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        Sunday, April 30
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      | 11:00 am | 
      Gain Invaluable Insights into Sustainable Technologies Nicholas Valentino, LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions
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      | 12:00 pm | 
      Defensive Patent Searching Anticipate and Avoid Pitfalls Throughout the IP Lifecycle 
      Laura Bantle, Clarivate | 
    
    
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         Complete Search Coverage with Aptean GenomeQuest Sequence & Full Text Document Searching: Mining Key Combinations  
        Stephen Allen, Aptean
  
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      | 2:00 pm | 
      Patent Notifications May Be Tedious But They’re Essential. Ignore Them at Your Own Risk. How IFI CLAIMS Incorporates the Ever-Shifting Data Into Its Repository 
      Janice Stevenson, IFI CLAIMS Patent Services
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      | 3:00 pm | 
      A Familiar Song in a New Key-word: More Efficient Technology Searching Using Full-Text Indexing 
      Andrew Klein, Minesoft
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      | 4:00 pm | 
      Create IP Reports Integrating Your Key Sources 
      John Willmore, BizInt Solutions, Inc. | 
    
    
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        Monday, May 1
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      | 8:00 am | 
      Welcome and Introductions 
      Martha Yates, PIUG Planning & Program Chair  | 
    
    
      | 8:15 am | 
      Keynote Talk:  Patenting Actions that Speak Louder than Words 
      Mike Pellegrino, Pellegrino & Associates | 
    
    
      | 9:30 am | 
      The Green Perspective 
      Devin Salmon, IFI Claims Patent Services | 
    
    
      | 10:30 am | 
      Searching Antibody-Drug Conjugates in CAS STNext® 
      Mike Axton, CAS | 
    
    
      | 12:50pm | 
      Revolutionizing the Future: Navigating the Landscape of Machine Learning and AI Patents 
      Michael Carey, F. Chau & Associates | 
    
    
      | 1:20 pm | 
      AI: Will it help or hurt? 
      Moderator: Shelley Pavlek, Bristol-Meyers Squibb 
      Panelists: MarthaYates, Bayer, Nils Newman, Search Technology, Jonathan Skovholt, Ensemble IP and Andrew Klein, Minesoft
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      | 3:20 pm | 
      Advanced Search Techniques in the CAS MARPAT Markush Chemical Structure Database 
      David Saari, CAS IP Services, CAS | 
    
    
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        Tuesday, May 2
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      | 8:15 am | 
      Back to Basics: Why Patent Documentation Standards Matter (virtual only) 
      Stephen Adams, Magister Ltd. | 
    
    
      | 8:45 am | 
      Boolean or ML-based search?--Both! 
      Heiko Wongel | 
    
    
      | 9:15 am | 
      How Do I Deliver My Search Results? 
      Matt Eberle and Diane Webb, BizInt Solutions, Inc. | 
    
    
      | 10:15 am | 
      What GPT Means for the Innovation Process. 
      Gaby Lai, PatSnap | 
    
    
      | 10:40 am | 
      Aptean GenomeQuest Sequence & Full Text Document Searching 
      Stephen Allen, Aptean GenomeQuest | 
    
    
      | 11:05 am | 
      A Whole New World of Patent Research: What’s Next on the Horizon at Minesoft? 
      Andrew Klein,Minesoft | 
    
    
      | 1:10 pm | 
      Ten Years of the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) system: a historical perspective and future developments 
      Jose Alconchel Ungria, EPO and Derris Banks, USPTO | 
    
    
      | 3:15 pm | 
      How Far Patent Searching Has Evolved  
      Ron Kaminecki, Kaminecki IP | 
    
    
      
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      Wednesday May 3 | 
    
    
      | 7:15 am | 
      Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) Searching Workshop 
      Justin Krause, Terrance Mackey, and Dimple Sopariwala, USPTO | 
    
    
      |  9:00 am | 
      CAS STNext® Patent Forum 
      Mike Axton, Scott Hertzog, Darryl French, CAS & Jim Brown, FIZ-Karlsruhe | 
    
    
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      What’s New In CAS STNext 
      Darryl French, CAS & Jim Brown, FIZ-Karlsruhe | 
    
    
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      CAS Sequences 
      Scott Hertzog, CAS
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      Moving CAS STNext Answer Sets to CAS SciFindern 
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      Leveraging CAS PatentPak™ 
      No slides presented - session was done via live demo which was recorded.
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