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    Patent Meetings, Conferences, and Seminars

    Added by Admin - Tom Wolff , last edited by Sherri Voebel on Jan 05, 2009 21:37

    Contributors are encouraged to add information on meetings, conferences and seminars.

    Please try to highlight specific topics or presentations that would be of particular interest to the patent information community, especially for meeting not otherwise targeted to our community.

    Information on past meetings will be retained in the wiki for future reference.

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    Date Location Upcoming Meeting/Conference/Seminar
         
    1-5 March 2009 Venice, Italy IPI-ConfEx
    Best Practices in Patent Information Management and Searching Techniques
    30-31 March 2009 The Hague Search Matters 2009 (EPO)  Preliminary Programme  Abstacts
    Program Highlights:
    Lectures: [How web 2.0 and 3.0 will influence patent information](L5); Search in machine translation databases - the EPO's experience(L6); Inside the mind of an EPO examiner (L9); Guest speaker: From noveltysearch to competitive intelligence [Gerard van der Ligt, Director of Business Intelligence, Phillips] (L7).
    Workshops: panese classification schemes (G10); Searching Chinese prior art (G11);  Searching Korean and Taiwanese prior art (G12); 1000 ways to name your chemical compound (S18); Search in complex galenics (S19); Parameter claims in the field of polymers (S22);  Organometallic compounds (S23); Homogenous catalysts: new technologies and new search tools (S24); Nanotechnology (S25) Registration closing date: 27 February 2009. Onsite participation costs: 300€ / 600€. participation online via webcasts cost:150€.. Secure payment online accepted via Visa, Master Card or bank account details.
    Meeting Registration Webcast registration
    3-5 November 2009 Biarritz, France EPOPIC (EPO Patent Information Conference).
    No link available yet for the 2009 version. The only information available as of this moment is on the page for the 2008 version. Once the EPO creates a separate page for the 2009 conference it will probably located here.
    Date Location Previous Meeting/Conference/Seminar
    9-10 August 2007 Chicago, IL Intellectual Property Scholar Conference 2007 (IPSC 2007)
    Search for Tomorrow: The Patent Office's Growing Reliance on Technology to Locate Prior Art (Andrew Chin, Univ. of North Carolina School of Law) "... the rapidly growing reliance on keyword full-text search has reduced the breadth and diversity of patent prior art and, perhaps ironically, increased reliance on the U.S. Patent Classification System" " Power Point Audio Podcast Video Podcast Paper
    9-13 June 2008 Bologna, Italy Summer School "Economics and Management of Intellectual Property Rights" (University of Bologna) [EvPat Project: to review, improve and validate analytic models for the economic valuation of patents]
    Lectures: The Analysis of Patent Information (Davide Lingua, EPO) [basics; patent maps; patent statistics]; The Use of Patstat and Other Patent Databases (Davide Lingua, EPO) [PatStat is offline version of EPO DOCDB for academic and intergovenment research- ab]  Creating Patent Indicators with Multiple Information Sources(Grid Thoma,Univ. of Camerino/CESPRI) [Algorithmic matching assignee names with business directories listings] (see CESPRI Working Paper)  
    Student papers  Competitive intelligence using patent information: an application within Automatic ID Domain" (Giorgia Fregnan, Univerisità di Bologna) (see also thesis (it.), SCIP workshop)
    17-21 August 2008 Philadelphia, PA 236th ACS National Meeting
    6-11 September 2008 Boston, MA AIPPI's (the Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle) 41st World Intellectual Property Congress
    Q202: The impact of public health issues on exclusive patent rights
    Examination of national and international legislation and case law with regard to limitations of the exclusive rights conveyed by a patent for medicines or other medical or biological products (experimental use exceptions, the Bolar-type exception, parallel importing, individual prescription exceptions and compulsory licenses, right of government authorities).
    22-25 September 2008 Vienna, Austria 12th EPO Patent Information Beginners Seminar
    September 2008 Singapore 2008 Singapore Europe Asia Patent Info Conference (EAPIC)
    8-11 October 2008 Florence, Italy 11th FICPI Open Forum (The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys)
    19-22 October 2008 Nice, France ICIC 2008 (Infonortics)
    Topics: Tools for Competitive Intelligence (e.g., mining tools, visualisation tools, analysis tools, etc); Challenges for the information community over the next five years; Changes in the information environment for patents, innovation and intellectual property; Trends in Search Engines and Information Retrieval
    23-25 October 2008 Washington, DC 2008 AIPLA Annual Meeting
    24-29 October 2008 Columbus, OH 2008 ASIS&T Annual Meeting
    "People Transforming Information - Information Transforming People"
    28-30 October 2008 Stockholm, Sweden EPO Patent Information Conference 2008
    5-7 November 2008 Tokyo, Japan 2008 Patent Information Fair and Conference (Japanese; English Translation)
    9-13 November 2008 Europe The Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Medical Information Conference & Exposition 2008 (International Institute of Information Professionals)
    10-13 November 2008 Vienna, Austria 3rd EPO Patent Information Advanced Seminar
    3 December 2008 Aleksandria, VA, USA USPTO Action Group for he Biotechnology, Chemical, Pharmaceutical Sectors
    The biotechnology, chemical, and pharmaceuticals (BCP) technology groups at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office quarterly customer partnership meeting.
    From the program: Searching in Applications Containing Bio-Sequences; TC1600 Chemical Non-Statutory Double Patenting Examples; Personalized Medicine, etc.
    How to Read and Understand Case Law:The new training module for USPTO examiners (65 slides)(see also: http://www.patentdocs.org/2008/12/uspto-implements-new-program-to-teach-examiners-how-to-read-and-understand-case-law.html)
    2-4 December 2008 London ONLINE Information 2008
    16-19 December 2008 Tokyo, Japan NTCIR-7 Meeting and EVIA 2008
    Cluster 3: Patent translation and mining
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