Patent Information Users Group, Inc.The International Society for Patent Information Professionals |
Saturday, May 17 to Thursday, May 22, 2008
Hyatt Regency Crystal City at Reagan National Airport
2799 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, VA, USA 22202
Tel: +1 (703) 418-1234
The following workshops are being offered in conjunction with the PIUG 2008 Annual Conference. Please note that you must register separately for each workshop. As space is limited please register early. Early bird registration deadline for workshops is March 31. Regular registration fees apply thereafter or until the workshop fills up. Workshop schedule is subject to change.
Instructor |
Workshop |
Time |
Location |
Cost |
Registration |
Stephen Adams | Update On Worldwide Patent Database Coverage For The Searcher |
9:00am-12:30pm |
Jefferson | For Fee | PIUG SignUp123 |
Barry Brager |
1:00pm-5:00pm |
Jefferson | For Fee | PIUG SignUp123 | |
Dan Phelps |
I Didn't Know Excel Could Do That! |
Cancelled |
Cancelled | ||
LexisNexis | TotalPatent and PatentOptimizer, integrated IP solutions from LexisNexis |
1:00pm-3:00pm |
Lincoln | Free | Registration |
GenomeQuest | Managing Your Entire Sequence Patent Portfolio: Search, Analysis And Reporting Techniques |
1:00pm-2:00pm |
Roosevelt | Free | Registration |
BizInt | BizInt Smart Charts for Patents – The Next Generation |
2:30pm-4:00pm |
Roosevelt | Free | Registration |
Instructor |
Workshop |
Time |
Location |
Cost |
Registration |
FIZ Karlsruhe | The USPTO Genetic Sequence Database, USGENE, on STN | 9:00am-11:00am | Lincoln | Free | Registration |
Questel | QPAT – What Makes QPAT Unique? (presented by Questel) – Analyzing a Target Company’s Active Patent Portfolio – A Professional Search Scenario (presented by IBM) | 9:00am-11:00am | Jefferson | Free | Registration |
Minesoft | Minesoft Update: PatBase – Over 30 million families, new Asian data, Citation searching, new VizPat analysis software and latest PatentOrder options | 8:30am-9:30am | Roosevelt | Free | Registration |
Patent Insight Pro | Patent INSIGHT Pro & Visual iNSIGHT Pro – The Most Comprehensive Set of Powerful Analysis, Reporting and Visualization Tools That Require Just Search Expertise |
9:00am-10:00am | Capitol | Free | Registration |
Innography | Going Beyond Search: Correlating Multiple Data Sources for Licensing Analysis | 10:00am-11:00am | Roosevelt | Free | Registration |
Dolcera | Dolcera: Web 2.0 Tools for IP Research and Analysis | 11:00am-Noon | Capitol | Free | Registration |
Thomson Reuters | Thomson Innovation, the new standard in IP research and analysis, and Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI), and Dialog – including the latest enhancements to all these products | Noon-3:00pm | Regency E | Free | Registration |
Instructor |
Workshop |
Time |
Location |
Cost |
Registration |
CAS FIZ Karlsruhe |
STN Patent Forum | 8:30am-4:00pm | Lincoln | Free | Registration |
Lucy Akers Aalt van de Kuilen |
Basics of Patenting Processes and Approaches for Patent Searching |
9:00am-Noon | Jefferson | For Fee | PIUG SignUp123 |
Search Technology | Text Mining - Improving your VantagePoint on Patent Information | 9:00am-10:00am | Roosevelt | Free | Registration |
Patents Online | SumoBrain – A New Patent Search Releases to Market | 10:00am-11:00am | Prince William | Free | Registration |
Patent Insight Pro | Patent INSIGHT Pro & Visual iNSIGHT Pro – The Most Comprehensive Set of Powerful Analysis, Reporting and Visualization Tools That Require Just Search Expertise |
11:00am-Noon | Kennedy | Free | Registration |
USPTO | USPC Classification Search Strategies | 2 identical sessions: 10:00am-noon 1:00pm-3:00pm |
Arlington | Free | PIUG SignUp123 |