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Contributors are encouraged to add information on future meetings, conferences and seminars. Many of these meetings are not specifically targeted to our user community. Please try to highlight specific topics or presentations that would be of particular interest to the patent information community. Please limited posting for selected, the most interesting topics and provide link to the full program and other details. Please provide direct link to copies presentations, if available. Please avoid information about meeting logistics, social events and registration details (except notes that event is free-of-charge).
Contributors are encourage to comment changes, so it would be easy to others to trace what addition is made and who is an contributor (see examples in page history).
Information on past meetings is moved regularly to the Previous Patent Information Meetings, Conferences, and Seminars wiki page. Users should update that page with links to conference proceedings or other information that will help users for future reference.
Entries on meetings that have already taken place are archived on Previous Patent Information Meetings, Conferences, and Seminars 2009 and Previous Patent Information Meetings, Conferences, and Seminars 2007-2008
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| Date |
Location |
Upcoming Meeting/Conference/Seminar |
| 2010 |
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| 16 January 2010 |
Tokyo, Japan |
SMIPS, Society for the Management of Intellectual Properties, Location: Natonal Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. Website: http://www.smips.jp |
| 19 January 2010 |
Atlanta, GA |
SCIP Atlanta Chapter Meeting
Patent Information to Enhance Your Corporation's Competitive Intelligence Programs (Jackie Hutter, JD, Chief IP Strategist, the Hutter Group) |
| 25 -29 January 2010 |
Geneva, Switzerland |
Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (WIPO)
Preliminary Studies: Dissemination of Patent Information (SCP/13/5 and SCP/14/3); Opposition Systems (SCP/14/5) and Exclusions from Patentable Subject Matter and Exceptions and Limitations to the Rights (SCP/13/3)
Certain Aspects of National/Regional Patent Laws (SCP/14/6 Annex I) (prior art, novelty, inventive step (obviousness), grace period, non-patentable subject matter, etc.) (Annex II to Report on the International Patent System (Report SCP/12/3 Rev.2 (Feb. 2009)) |
| 27 - 30 January 2010 |
La Quinta, CA |
AIPLA 2010 Mid-Winter Institute
Strategic Uses of Patent Prior Art Research in View of Budget Constraints (Christopher E. Kondracki, Specialized Patent Services, Arlington, VA) |
| 8-10 February 2010 |
Geneva, Switzerland |
International Patent Classification (IPC) Workshop (WIPO)
From provisional program: Simplification of the revision and publication procedures of the IPC; New publication platform of the IPC on the Internet; Common Hybrid Classification project of IP5; Use of the IPC in the industry; IPC and commercial databases
The event will be open to the general public |
| 8-10 February 2010 |
Geneva, Switzerland |
Meeting of International Authorities under the PCT, 17th (PCT/MIA/17) (WIPO)
See meeting documents Third Party Observations (Proposal allows cite prior art, informaly via web-form, free-of-charge, anonymously ['community-based review']); Input into the Study on the Future of the PCT (also includes: Making International Search and Preliminary Examination More Useful; Collaborative Search and Examination; Accessibility of Int. Search and Preliminary Examination); Informal Clarification Before Search (when no meaningful search can be made) |
| 10 February 2010 |
Cambridge, MA |
PIUG 2010 Boston Biotechnology Meeting : "Managing Biosequences: Retrieval to Results". Hosted by Amgen.
Speakers: Rob Austin (FIZ), Jim Brown (FIZ), Gin-Yun L Eggerichs (CAS), Jennifer McDowall (EBI), Seth Mendelson (Novartis), Ashish Nawani (Evalueserve), David L. Osterbur (Harvard University), Adrienne Shanler (Shanler Info.), Joop Swinkels (Merck), Sunny Wang (Sanofi aventis), John Willmore (BizInt)
"Patent Law Basics for Patent Searchers" (11 Feb 2010) |
| 13 February 2010 |
Tokyo, Japan |
SMIPS, Society for the Management of Intellectual Properties, Location: Natonal Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. Website: http://www.smips.jp |
| 7-10 March, 2010 |
Lisbon, Portugal |
IPI-ConfEx 2010 - "Best Practices in Patent Information Management and Searching Techniques"
2010 Program Highlights: IPI MasterClass™ Presentation - Trials for the Patent Searcher - an Introduction to Litigation Sources (Stephen Adams, Magister Ltd)
Presentations: Current Practices in Searching for Asian Patent Documents (Christina Winzek, Syngenta); [Formulation Patent Searching] (Aldo Burton, GSK); Recent Developments Concerning the IPC (Antonios Farassopoulos, WIPO), etc.
Posters: [Patents on Essential Drugs in Less Developed Countries] (Josh Duberman, NIH), etc.
IPI-Tutorials™: Best Practice and Techniques in Validity Searching (Gerhard Fischer, Syngenta); How Text Mining Is Changing the Way You Search (Wolfgang Thielemann, Bayer Schering Pharma AG); Patent Analysis Using Visualisation Techniques; [National Patent Office databases vs. Inpadoc] (Gerben Gieling, Synthon) |
| 10-12 March, 2010 |
Washington, DC |
2010 SCIP International Annual Conference
Interactive Breakout Sessions: The Death of the CI Professional: The Changing Paradigm for Competitive Intelligence Functions and Practitioners (Facilitator: Ken Sawka, Outward Insights); Using CI to Enter Foreign Markets (Raoul Farcot, Cipher Systems); Using Patent Intelligence to Benchmark Against Competitors (Ric Snead, Thomson Reuters)
Pre-Conference Workshops: Technology Mapping, Competitive Technical Intelligence and Strategic Decisions (Gary Oosta, Patent Insights, see also workshop leader's other presentations: RNAi Technology Trend Mapping Highlights and Competitive Technical Intelligence Workshop) |
| 11 March 2010 |
Webinar |
DWPI Webinar: Supercharge your patent research (Presenter: Bob Stembridge, Thomson Reuters)
Learn 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 more confident in your decisions. Two sessions will be given at 10:00am GMT (London) and 2:00pm EST (New York). Free registration is available at http://ip.thomsonreuters.com/supercharge/index.html |
| 13 March 2010 |
Tokyo, Japan |
SMIPS, Society for the Management of Intellectual Properties, Location: Natonal Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. Website: http://www.smips.jp |
| 21-25 March, 2010 |
San Francisco, CA |
Spring 2010 ACS National Meeting (Online Technical Program with abstracts)
CINF Symposiums: Visual Analysis of Chemical Data, Future of Scholarly Communication
Selected presentation: Chemical entity extraction and interpretation (Daniel Lowe, Peter Murray-Rust, Univ. Cambridge_) (OSCAR, under investigation in EPO); Extracting and analyzing compound names and images from [patent] documents (Hugo Villar, Altoris, Inc) (desktop software ChemDox, see application note)(COMP);
CAS Registry (Matthew Toussant, CAS); CWM Global Search (Alexander Kos, AKos GmbH); IUPAC InChI project: A status report (Steve Heller, Alan McNaught, InChI Fathers); Integrated language for chemical publication (Peter Murray-Rust, Univ. Cambridge); Chem_BLAST (Chemical Block Layered Alignment of Substructure Technique) (Talapady N. Bhat, NIST); Visualization and analysis of bioisosteric analogs generated with BROOD (Joseph Corkery, OpenEye)
Tools for the scholarly communication lifecycle (Alex Wade, Lee Dirks, Microsoft) (incl. Libra Academic Search, FacetLens, etc.); Challenges facing the STM industry (Martin O'Malley, Elsevier, see 2009 ICIC talk)
Contextual visualization of biological and chemical networks using linked open life science data (Dazhi Jiao, Ying Ding, David Wild, Univ Indiana Bloomington) (also talks on Aggregative Web Services for drug discovery and Chem2bio2RDF)
CHAL Symposiums: Changing The Landscape of Patent Law (Inequitable conduct, "internationalization" of infringement issues; US patent reform); In re Bilski (method of treatment claims, Bilski-related invalidity issues); Careers in Patent Law; Other topics(On-sale/publication bar; utility models v. patents, German IP practice; provisional patent applications; global chemical patent prosecution; strategic use of printed publications; Biofuels patent protection; Nanotechnology patent law); Current profile of "green" intellectual property in the chemical arts (Stuart Soffer, IPriori, Inc)
Exhibitors Workshops: Pipeline Pilot (Accelrys); DiscoveryGate (Symyx Technologies); Reaxys (Elsevier)
ACS Short Course:Practical Approaches to Patents and Other Forms of Intellectual Property |
| 28 March, 2010 |
Milton Keynes, UK |
The 1st International Workshop on Advances in Patent Information Retrieval (AsPIRe'10), collocated with ECIR 2010 [32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval]
Topics: Semantic Annotation of Patents; Patent Claim Analysis; Ontology Engineering
Corpus Analysis; Patent Categorization; Clustering and Visualization; Patent Image Search; Bibliographic Search, Network Analysis; Machine Translation; Cross-lingual Information Retrieval; Digital Libraries for Patent Literature; Case Studies; Challenges in Patent Search; Information Need of the Patent Searcher
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| 11-13 April 2010 |
Philadelphia, PA |
P&HT Spring meeting 2010 (SLA Division Of Pharmaceutical And Health Technology)
Semantic Search Engines for Health Information (Tamas Doszkocs, NLM, see NIH Library AllPLus Search Demo powered by HealthMash and 2009 ICLM talk); PDR (Pharma Documentation Ring) (Henning Nielsen, NovoNordisk/ President, PDR) |
| 12-13 April 2010 |
The Hague, Netherlands |
Search Matters 2010 (EPO Patent Academy) (preliminary program & abstracts) Targets patent information professionals from industry with at least 2 years experience (See recordings of Search Matters 2007-2009 as EPO's e-learning modules)
Lectures: EPOQUE - principles to improve prior art search (L2)(Marc Adriaenssens) [see also 2009 presentation]; Common Hybrid Classification (L4) [IP5 project ] (Pierre Held & Jesus Goya); Free patent searching in web sources: a changing landscape (L5)[Web 2.0 and 3.0] (Paul Schwander); EP RegisterPlus (L6) (Nigel Clarke)[toward Pan-European legal status data exchange and searching]; Limiting the search to the "technical" features of the invention (L7)(Leonardo Alonso Goikolea); [Raising the bar [on patent quality] (L8) (response to objections raised in the Search Opinion is required as a prerequisite of the substantive examination process) [see also 2009 presentation]; What's new in Search? (ESSR, Extended European search report and ESOP, European Search Opinion)
Workshops: Japanese classification schemes (G12); Chinese prior art (G13); Taiwanese & Korean prior art (G14); Non-patent literature (including Google Scholar, Scirus, Google Book Search, etc.)(G15); Proving publication dates [for documnets published electronically] (G16); When to stop a search [pointers which can be used to determine the end of a search] (G17); The problem solution approach (PSA): a powerful tool at the search stage [key notions: Inventive Step, Closest Prior Art (CPA) and PSA] (G18); Inside the mind of an EPO examiner [see also 2009 presentation] (G19); How to handle disclaimers at search stage (G20); Searching complex applications (no search" or an "incomplete search")(G21); Searching in broad-ranging technical fields (incl. non-unity and complex applications) (G22); The Telecom classification jungle (S23); Computer-implemented inventions (CII)(S24); Genetic diagnostics (S26); Finding the RNA in the haystack (S27); Searching biotechnological method claims (S28); Sequence search strategies in biotechnology (S29); [Pubmed Search]); "At-the-desk" exchange with an EPO examiner |
| 22-23 April 2010 |
Vienna, Austria |
East meets West 2010 (Preliminary program, Registration)
Progress in Asian patent data collections (EPO, commercial sector, users as change drivers); Country focus: Malaysia; IP India - new offering (see IPIRIS; IP situation in China & India)
Discussion Forums: What industry needs; Asian patent documentation; Common Hybrid Classification for searching Asian data; Cross-language searches; Patent mapping; TK; Legal status from Asia; New Chinese patent law in practice
Poster Session. Product Presentations. "Heurigen" evening.
Pre-conference Training: European vs. Asian patent systems; Classification matters (IPC, ECLA, USPC FI/F-terms); Advanced features of free Asian databases (JPO, SIPO, KIPO, TIPO) (coverage, time delays, special and advanced features, use the Japanese, Chinese or Korean interfaces to minimise possible gaps in coverage) |
| 29 April - 2 May 2010 |
Cleveland, Ohio |
AIIP 24th Annual Conference [Association of Independent Information Professionals]
Workshop: SEC Filings [source on biographies, executive networks, trusts, etc] (Marge King, InfoRich Group, Inc.) |
| 1-6 May 2010 |
Baltimore, MD |
PIUG 2010 Annual Conference: "Moving Targets: Current & Future Best Practices and Opportunities for Patent Information Professionals"
Call For Papers (Submission Deadline: January 29, 2009) |
| 6-8 May 2010 |
New York, NY |
AIPLA 2010 Spring Meeting |
| 20-21 May 2010 |
Darmstadt, Germany |
56th PDG AMC 2010 (Patent Documentation Group Annual Member Conference) (Open to PDG Member companies only, see also Brief Report to PIUG on 2009 (55th) PDG AMC ) |
| 26-27 May 2010 |
Genoa, Italy |
AIDB Annual Conference "Patent information for the technology and research activity" (Italian Association of Patent Documentalists, AIDB, Associazione Italiana Documentalisti Brevettuali) |
| 31 May - 2 June 2010 |
Dresden, Germany |
PATLIB2010 "Patent information - a business tool"
Channel A: Tools (Advanced experience with "existing" tools); Channel C: Patent practice (understanding how EPO examiners search, changes and development in patent law, etc.) |
| 31 May - 4 June 2010 |
Vienna, Austria |
IRF Symposium; [Information Retrieval Facility] LinkedIn Group [Focus on methodology and evaluation in patent searching and retrieval, Target: Heads of IP departments, patent searchers, patent attorneys, patent offices, etc.]
Interfacing: Breaking the cycle of command line use? (Joemon Jose, Univ.of Glasgow and Anthony Trippe, 3LP Advisors) [sophisticated user interfaces, w/o the use of lists of individual commands]; Cross-lingual patent retrieval and translation _(Jian-Yun Nie, Univ. of Montreal and Karim Benzineb, Simple Shift, Switzerland); Image retrieval (Monika Hanelt, Agfa Graphics and Stefanos Vrochidis, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece) [retrieval of technical drawings and table extraction from patent documents in pdf format]
Chemical patents: Towards genuinely effective searching? (Peter Willett, Univ. of Sheffield and Stephen Adams, Magister Ltd., UK) [indexing of chemical patents, state-of-the-art technologies, open source initiatives]
Workshop:: CLEF-IP and TREC-CHEM evaluation tracks
Tutorials: Insight into the various functionalities of visual workflows for IP experts
Collocated:
1st IRF Conference (CFP: Applications of IR, includingPatent processing for IP, Scientific paper search) [Submission deadline: 8 January 2010]
PatOlympics-"Interactive evaluation platform where prototypes of state-of-the-art patent retrieval systems will be tested and driven to their limits by patent retrieval professionals", include two PatSpots: 1) ChemAthlon [a natural language request containing chemical formulas, interactions and/or numeric ranges] and 2) Cross-Language Retrieving [Registration deadline: 31 January 2010] |
| 10-11 June 2010 |
Ilmenau, Germany |
PATINFO Meeting (32. Kolloquium der Technischen Universität Ilmenau über Patentinformation)*„Methoden und Werkzeuge gegen Barrieren und Rückstände im gewerblichen Rechtsschutz" [*Methods and tools against obstacles and backlogs in IP (MT)] |
| 13 - 16 June 2010 |
New Orleans, LA |
SLA 2010 Annual Conference ""Entering SLA's Next Century: Let the Good Times Roll!" [Special Library Association]
Program Highlights:
Workshops: [Finding Information about Medical Devices] (Sandra Baker, Canon Communication; Patrick Clapp, QIAGEN; Marlene S Bobka, FOI Services, Inc.); Emerging Markets: India, Asia Pacific (Gayle Gossen, Dow Jones; P.K.Jain, Institute of Economic Growth, India; Robin Bew, EIU, UK); Emerging Markets: Africa/Middle East/Russia/Latin America (Jamie Davies, Business Monitor Int., UK; Pat Wynne, AstraZeneca); Chemical Information Sources (Dawn French, Millennium Inorganic Chemicals)
Industry Research (Jennifer Boettcher, Georgetown Univ.); Business Research (Ann Cullen, Harvard Business School; Eileen Abels, Drexel Univ.]; Basics of Financial Statements (Karen MacDonald, Atlanta, GA)
Social Sites and Networks for the Serious Researcher (Robert Berkman, The Information Advisor); Human Source Collection (CI Certificate Program)(Cynthia Cheng Correia, Knowledge inForm, Inc.) |
| 15-18 June 2010 |
Tokyo, Japan |
The 8th NTCIR Workshop [NTCIR (Japan NII Test Collection for IR Systems) Project]
Patent Mining Task (Research Papers Classification [in terms of IPC], Technical Trend Map Creation];
Patent Translation Task (Translation Subtask; Retrieval Subtask (invalidity search task), topics in English, target Documents in Japanese] |
| 10 - 13 July 2010 |
Denver, CO |
103rd AALL Annual Meeting [American Association of Law Libraries] |
| 19-23 July 2010 |
Geneva, Switzerland |
33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference [ACM Association for Computing Machinery/ SIGIR Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval]
(Call for Papers: Other Applications (e.g... patent search) |
| 22-26 August 2010 |
Boston, MA |
240th ACS National Meeting [American Chemical Society]
CINF Symposiums: Biologics and Biosimilars: One in the Same?; Semantic Web in Chemistry; Structure Representation; 9th Quadrennial TriSociety Symposium (Abstract Submission Deadline: March 28, 2010
SCHB Small Business Guide to Intellectual Property
MEDI Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Blogging: An Important Means of Non-Traditional Scientific Communication |
| 20 - 23 September 2010 |
Padua, Italy |
CLEF-IP'10 (at CLEF 2010 Conference)
Tasks are planned for 2010: (1) Prior Art Task: find patent documents that constitute prior art to a given patent application. (2) Classification Task: classify a given patent document according to the IPC and/or ECLA. |
| 19-21 October 2010 |
Lausanne, Switzerland |
EPO Patent Information Conference 2010 |
| 21-24 October 2010 |
Washington, DC |
2010 AIPLA Annual Meeting |
| 24-27 October 2010 |
Vienna, Austria |
2010 ICIC, "The International Conference on Trends for Scientific Information Professionals" (Infonortics and Dr. Haxel Congress and Event Management GMBH)
Call for papers: Patents as challenges for search / mining / intelligence; Tools for competitive intelligence (e.g, mining tools, visualisation tools, analysis tools, etc.); etc.
The Programme Advisory Committee includes Pierre Buffet, Heinz-Gerd Kneip, Jacques Michel, Alexander Mullen, Minoo Philipp, Martin White, etc.
Submission Deadline: 20 February 2010 |
| ca. 25-29 October 2010 |
Toronto, Canada |
3rd International CIKM Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval - PaIR'10 (collocated with the CIKM 2010 in October 25-29, 2010)
"The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum for Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management scientists as well as Patent Retrieval experts from industry to study the next generation of patent search tools" |
| 7-10 November 2010 |
Seville, Spain |
Pharma-Bio-Med™ 2010 Conference & Exposition
Selected topics: Text mining and visualisation; Scientific and technical literature; Techniques for searching and handling pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and biomedical information; Clinical trials information; Drug pipeline information; Competitor and business information; EMEA/FDA sources
Submission Deadline: March 26, 2010 |
| 8-11 November 2010 |
Vienna, Austria |
4th EPO Patent Information Advanced Seminar
Peculiarities in the patent systems of EPC member states and the USPTO; Opposition and appeal procedures; Classification (IPC & ECLA); Worldwide patent family and legal status information (espacenet, OPS); ESPACE databases and MIMOSA software; Patent statistics for business use; Fit for Asia (Japan, China, Taiwan and Korea); Pharmaceutical Patents |
| 10-12 November 2010 |
Tokyo, Japan |
2010 Patent Information Fair & Conference |
| 16-19 November 2010 |
Gaithersburg, MD |
2010 TREC-CHEM Workshop at 2010 TREC Conference [The Text Retrieval Conference]
Include Chemical IR Track (TREC-CHEM).
CHEM-TREC tracks considered by organizers in 2010: Prior art search; Technology survey; Image recognition; Entity retrieval; Passage retrieval; Interactive retrieval (see 2009 TREC-CHEM report)
Note: TREC Conf. open only to TREC Tracks participants |
| 30 November - 2 December 2010 |
London |
ONLINE Information 2010 |
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| ca 14-18 March 2011 |
Bangkok, Thailand |
International Information conference on Search, Data Mining and Visualization(II-SDM) (Infotronics) New!
"...an international forum for those in the field of advanced search applications, data and text mining, and visualization technology. The primary focus is on the exploitation of patent information, ... but ...also analyses the requirements of specialists in all scientific and technical information".
Call for Offers of Presentations:"... real contributions to the field of new trends, mainly in patent and information searching, analysis and data mining, or in furthering the understanding of the meeting participants in the general search tools and mining areas. News of entirely new products, or beta versions of substantial upgrades to existing products may be ... of interest to meeting attendees"
Topics: New tools for competitive intelligence; Advances in patent searching, mining, mapping and analysis, Search personalization, recommendation engines, collaborative filtering, etc.
Submission Deadline: October 18, 2010. |
| 27-31 March 2011 |
Anaheim, CA |
241st ACS National Meeting |
| 30 March - 2 April 2011 |
Seattle, WA |
2011 SCIP Annual Conference (Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals) |
| 7-10 April 2011 |
Vancouver, WA |
AIIP 25th Annual Conference (Association of Independent Information Professionals) |
| 12 - 14 May 2011 |
San Francisco, CA |
AIPLA Spring Meeting |
| 23 - 26 July 2010 |
Philadelphia, PA |
104rd AALL Annual Meeting [American Association of Law Libraries] |
| 28 Aug. - 1 Sept.r 2011 |
Denver, CO |
242nd ACS National Meeting |
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