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Recent PIUG-DF Posts     PIUG 2013 Annual Conference Presentations are online in the Members-only Section on 19 Dec, Admin - Tom Wolff wrote: PIUG 2013 Annual Conference Plenary and Business Meeting presentations are available for viewing   Current awareness covering PTAB decisions 7 hours ago, Roy Zimmermann wrote: Joyce, The USPTO website contains the current PTAB decisions and opinions, both precedential Why do A1 claims take precedent over B2 claims in the EPO data? 19 hours ago, Dominic DeMarco wrote: Could somebody (anybody) explain to me why the EPO preferentially displays the claims of applications UK PATMG Summer 2013 Meeting on 17 Jun, Jane List wrote:     The UK PATMG group is holding a half day patent information training and update meeting Workshop: Overview of Asian IP: patent sources and searching; 13 October 2013 on 17 Jun, Jane List wrote: Location:  ICIC Conference Vienna Date & Time:  Sunday 13th October 2013 Objectives This All Citations Are Not the Same – Exploring Examiner Citations from US Patent Documents – Parts 1 & 2 on 14 Jun, Anthony Trippe wrote: Hello Everyone, I have started writing a series of posts on examiner citations on US patent Supreme Court Decides Myriad Gene Patenting on 13 Jun, Kristine H. Atkinson wrote: It’s in—Supreme Court rules that naturally isolated genes can’t be patented—but cDNA can be. Read View All Topics

Recent PIUG Blog Posts Mike Lloyd posted on Jun 19, 2013 Positively identifying white space opportunities - case study in the smartphone space As PIUG users would be fully aware, patent landscaping is becoming an increasingly important tool to extracting the wealth of information from the 80 odd million patent publications, with it potential to show the leading areas of activity, patent owners and patents.  However when talking to clients, it is becoming clear that these clients want to know more than what is hot - they also want to know what is not - not yet, that is. In other words,… Anthony Trippe posted on Jun 08, 2013 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 several new tools and sites have either entered, or will soon be entering the patent analytics field,…   View PIUG Blog archives

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