian Sweet: Wednesday, May 5, 2010 11:50 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. Eye on Asia In con... Patent Classification on STN (Part 1) Make efficient use of a wealth of patent classification systems available on STN to refine your search strategies for optimum results. This session covers the basics of patent classification, search techniques, the use of classification thesauri and introduces the International Patent Classification IPC. Attendance o... 07 Preparation of Patent Landscape Reports The purpose of this call for EOI is to identify appropriate suppliers who can potentially fulfill the requirements for the delivery of patent landscape report(s) in specific or several fields of technology. The present call for EOI does not constitute an invitation to tender. Only suppliers deemed qualified by WIPO will receive the invitation to tender for concrete patent landscape reports subjects. 06 PERI Patent Information course to be held June 7-8, 2010 The PERI course, Patent Information for the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industries, will be held in Alexandria, VA, on June 7-8, 2010. The discounted fee for early registration has been extended through May 14, 2010 The PERI course is a 2-day workshop on patent law and patent information basics, intended for informa... 05 IFFI Casting call - "George Washington Slept Here," May 4, 2010 The IFFI Players will give an encore performance of Kaufman and Hart's "George Washington Slept Here," last performed when the PIUG Annual Conference was held in Baltimore in 2004. Many of the 2004 cast members will be returning, but we still need some aspiring thespians and stage crew to fill in. We could u... March 31 Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Journal: Genomics Subject: Invalidation Court: Judge Robert W. Sweet of the Southern District of New York Parties : Association of Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Commentary: Patent Docs Biotech and Pharma Law News Blog Title: Caught in a Time Warp: The (In)validity of BRCA1 ... 24 IRF Symposium - Early-bird registration deadline 31 March 2010 Do not miss the early-bird registration deadline (31 March 2010) for the 3rd IRF Symposium in Vienna, Austria. For the 3rd time, the Information Retrieval Facility (IRF) organizes a symposium with international experts from the Information Retrieval and Intellectual Property domains. ... 19 Reminder - Register to Attend Free STN Patent Forum in Baltimore, Maryland In conjunction with the PIUG 2010 Annual Conference, please register to attend a free STN Patent Forum on May 6, 2010, at the Hilton Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland. The following topics will be covered: What's New? ... 18 Old UK Trade Mark Journal on microfilm - anybody have copies? Does anyone have a microfilm set of the UK Trade Marks Journal hidden away anywhere?   The films were produced a number of years ago by Research Publications and they cover the Trade Marks Journal from its first issue in 1876 up to 1978.  The full set runs to 72 reels of film.  If you have some or all of the ... 16 Battle of the Patent Search Systems If you use QPAT, PatBase, Thomson Innovation, or TotalPatent you might be interested in the competition brewing at Intellogist.com. Thanks to our recent efforts to involve people in rating these four patent search systems, our users have gone crazy over the last week. Currently, QPAT and PatBase are tied for the lead with an &qu... 13 Announcement - USPTO issued US 7676375 on "System and method for valuing patents" I am proud to announce that, on March 9, 2010, the USPTO issued patent 7,676,375 titled "System and method for valuing patents", invented by Rick Neifeld and Martin Goffman 11 Searching in DWPI Chemistry Resource (DCR) on STN eSeminar Specific chemical compositions in Derwent World Patents Index documents are easily accessible via the structure searchable data base segment DWPI Chemistry Resource (DCR). In this presentation we will introduce the content of DCR and demonstrate the search capabilities with of a couple of examples. Manual and automatic monitorin... 10 Indian Patent Application Status Hi Members, Indian Patent Office has upgraded its website with Patent Application Status search. We can now easily get the application status details by putting the Patent Application Number in the search box. Please explore more by visiting 05 Updated Sequence Searching on STN Workshop Hi all, STN conducted a joint CAS/FIZ Sequence Searching on STN workshop in conjunction with the 2010 Boston Biotech meeting. PDFs of that workshop are now available at http://www.stn-international.com/sequence... 04 Announcing DWPI Webinar sessions from Thomson Reuters on March 11 2010 DWPI Webinar: Supercharge your patent research Find out how the world's most trusted source of patent information, Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI℠), can help you gain insights that you would otherwise miss - and make you... 02 2010 CAS Colors of Chemistry iPhone App Now Available In January, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) introduced new digital Colors of Chemistry calendars for 2010. Now, if you have an Apple iPhone or iPod touch, take the 2010 Colors of Chemistry calendar on the road with a free interactive mobile device application. Add custom events that automatically sync with the new digital web c... February 25 2010 Brian Stockdale Memorial Award for new patent info professionals - enhanced and deadline extended 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 ... 22 SLA - Pharmaceutical & Health Tech Div Spring Mtg 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 To... 18 Minesoft partners with Gridlogics to launch an integrated IP analytics platform "Minesoft iNSIGHT Pro" globally 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... 16 Introduction to Derwent World Patent Index eSeminar 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 ima... 09 Chinese Patent Data offering at Matrixware 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... 08 Call for Papers ICIC 2010. Deadline is 20 February 2010 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)... January 20 E-seminar on January 21 - Physical Property Searching in BEILSTEIN on STN BEILSTEIN is an invaluable prior art database on STN that offers a diverse collection of pharmacological, ecological, chemical reaction, and physical property data for more than 10 million substances dating back to 1771. In this e-seminar, we will provide practical tips for conducting a variety of physical property searches in B... 14 LinkedIn Events - PIUG 2010 Conferences and others PIUG wiki members regularly maintain the Patent Information Meetings, Conferences, and Seminars wiki page. Here's another idea to find good meetings: World Patent Information - Articles in Press Articles in Press The following are some of the articles which have recently been published online but which are not yet in printed issues of the Journal. Click for details and links to the articles. CFIB, the French S... 13 Search Matters - EPO, The Hague - 12 & 13 April 2010 Dear PIUG members, We are pleased to announce that the EPO's annual "Search Matters 2010" seminar is open for registration. The event will take place at the EPO's conference centre in The Hague on 12 & 13 April. Places are limited, so please register early to avoid disappointment. Registrations to attend will... 12 Seeking to borrow "Botanical and Plant-Derived Drugs" (BCC Research report, February 2009) Colleagues: Should you have a copy of this report you are able to lend, please contact me offlist at lcurcigonzalez@kenyon.com. Many thanks. Botanical and Plant-Derived Drugs: Global Markets, Norwalk CT, BCC Research, Feb 2009 ISBN: 97815962346... 07 World Patent Information journal - latest issue World Patent Information journal - latest issue New issue Volume 32, Issue 1, (March 2010) Contents Properties of the USPTO patent citation network: 1963-2002. Bernard Gress. The text, ... 06 StockPricePredictor.com, LLC launches online automated online patent portfolio valuation service StockPricepredictor.com, LLC launched a service providing online automated sale of patent portfolio valuations at the www.PatentValuePredictor.com web site. This service addresses the need to value portfolios of large numbers of patents without paying excessive costs for valuations of individual patents. The service provides a report specifying the calculated value of the entire portfolio but not the calculated value of each individual patent. 04 EPO Bulletin - Article on Certification The latest EPO Bulletin on Patent Information News (2009, Issue 4) featured an article (see page 3 of attached pdf document) on the progress made in creating a professional qualification for patent information specialists. PIUG, CEPIUG & PDG will be working together to draft examination papers for the mock examinations to b... 2010 Colors of Chemistry Calendar Now Available in New Digital Formats on the Web Each year in the Colors of Chemistry calendar, CAS attempts to answer intriguing scientific questions with information from the CAS databases. This year, we answered questions on topics ranging from environmentally friendly fireworks to glowing fuel rods in nuclear reactors; from promising anti-cancer agents in redwood tree... Where to sell used medical books       I am trying to help a partner here sell his physician father's medical books ( don't know what's in the collection and think it's in central NJ )   I know how to buy  used medical books on the Internet, but with the demise of real used book stores, I do not know of a reputable used ... 2009 December 28 New CASSI Search Tool Now Available on the Web The CAS Source Index (CASSI) search tool is a web-based resource intended to support researchers and librarians who need accurate bibliographic information. This new tool has been created as a free-of-charge resource that will enable researchers to confirm journal titles and journal title abbreviations in an easily accessible el... 23 Holiday Wishes! As the year comes to a close, we wish to thank all of you - PIUG members, volunteers, Discussion Forum participants, and all our patent information community colleagues around the world - for all your amazing accomplishments and ... 12 Patented Days of Christmas For those of you working today, the 12 Patented Days of Christmas On the twelfth day of Christmas my law firm gave to me 12 willful infringements 11 Supreme Court edicts 10 office actions 9 maintenance payments 8 continuations 7 non-practicing entities 6 permanent injunctions 19 Brief Report to PIUG - Patent Documentation Group's 55th Annual Members Conference I have pleasure in sending you a short non-confidential report on the last PDG Anual Members Conference for the PIUG website. May I take this opportunity to wish you all the best for the coming festive season and 2010. Kind regards, Sandy – Dr. Alexander (aka Sandy) Mullen Sec... 15 CAS Adds Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines as 60th Patent Authority in its Patent Coverage Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has enhanced its extensive patent coverage by adding patent and patent family information from the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IP Philippines), increasing the number of patent authorities covered to 60. Information from the IP Phili... 14 CAS Takes Part in the National Convention of the Society for Information Science in India Craig Stephens, vice president of sales at Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), recently spoke about the growing importance of patinformatics at the 26th National Convention of the Society for Information Science (SIS) in Pune, India. Stephens discussed how researchers in India and elsewh... 08 Bizarre Patent Calendar for 2010 Published Just sending you all a link to my new Bizarre Patent Calendar for 2010 See also the colour version on my site.  Enjoy!  Ron Simmer PATSCAN  http://www.patex.ca... 07 Question about the Swedish Patent Office Consultancy services, PRV InterPat Secure (PIS) It's not clear to me whether the "validity search" offered by the Swedish Patent Office Consultancy services, PRV InterPat Secure (PIS), actually searches the entire EPO or just Swedish prior art. Anybody have experience with the PRV? Lucy Curci-Gonzalez Director, ... 02 IPR Researchers' Confluence - India, December 21-22, 2009 Dear Members, The first IPR Researchers' Confluence is being organised at the Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay, India. Dates: December 21-22, 2009 Weblink: Patinformatics Group Created on LinkedIn Hello Everyone, Last week I was made aware that a new group was formed on LinkedIn called Patinformatics. The group currently has 210 members from around the world and was started by a gentlemen named Amit Kumar Tiwari. The description is below: The Patinformatics Group is a not-for-profit Group for individuals... Japan Association for International Chemical Information (JAICI) now markets in-house version of USGENE, the USPTO Genetic Sequence Database, in Japan *The agreement gives the Japan Association for International Chemical Information (JAICI) the mandate to operate as SequenceBase Corporation's marketing agent for subscriptions to the USGENE in-house version and USGENE data available for customized subscription download.* 01 New percent identity feature for sorting BLAST answer sets in DGENE, USGENE and PCTGEN on STN A new sequence sorting feature for BLAST answer sets is now available in DGENE, USGENE and PCTGEN. This new sorting option is a great support for reviewing large sequence answer sets and makes the identification of relevant sequences much more efficient and reliable. The enhanced sorting functionality allows you to sort a BLAST ... November 30 Comprehensive Patent Family Information on STN - eSeminars on December 8 and 10, 2009 Patent applications and granted patents describing the same invention are often referred to as a patent family. This session describes the unique features of the major patent family databases on STN – CAPLUS, WPINDEX and INPAFAMDB. It also explains why it is important to use more than one database for comprehensive retriev... 27 AIDB Conference 2010 - 26-27 May 2010 - Genoa AIDB Conference - 26/27 May 2010 - Genoa The annual Conference of the Italian Association of Patent Documentalists will be held in Genoa at the National Institute of Material Physics, part of the National Research Council (CNR) on 26/27 May 2010. The provisional theme of this edi... 25 Social Media and Patent Information Social Media and networking websites have affected the life of people in one way or the other. Simply put, we are all hooked by these websites. We at Dolcera thought that it may be interesting to make a preliminary research on the social media to find their nexus with the patenting fraternity. This blog post is mainly to share t... 23 China Leads All Nations in Publication of Chemical Patents According to CAS, the World's Most Authoritative Publisher of Chemical Information Columbus, Ohio (November 23, 2009) - Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the global expert on chemical information, reports that China's patent office is now the world's leading producer of patent invention applications in chemistry. China trailed Japan's patent office, the World ... 20 USGENE on STN enhanced biblio and sequence info now back to June 2007 USGENE enhancements Enhanced bibliographic and sequence information The USPTO Genetic Sequence Database (USGENE) now includes even more extensive bibliographic and text search options for refining U.S. patent sequence searches.  From June 2007, USGENE sequence records now in... 16 MPatent - TimeLine, A new Legal Status visualization tool Dear Members, We are proud to anounce the new Legal Status visualization tool. This is a description of this new tool: The reading of the 12 Questel Special Offer - Win an IPod mini for every 3rd Prior Art Search Questel provides information from the world's largest collection of international patents, using the most advanced patent management tools. The search team is composed of the specialists from The Patent People (JF Brown & Associates), acquired in January 2009. We currently offer an IPod mini if three prior art search... 11 ICIC 2010. Call for Papers & Invitation to Exhibit The Call for Papers and Invitation to Exhibit for the 2010 ICIC meeting in Vienna, Austria, from 24-27 October is available at http://www.infonortics.com/chemical/ch10/call-10.html. The Meeting <... 05 PIUG Announces Steering Committee Members for Patent Analysis Working Group PIUG Announces Steering Committee Members for Patent Analysis Working Group The Patent Information Users Group (PIUG Inc), the International Society for Patent Information, announced the nine members of the steering committee who have been selected to launch the Patent Analysis Working Group. In a release from October o... 04 Finding similar patents with Xyggy Patent Imagine you want to find similar patents for a given patent.  Now you can with Xyggy Patent (http://www.xyggy.com/patent.php).  What's more, you can query with multiple patents (selected by paten... October 21 FIZ Karlsruhe and CAS strengthen partnership - Jobs for scientists in Germany secured FIZ Karlsruhe and CAS strengthen partnership Long-established collaboration extended to include aspects of producing the world's most important chemistry databases, and consolidation of customer support activities  Karlsruhe (Germany), Columbus (USA/Ohio), October 2009 - A recent agreement bet... 19 Ranking Patents on a Scorecard Ranking makes life easier. Be it top 10 companies, top 10 universities to study technology or to choose amongst top 10 sci-fi movies you want to watch on the weekends; ranking allow us to choose the best amongst the available. Time saver, decision influencer and extremely helpful are the ranked material. At 13 4G Mobile IPR Seminar & Panel Discussion   As a part of patinex 2009, which is scheduled on Nov. 10-11 in Seoul, S. Korea, there will be a special session on 4G Mobile IPRs. After short presentations by each panel, there will be an in-depth discussion about current status of 4G (LTE, ... 08 Early warning system for patent trolls Call them "patent terrorists" or "paten trolls" they are here to stay. It needs constant vigil and dexterity in analyzing patents to shield those companies that have no tangible assets, products or customers---just a team of lawyers who write demand letters, file lawsuits and watch the dollars roll in. And th... 07 PIUG Announces Formation of Patent Analysis Working Group The area of patent analysis has grown considerably over the past decade. Patent Analytics was the theme of the 2003 PIUG Annual Conference and an entire industry of consultants and providers has developed over time to serve this function within the patent information community and beyond.  In response to a growing need to b... September 29 Two articles about the PIUG wiki published in 2009 and 2010 Two recently-published articles by Tom Wolff introduce the PIUG wiki and discussion forum to a wider audience and provide the rationale and strategies behind the development process. Share these articles with your colleagues to encourage them to sign up for the PIUG wiki and join the online collaboration. 20 PERI Patent Information course early bird registration extended to Sept. 30, 2009 The PERI course, Patent Information for the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industries, will be held in Alexandria, VA, on October 26-28, 2009. The discounted fee for early registration has been extended through September 30, 2009. The PERI course is a 3-day workshop on patent law and patent information basics, intende... 18 PIUG Bylaws Amended as of September 18, 2009 PIUG members have approved amendments to the PIUG Bylaws. Voting ended at midnight on September 13, 2009, and the Board of Directors has set the effective date as September 18, 2009. The amendment addresses three items in the previous bylaws: The two membership categories. Full and Associate Members are ch... 14 Dolcera to speak at PharmaCI 2009 Conference As part of Dolcera's contribution to the patent and competitive intelligence community in the pharma space, Dolcera's proposal on "Unlocking the hidden potential from the abandoned molecules. - A systematic CI driven approach!" has been accepted at the PharmaCi 2009 Conference and one of Dolcera's foun... 07 "IP Conclave on IT" jointly organized by CII & USPTO This is about the coverage of the recently concluded "IP Concalve on IT" jointly organized by USPTO and CII (Confederation of Indian Industry). Once again , Dolcera was a special invitee to give a talk on the August 27 Maximize your IP Potential - BioXcel BioXcel Corporation provides research and analytics solution to healthcare and related industries and has completed more than 500 projects serving more then 60 clients worldwide (large to small size pharma). We offer an integrated approach for research and analytics services and our Hybrid business model has following components... 18 STN eSeminars on Biosequence searching Dear STN customer, We would like to invite you to the following e-seminars on biosequence searching: "Multifile Patent Sequence Searching on STN" This talk will focus on the importance a... 13 Sad News - Charles Cumbo Dear PIUG Colleagues, It is with great sorrow that I share the sad news of Charlie Cumbo's passing. Charlie died peacefully on Sunday, August 9, at age 68 in Orlando, Florida, after a short battle with cancer. His wife and children were by his side. Charlie and Carol, his wife of 47 years, were happily retired ... 07 A Database of Patented Medicines Goes Live On Tuesday, PharmaValet (http://www.pharmavalet.com) was officially released. PharmaValet is an online drug patent database that combines data on patented drugs from the FDA Orange Book and Canada's Patent Register and integrates it seamlessly with critical supplement... 06 PIUG Bylaws - final recommended amendment is available for review The Membership Task Force, with input from the Bylaws Committee, the Strategic Planning Committee, PIUG's legal representative, and the PIUG Board, has completed the draft of changes in the PIUG bylaws that will be submitted to the membership for approval. The proposed amendmented document is available in the PIUG members-only s... Indian Patenting Landscape- Who is at the top of the patenting ladder? This is in continuation to a previous Dolcera Blog post on Patenting Landscape in India which could be read from 01 Rosiglitazone patenting story not over yet in India Case background    Avandia is the popular drug name marketed by GSK had strong sales of 2.3 billion USD in 2007 till reports of its cardiovascular risks came out in the market place (forcing lots of physicians to change prescriptions to their patients, though the data was proclaimed as inconclusive by FDA). ... July 29 Intellogist Sweepstakes Just a note to the PIUG membership - if you're looking for training opportunities on a budget, check out our Intellogist Sweepstakes! The winner will be invited to join our sponsor, Patent Resources Group, at the October 2009 Advanced Courses program 28 PATENT FILING TREND AROUND THE GLOBE - A DOLCERA ANALYTICS REPORT Salient Features of this report include the following The complete picture Top 10 patent filing countries  Top 11 Patent filing offices Patent filing trend: Rise and Fall To read this report in entirety, please click 27 IPWARE SUMMIT 2009 offers PIUG member discount on registration The IPWARE SUMMIT 2009 (www.ipware-summit.com) is an international event addressing the issues of up-to-date IT software for  IP Management Patent and Trademark Case handling Patent information search Patent machine tra... 24 PATOLIS-E ACCESS Dear PATOLIS-e user, You have heard about the PATOLIS Corp restructuring after the official announcement they made on July 22nd. We got the confirmation that the services they offer will continue as they stand today. So you can continue accessing PATOLIS-e on Questel via Qweb, QPAT or our PatLegal Monitor... NEW ASIAN DATA ON QUESTEL Dear colleagues, The Questel team has the pleasure to announce the addition of the following Asian content to its wide collection of databases : http://www.questel.fr/emailing/emailing_200907_Focus_on_A... 23 Clinical trials in Asia - Part I & II Continuing from the previosuly published study on India Close Second to China in Clinical trial registered to be conducted in Asia: A Dolcera Study, we analysed 4 other important Asian countries and the trend of clinical trials there, these were: Philippenes, Russian Federation, Korea and... 21 Patenting Landscape in India - A View on Patenting Trends in India This is a report prepared on the basis of the Annual Report 07-08 provided by the Indian Patent office. This report provides us with an analysis of the patenting trends in the last five years (I.e From 2003-2008). The data for the analysis is taken from the Annual Report - 2007-08 provided by the Indian patent Office. This repor... 20 Enhanced bibliographic and sequence information in USGENE on STN The USPTO Genetic Sequence Database (USGENE) on STN now includes even more extensive bibliographic and text search options for refining U.S. patent sequence searches. From July 2009, USGENE sequence records on STN now include: Priority application information (PRAI), including prio... 16 GBFULL backfile update (STN) Coverage of the GBFULL (United Kingdom Patents full text) file on STN has been significantly extended through the implementation of backfile information produced by LexisNexis Univentio going back to 1855. So far GBFULL covered the complete collection of UK patent applications back until 1979 when the UK Office started t... 09 USGENE Patent Sequence Location data Patent sequence location data have been added to the USPTO Genetic  Sequence Database (USGENE) back to June 2007.  The PSL-field provides the sequence identity number and, if the  sequence identity number is described in the claims, the  corresponding claim number. This allows you to easily identify ... June 25 PatentCafe Merges With Pantros IP     PatentCafe Merges With Pantros IP European, Asian operations merged with US based PatentCafe to create the industry's leading global Intellectual Property Management Solution Provi... 19 Wiki registration hits 800 Total registration for the PIUG wiki reached 800 today. This includes 408 current PIUG members and 392 who have not yet renewed or become PIUG members. To-date, a total of 140 users have contributed content to the PIUG wiki, 87 of which have contributed specifically to the main 15 PIUG 2010 Annual Conference to be held in Baltimore on May 1-6, 2010 At the PIUG 2009 Annual Conference, announcement was made that the PIUG 2010 Annual Conference would be held from Saturday, May 1st, through Thursday, May 6th, 2010, at the Hilton Baltimore Hotel (401 West Pratt St., Baltimore, MD 21201) located in Baltimore's beautiful Inner H... 11 A New Report JP NETe - Japanese patent search system June 11, 2009 ::::: Intellogist.com::::: Some of you requested Intellogist to write about JP NETe from Japan - a Japanese patent search system in English from a provider called Japan Patent Data Service (JPDS).  We contacted JPDS recently, evaluated JP NETe, and our report on this system is now avai... May 19 For PIUG Members Patent File histories, JP Patent Files, Special Offer for PIUG Members/ News Release Discount Patent Service -- Is offering a special 30% off the regular rates to all PIUG Members (saving that can add up to thousands of dollars). This special rate is offered to PIUG Members only. Please April 06 Everyone could use cost savings these days - Landon IP News - Whether you work for corporations or for law firms, cost management without lowering the quality can be challenging.  Landon IP announces the availability of low cost Japanese patent file histories. Our Japanese patent file histories are; Fast Delivery & Cost Effective: 15-20% cost reduction compa... March 11 All the News That's...targeted, profiled, correlated and...Fit to Print Newspapers have been in trouble for a while now (thanks for the list Craig), yet there is no bail out planned any time soon.  Unlike the auto industry, newspapers have been in a mad scramble to innovate and raise readership while squeezing every last dime out of di... 05 Morpheus, et al, Beat Smith to the Matrix Patent Plug in, download, and fly a helicopter for the very first time.  It's that simple...or will be once the details are fleshed out in 02 Patent Reform is Just Another Word for One Less Case to Lose The controversy over patent reform heats up as the Congress re-visits new legislation. From Best Mode's Patent Reform is Just Another Word for One Less Case to Lose - Patent Waves February 27 Citigroup Makes Money the Old Fashion Way, They Patent It! When you own 30% of a global financial services company, like you and I now do, it's a good idea to take a look under the hood, kick the tires and check-out what's in the trunk.  And look what Citigroup has here, a patent on a "synthetic currency transaction network", US Patent 7,020,626 Inside Money. 26 "In the course of history, decapitated heads had served as symbols..." Lost in Translation Best Mode looks at how a patent's text may not always provide insight into the patent's function "Lost in Translation" 20 Facebook Steps in it and Causes Some Waves... "Hours before Facebook executives decided late Tuesday to reverse a new and controversial user policy, an unnamed Facebook executive had made a deal with a leading Internet privacy group to hold off filing a complaint with a federal agency against the company. "  From Best Mode's 09 Patent Resources Group Wins Certification from Japan Patent Attorneys Association First Non-Japanese Firm to Open Doors to Japanese Patent Professionals, Students ALEXANDRIA, VA., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Patent Resources Group(PRG), the nation's leading patent education firm, has become the first non-Japanese legal education provider to earn c... 06 Join the new PIUG Discussion Forum The new PIUG Discussion Forum became available to the PIUG community on February 1st. See the Wiki Initial Signup Quick Reference Guide January 05 Registration is open for the 2009 PIUG Annual Conference in San Antonio Registration is open for the 2009 Annual Conference on "Searching for Patents Beyond Your Borders" to be held at the Hyatt Regency San Antonio, Texas, on May 2-7, 2009.  The deadline for the early bird registrati... 2008 December 27 New PIUG Discussion Forum - Register Now & Stay Connected! We are very pleased to announce that the PIUG Discussion List is transitioning to a new platform, effective February 1st, 2009! We encourage you to join the new PIUG Discussion Forum which is available now and explore all of the wonderful capabilities within the next few weeks. Check it out! 15 Thomson Innovation Release 2.0 The next generation of Thomson InnovationSM, the premier intellectual property (IP) research and analysis solution, is now available from Thomson Reuters. Thomson Innovation 2.0 enhancements include:   ThemeScape, a topographical visualization tool, and Clus... 08 December issue of KnowledgeLink newsletter now available The December KnowledgeLink newsletter from the Scientific business of Thomson Reuters is now available and includes the following articles: Global patent warming: tackling the surge in global patent applications One in a million: China provides the millionth DWPI record for 2008 Three ways to ma... November 19 Annual Membership Fees Increased for 2009 Effective January 1, 2009, the one-year membership fee is $50 (US) and includes the member benefits listed on the PIUG membership page. A discounted annual membership fee of $25 (US) is available for full-time students, full-time retirees and those unemployed at the time of renewa... PIUG Wiki training -- upcoming webinars (November 20, 21 and 24) The PIUG Wiki is now ready for active PIUG participation at wiki.piug.org. Besides the open PIUG space for general participation, we have these active committee, task force and team spaces: Annual Conference Committee Board of Directors Boston Biotech Committee Executive Secretary Task... 2009 PIUG Annual Conference in San Antonio The 2009 Annual Conference on "Searching for Patents Beyond Your Borders" will be held at the Hyatt Regency San Antonio, Texas, on May 2-7, 2009. See details on the conference wepages including the call for paper... September 28 First Wiki Tutorial on "How to use the PIUG wiki" The first wiki tutorial for PIUG Board, leadership and members of committees and task forces will be held on on Friday, October 3, 2008. The tutorial will be led by Tom Wolff and hosted by Don Walter of ThomsonReuters. Don will be sending invitations to the targeted participants. © 2013 The Patent Information Users Group, Inc. – Wikimaster: Tom Wolff (wikimaster @ piug.org) Adaptavist Theme Builder 4.3.4-beta5 Adaptavist Theme Builder 4.3.4-beta5  ·  Powered by Atlassian Confluence 4.2.11, the Enterprise Wiki  ·  Printed by Atlassian Confluence 4.2.11, the Enterprise Wiki.  ·  Report a bug  ·  Atlassian News