Kartar joined PIUG in 2000 as patent information and searching took more importance in his professional career. He joined Landon IP in 2012 which became part of Clarivate through a couple of mergers and acquisitions where he is now responsible for management and execution of patent searches in the areas of Chemistry and Materials. Kartar has been an active volunteer for PIUG, starting as web page editor and continuing as Annual Conference Exhibits Committee chair and Annual Conference Program Committee Co-Chair.
Telephone: +1 248-697-7761 (US)
Email: kartar at ahkhs dot com
Devin Salmon is the Data Acquisition Manager at PatSnap where she supports the development and growth of relationships with PTOs, data providers, and services vendors. She focuses on curating high-quality, third-party content and content services into PatSnap’s platforms for IP, R&D, and other innovation professionals. Devin has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She began her career at the USPTO as an examiner in 2008, followed by two years as an Applications Engineer working for a small microfluidics company. In 2014,she joined IP.com as a Patent Analyst delivering novelty, FTO, and landscape studies for commercial clients. While at IP.com she was also a Client Success Manager and served as the “Voice of the Customer” for the development and content teams. Equipped with this experience, she realized a key component of improving patent tools is to work from within the tool providers. Additionally, during her time at IP.com she also served as a guest lecturer on patent information usage for university students, ran patent search basics training workshops, and spoke to a variety of audiences about leveraging AI for patent information users. In 2021, she joined PatSnap to bring her industry expertise to a new customer base while helping to propel PatSnap’s vision forward as a global leader in connected data and AI-powered technology.
Telephone: +1 541-740-0825 (US)
Email: oakesdev at gmail dot com
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Email: martha dot yates at bayer dot com
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Email: shelley dot pavlek at bms dot com
Victoria received her Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Notre Dame in 2016. While at the university, she worked in the areas of immunology, cancer biology, and infectious disease. During her time in the lab, Victoria began to transition her career interests to intellectual property and, in 2015, enrolled in a Master of Science in Patent Law program at the University of Notre Dame. Through participation in this program and subsequent internship at an office of technology transfer, she was taught the foundations of patent law, application drafting, and patent searching and analysis. Victoria Smith joined the Research & Development IP department at Novartis Institute of BioMedical Research in 2017.
Telephone: +1 617-871-3091 (US)
Email: victoria dot smith at novartis dot com
Barbara is currently the Patent and Scientific Analyst in the Amgen IPLaw group. Prior to joining Amgen in 2017, she was a Patent and Scientific Analyst at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research(NIBR) and an Information Scientist at Pfizer. She has a PhD inBiological Sciences from Emory University, a MS in Regulatory Affairsand Quality Assurance from Temple University, and a BS in Chemistry from RhodesCollege. She has been a member of PIUG since 2010 and has served on variousPIUG committees over the years, including the Biotechnology Conference PlanningCommittee and the Member Relations Committee. She is also a Qualified PatentInformation Professional (QPIP) and serves on the QPIP Accreditations Committee.
Telephone: +1 617-444-5356 (US)
Email: bmille02 at amgen dot com
Ron Kaminecki performs patent searches and instructs individuals on how to search patents. He is a Patent Attorney and an Adjunct Professor at the MS in Patent Law program at Notre Dame University School where he teaches patent searching. Next semester he will also teach a patent and trademark searching course at DePaul Law School. He has conducted technical and patent searches and has advised others on patent information since the mid-1970's. He worked as Manager of Patent Information at Abbott and also in various positions at Dialog, but has always worked with technical and patent information. He has a BS in Chemistry, an MS in Computer Science and a JD with a Certificate in Patent Law and is a co-inventor of a published patent application and a co-author of a NISO standard on a common command search language.
Telephone: +1 302-660-3275 (US)
Email: ron at kaminecki dot com
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Years | Chairperson | Vice-Chairperson | Secretary | Treasurer | Directors-at-Large / Immediate Past-chair |
1988-1990 | Mike Feider | Nancy Lambert | Pat Dorler | ||
1990-1992 | Edlyn Simmons | John Dudinyak | Nancy Lambert | Pat Dorler | |
1992-1994 | Andy Berks | Joseph DiSalvo | Nancy Lambert | Pat Dorler | |
1994-1996 | Suzanne Elsoffer | Vicky Veach | Elyse Turner | Pat Dorler | |
1996-1998 | Vicky Veach | Sandra Unger | Joan Rogers | Pat Dorler | |
1998-2000 | Sandra Unger | Steve Reynolds | Karen Wehner | Elaine Campbell | |
2000-2002 | Lucy T. Antunes | Ford Khorsandian | Sandy Smith | Suzanne Robins | Stuart Kaback Edlyn Simmons Sandra Unger |
2002-2004 | Lucy T. Antunes | Elyse Turner | Sandy Smith | Suzanne Robins | Stephen Adams Edlyn Simmons Sandra Unger |
2004-2006 | Elyse Turner | Suzanne Robins | Anne Marie Clark | Ken Koubek | Stephen Adams Lucy T. Antunes Edlyn Simmons Sandra Unger |
2006-2008 | Suzanne Robins | Heidi Stone | Ginger DeMille | Ken Koubek | Edlyn Simmons Elyse Turner Sandra Unger |
2008-2010 | Cynthia Barcelon-Yang | Doreen Alberts | Denise Fobare-DePonio | Ken Koubek | Edlyn Simmons Suzanne Robins Heidi Stone |
2010-2012 | Anthony Trippe | Denise Fobare-DePonio | Jim Brown | Ken Koubek | Cynthia Barcelon-Yang Heidi Stone Diane Wian (2010-2011) Dominic DeMarco (2011-2012) |
2012-2014 | Susanne Hantos | Jim Brown | Kimberly Miller | Ken Koubek | Anthony Trippe Cynthia Barcelon-Yang Dominic DeMarco |
2014-2016 | Elliott Linder | Stephen Adams | Bo Peng | Martha Yates | Cynthia Barcelon-Yang Susanne Hantos Ron Kaminecki |
2016-2018 | Martha Yates | Stephen Adams | Shelley Pavlek | Malcolm Hallam | Ron Kaminecki Elliott Linder Heather Simmons |
2018-2020 | Martha Yates | Shelley Pavlek | Rosanna Lindquist | Malcolm Hallam |
Ron Kaminecki |
2020-2022 | Shelley Pavlek | Kimberly Miller | Leah Sandvoss | Malcolm Hallam |
Ron Kaminecki |