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Recent PIUG-DF Posts Deadline February 3rd - 2012 PIUG Annual Conference - 2nd Call for Papers on 10 Jan, Anthony Trippe wrote: We are pleased to announce the 2nd call for papers for the PIUG 2012 Annual Conference http://www.piug.org/2012/an12meet.php to be held at the Denver Marriott City Center in Denver, CO on April 28 May 3, 2012. The theme for this 24th annual conference is "View ... PIUG 2012 Biotechnology Meeting - Program Announced on 06 Jan, Monica L Weiss-Nolen wrote: Good idea Lucy. The speaker names are now added. Monica Russian FTO search work on 19 Jan, Kristin Whitman wrote: Hi Dominic, I wanted to add that Landon IP has Russian language search capabilities.  Our experienced inhouse searchers are native speakers, and we access full text Russian collections in Cyrillic from multiple wellregarded sources ... REGISTER NOW! Search Matters - EPO, The Hague - 19 & 20 March 2012 on 18 Jan, Dr Jeremy Philpott wrote: We are pleased to announce that our annual "Search Matters" seminar is open for registration for just 5 more weeks. In response to participant feedback we are increasing the number of workshops available from four to six, whilst still offering eight lectures ... AALL Requires Speaker for Patents 101 Webinar on 13 Jan, Kristin Whitman wrote: Hello everyone, I think I have mentioned in the past that I am involved with the American Association of Law Libraries Intellectual Property Group. This is a group of librarians who have some experience with patent searching however, every year we ... Death of the Accelerated Examination at the hands of Track 1 on 10 Jan, Dominic DeMarco wrote: many of us had guessed, it appears as if the new Track 1 Prioritized Examination at the USPTO is sticking a fork in the not very popular Accelerated Examination procedure. There is a post over on the Kappos blog (last week) regarding the matter: Link http://www.uspto.gov/blog ... Reminder - Early Bird Registration for the IPI-ConfEx 2012 in Barcelona Ends This Friday on 06 Jan, Natasha Kay wrote: Dear Colleagues: We are pleased to announce the availability of the highly anticipated 2012 IPIConfEx detailed daybyday programme.  To view the programme please visit the conference website, www.ipiconfex.com http://www.ipiconfex.com/ . The 9th annual International Patent Information Conference & Exposition ... View All Topics

Recent PIUG Blog Posts 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 offers four modules for importing patent : ... 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 = X, Y,... 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. Prior Art - ... 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 mentioned chemical structures explicitly (e... 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 12 million imag... Matheo Patent Training [Matheo Software|http://www.matheo-software.com] organizes the [Matheo Patent|http://www.matheo-software.com/en/products/matheo-patent.html] next training session : *February 9, 2012 in Marseille (France)* *{_}Training Content{_}* * Strategy interrogation of databases patent (Espa@cenet and USPTO) * Create a project with Matheo... 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 databas... View PIUG Blog archives

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