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Recent PIUG-DF Posts

		PIUG NE 2010 Conference - Registration is Now Open on 16 Aug, Zhifu Shu wrote: Yuri, The Tuesday program is final.  For Wednesday, so far Dialog will have a morning workshop and Questel will have both a morning and an afternoon session.  We will have better info re other workshops by the end of this Month.&nbsp ...
		IPI-ConfEx 2011 - Date, Venue and Call for Papers 4 hours ago, Natasha Kay wrote: IPIConfEx 2011 Date and Venue The next International Patent Information Conference & Exposition, IPIConfEx 2011, will be held at the Hotel Barceló Renacimiento in Seville, Spain, from 6{}th \ 9{}th March 2011.  Seville was rated the top choice ...
		PCT national phase entry in the US on 18 Aug, Edlyn Simmons wrote: One of the interesting things about the PAIR records for these two patents is that the patent term adjustments were not calculatedthe usual way by subtracting the applicant's delay in prosecution from the PTO's delay.  There no delays listed at all, just the number of days of PTA ...
		PIUG "Patent Information Fundamentals" course, formerly offered by PERI, to be held in New Brunswick, NJ, October 14-15, 2010 - Registration Open on 11 Aug, Edlyn Simmons wrote: Registration is now open for PIUG's "Patent Information Fundamentals" course.  To register, click on this link: http://www.piug.org/registration.taf?confid=52 http://www.piug.org/registration.taf?confid=52. Patent Information Fundamentals was formerly offered by PERI ...
		Request Vendor Updates on 07 Aug, Sherri Voebel wrote: Vendors: I'm relocating to the Middle East and request that all vendors send updated product brochures to me at my new business address listed in my personal space. Please send all materials to the PO Box Address, not my personal ...
		ACS Committee on Chemical Abstract Service - Upcoming National ACS Meeting in Boston on 02 Aug, Pat Dedert wrote: ACS Joint BoardCouncil Committee on CAS (CCAS) is an ACS governance committee charged with acting as an information conduit between the ACS membership and CAS management. It meets twice annually, in conjunction with the two ACS National Meetings. This year, under ...
		Feedback on patent analysis tools on 29 Jul, Kristian Luoto wrote: Hello Alice; I have recently came across some tools that may be of interest to you. Questel is soon offering some interesting enhancements to their analyzing package of the QPAT/OrbitPortal. Wait and see... A company called Treparel does ...

Recent PIUG Blog Posts

1. 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 choose data to r...
2. 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 31{*}{*}{^}st{^}* *August 2010.* The Thomson Reuters IP Solutions Customer Conference is being held at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center from Octobe...
3. 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-adde...
4. 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 Gleevec, as reported...
5. 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 Documentation Group Flehenberg 72 4248...
6. 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.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/08/patent-litigation-alerts.html It's still in "beta" but he gave me a set of 20 invites to pass along t...
7. Patent Information Meetings, Conferences, and Seminars pages have been updated - August 2010
   The [Patent Information Meetings, Conferences, and Seminars|PIUG:Patent Information Meetings, Conferences, and Seminars] page has been recently updated. I. Program highlights related to patent information have been added to the following [forthcoming events|http://wiki.piug.org/x/vIAgAQ|Patent Information Meetings, Conferences,...
8. 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 Markush structure enumeration ...

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