PIUG 2017 Annual Conference Presentations – May 2017

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PIUG 2017 Annual Business Meeting presentation

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Patent Office Workshops

EPO Online Products Roadshow Introduction, Nigel Clarke, European Patent Office

EPO Roadshow Search Find Watch, Nigel Clarke, European Patent Office

4th EPO-USPTO CPC Annual Meeting with Industry Users, Nigel Clarke, European Patent Office

Plenary Presentations

Monday, May 22, 2017

Keynote Address: Goals, Tasks, and Information Retrieval, Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers University

Search Technology: Patent Information from Our Vantage Point [Emerald Sponsor Presentation – Search Technology], Nils Newman, Search Technology

Finessing Patent Related Information – Utilizing New Resources Using "Old School" Techniques, Barbara Miller, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR)

Machine Translation of Patents. Here to Stay?, Jane List, Extract Information Limited, and Editor-in-Chief World Patent Information

Quick Automation or Laborious Manual Tagging – Finding the Right Balance, Andrea Davis

Bringing Clarity to your IPR+D Search and Intelligence through Right Combination of Technology and Human Expertise [Emerald Sponsor Presentation – Evalueserve], Anoop Sankar, Evalueserve

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Neural Networks: What Does All of This Have to Do With Patent Analytics?, Srinivasan Parthiban, Parthys Reverse Informatics

Single Pass Numerical Matching – a Linguistic Solution to Numerical Searching, David Woolls, CFL Software Limited

Finding Formulations: Challenges and Opportunities, Matthew McBride, ScienceIP (CAS)

PATENTSCOPE Functionalities, Iustin Diaconescu, WIPO

Prior Art Searches at Various Levels of Product Pyramid – A Startup Perspective, Vivek Doulatani, Ather Energy Pvt. Ltd

Patent Information Analysis for Creating New Business, Jo Sagawa, AsahiKASEI Corporation

Back to the Future – Where Clarivate Analytics Has Been and Where We're Headed [Sapphire Sponsor Presentation – Clarivate Analytics], Bob Stembridge and Daniel Videtto, Clarivate Analytics

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Timelines: A Visualization Option for FTO Analysis Built with BizInt Smart Charts and Visio 2-Visualisation Tools [Sapphire Sponsor Presentation – BizInt], Gregory Roland, Novartis, and Matt Eberle, BizInt

Modern Semantic Search – Similarity Search in Patents via Deep Learning, Sumeet Sandhu, Elementary IP

Auto-identification of High Emergence Patents, Alan Porter, Search Technology

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Neural Networks: What Does All of this Have to do with Patent Analytics?, Parthiban Srinivasan, Parthys Reverse Informatics

The Enhaced Patent Quality Initiative and Search: A Brief Timeline with Options for the Future, Robert Grantham, Reveal-IP LLC

Winning the Game of Cat and Mouse: Helping IP Searchers Find Elusive Patents [Sapphire Sponsor Presentation – STN], Brian Sweet, STN

Industry 4.0 and the Role of Patent Information in Innovation: EPO Perspective, Nigel Clarke, European Patent Office

National IPR Policy of India and Its Implementation, Raj Hirwani, CSIR-URDIP

Study on the Effectiveness of "A SWOT Analysis", Tsutomu (Ben) Kiriyama, Raytec Ltd.

Patent Analysis and Visualization: An Update on Challenges and Opportunities, Nils Newman, Search Technology

Next-Generation Semantic Mapping and Landscaping, James Durkin, IP.com

USPTO Update, Jessica Patterson, USPTO

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Jumpstart: IP Quarrying for R&D, Kris Atkinson, A/A Patent Investigations

Seeing Our Work Through Other Eyes: Talking to Engineers About Patents and Patent Information, Cathy Chiba, Dauratus Research

A Real Patent Searcher Should Perform Beyond Just a Patent Searcher, Rong Yang, Allergan

Soft Skills, Neglected Features in a Hardcore Technical Environment, Bodil Hasling, Danish Patent and Trademark Office

GTMI: Engage, Leverage, Accelerate, Ben Wang, Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute

Fast, Free, and Available: A Shunpiker's Road to NPL Databases & Grey Lit in the Library and Online, Barbara J. Hampton, RedLine Information Services

Handouts, Barbara J. Hampton, RedLine Information Services

• Hampton: Databases Subscribed Handout
• Hampton: Grey Literature Handout
• Hampton: Journals and Publishers Handout
• Hampton: Library Discovery Tools Handout
• Hampton: Open Access Handout

Locating Unconventional Prior Art, Ron Kaminecki, Questel