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Recent PIUG-DF Posts     2013 IPI Award Recipient Named! on 01 Apr, Suzanne Robins wrote: Sandra, Congratulations on being honored with the 2013 IPI Award!  It is because of your     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 The Linear Law of Patent Analysis Revisited on 17 May, Anthony Trippe wrote: Hello Everyone, Some of you have heard me talk about the Linear Law of Patent Analysis at   Call For PIUG Newsletter Submissions Spring 2013 on 16 May, Martha Yates wrote: Kim, That would be tremendous.  Thank you very much.  There is really no size constraint, PIUG NE 2013 Conference Call for Papers on 16 May, Lucy Akers wrote: The PIUG-NE Conference Committee is pleased to announce the call for papers and the call for Venezuelan Patent Agent Recommendations on 13 May, Kristin Whitman wrote: Hello, In our experience, retrieving Venezuelan patent copies is a long and difficult process. ePCT Docketing Best Practices on 07 May, Richard Neifeld wrote: Reposted to the PIUG-DF at the suggestion of the Admin. I posed a question at the annual View All Topics

Recent PIUG Blog Posts Sophie Ames posted on May 15, 2013 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.… Admin - Tom Wolff posted on May 13, 2013 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: AIA Workshop by the USPTO: "First Inventor to File Final Rules and Guidelines" CPC Workshop by USPTO and EPO Members-only access to the PIUG 2013 Annual Conference Plenary and Business Meeting presentations is described elsewhere. Tom Wolff,PIUG Wikimaster,… Jim Brown posted on May 13, 2013 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 techniques to perform statistical analysis in both databases and answers fundamental questions like “which parameters to choose for which patent analysis”.…   View PIUG Blog archives

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