PIUG 2012 Annual Conference
An International Conference for Patent Information Professionals

View From a Mile High –
Best Practices in Analysis and Visualization of Patent Information

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Saturday April 28 – Thursday May 3, 2012

Denver Hilton City Center
(formerly Denver Marriott City Center)
1701 California Street
Denver, Colorado 80202
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PIUG 2012 Annual Conference Presentations – April 2012

PIUG Conference Plenary and Business Meeting presentation files are provided to PIUG members with permission of the presenters. Further distribution is limited to current PIUG members. PIUG is an organization of individuals and not companies, so sharing presentation files with colleagues who are not PIUG members is against PIUG policy. We welcome new members and renewals per the PIUG Membership Benefits page.

Abstracts, author biographies, and the full program are available on the Final Program page.

PIUG 2012 Annual Business Meeting presentation

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Plenary Presentations

Monday, April 30, 2012

Welcome, Anthony Trippe, PIUG Chair, 3LP Advisor

Keynote presentation: "Why I Hate Patents", Jason Mendelson, Managing Director, Foundry Group

Enabling New Search and Discovery via In-line Tagging of Patent Full Text, Stephen Boyer,* Thomas Griffin, Alfredo Alba, Su Yan, Ying Chen, W. Scott Spangler, W. Eric Louie, and W. Jeff Kreulen, IBM Almaden Research Center

Strategic Analysis of Large Portfolios Using Patent Quality and Relevance Statistics, Elvir Causevic, Ocean Tomo

Highly Scalable Techniques for Document to Document Comparison, Brian Cleary, The Interllective, Inc.

The Role of Agile Text Mining in Patent Search and Analysis, David Milward,* Chief Technology Officer, and Jeffrey Nauss, Linguamatics

Landscaping Beyond Analysis and Visualization: Strategic Business Integration, Tom Briscoe, Dako and Ric Snead, Product Specialist and Trainer, Thomson Reuters

If You Can’t Use It, Why Do It? Tailoring Client-Specific IP Analysis & Visualization, Barry Brager, Perception Partners, Inc.

Patent Landscape for Large Scale Biological Sequence Comparisons, Denis Bayada, GenomeQuest, Inc.

Landscape Analysis of Patent Space Based on Biological/Chemical Entities, W. Scott Spangler, IBM Almaden Research Center

Inherent Document Value, Jenny Qiu, Patentics.com

Use of Network Patent Analysis for Advanced Analysis of Patent Data, Mike Lloyd, Griffith Hack, Doris Spielthenner, Ambercite, and George Mokdsi, Griffith Hack

From Map-making to Exploration: Navigating Patent Landscapes at the Speed of Thought, Tyron Stading, Innography, Inc.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Visualizing Innovation Networks for Competitive Advantage, Nicole Quenneville, The Boston Consulting Group (Presentation is not available.)

Patent Analysis and Visualization: Today's Challenges and Opportunities, Nils Newman, Search Technology, Inc.

Micro Level Patent Analysis and Visualization of Sequence Data, Praguna Singh Sambyal and Ashish Nawani, Evalueserve

Beyond the Search Engine: Using Text Mining and Visualization to Explore and Organize Large Patent Document Sets, Michael Baycroft, IFI CLAIMS Patents Services

Patent Office Updates, Marla Grossman, Esq., Coalition for Patent and Trademark Dissemination

Case Law Update and Changes to the Board, Rick Neifeld, Neifeld IP Law, PC

CPC: EPO and USPTO's Joint Cooperative Patent Classification System, Jerry Lorengo, USPTO

Information Resources of the Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO), Khabibullo Fayazov, EAPO

Researching Russian Patents, Aleksandr Belinskiy, Patent Information Consultant

EPO’s Role from Raw Data to User Insight, Johannes Schaaf, EPO

Open Data: A Quest for the Holy Grail or a Wild Goose Chase?, Daniel Shalloe, European Patent Office

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

No Patent Left Behind – a Prerequisite in Biomedical Competitive Intelligence, Parthiban Srinivasan, Parthys Reverse Informatics

New Software Developments on Chemical Information Extraction from Patent Documents and Markush Structure Analysis, Wei (David) Deng, ChemAxon LLC

Using IP Legal Status as a Competitive Intelligence Tool, John Arenivar, 3M Company

The Emerging Field of Antibody-drug Conjugates Provides New Opportunities for Cross-discipline Searching, Leah Sandvoss, Manager – Patent Searching & Information, Pfizer, Inc.

Utilizing Patent Analytics for Competitive Advantage & Decision Making, Bob Stembridge, Thomson Reuters (Presentation is not available.)

Preparing Data for Analysis and Visualization from Multiple Patent Databases, John Willmore, BizInt Solutions, Inc.

Patent Cartography Redesigned: A New Generation of Patent Mapping Tools, Miguel Iglesias, Questel

Managing Customer Expectations in Analysis and Visualization Projects, Matthew McBride, Science IP

Patent Informationist at the US National Institutes of Health, Josh Duberman, NIH Library (Presentation is not available.)

From After Dark to Google Dark: A Search Odyssey, Kristine Atkinson, Boston Scientific Corporation

Is Prior Art Valuable Service? A Corollary to Searcher Certification, Robert Grantham, Reveal-IP LLC

One Step Closer Towards a Certification Scheme for the Patent Information Professional, Susanne Hantos, Davies Collison Cave

Determining the Strength of a Patent, Ron Kaminecki, Patent Attorney

Closing Remarks, Anthony Trippe, PIUG Chair, 3LP Advisor