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Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the PIUG 2025 Annual Conference to be held May 4 - May 8, 2025 at The Westin Alexandria in Alexandria, Virginia. 

Why should you attend a conference in person?  With everything online these days, what can make you pack your bags and get on a plane?  We will have a mix of traditional talks, talks from vendors, time to interact with our vendors, traditional social time and unconference sessions.  Traditional talks will be recorded and available for virtual attendees.  Unconference sessions will only be live.

We are interested in papers from ALL sectors of the patent information community (chemistry, electrical, mechanical, software, pharmaceutical & biotechnology), and from ALL areas of the patent professional community (attorneys, agents, examiners, searchers (corporate and independent consultants) & tech transfer offices) on patent searching and analysis topics with an emphasis on practical applications and use cases. 

All topics related to patent information research listed below will be considered but not limited to:

  • New advances in the retrieval, classification, storage, analysis or display of technical, scientific, legal or patent information
  • The use of computer assisted searching such as text mining, machine learning or artificial intelligence patent searching to collect, summarize and report results
  • Novel aspects of changes in patent law and new information from court decisions
  • International differences in patent filings, information, and considerations when searching global sources

General Guidelines for Submitting Proposal/Topic/Ideas:

  • Send your paper title, abstract (max. 200 words), speaker names, affiliation, brief biography and full contact information to Devin Salmon ( Note: presentations are typically 25 min., followed by 5 min. questions and answers.)
  • Do not include confidential or business-sensitive information in your abstract.If you would like to recommend a speaker or a topic for a presentation or an unconference session, please contact the PIUG 2025 Annual Conference organizers, listed below, with your comments and suggestions.
  • Further news about the program and updates regarding the conference will be posted on the PIUG web site at www.piug.org and PIUG Community. Please see the web site for the tentative schedule.

Deadline is Friday, 7 February 2025  

Please share this notice within your greater patent information community to enhance our outreach efforts.  Thank you for your consideration. We look forward to seeing you at the PIUG 2025 Annual Conference

PIUG 2025 Annual Program Committee

Devin Salmon (Chair)

Scott Hertzog

John Zabilski

Kartar Arora

Monica Weiss-Nolan

Ron Kaminecki


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