PIUG 2009 Annual Conference
An International Conference for Patent Information Professionals

Searching for Patents Beyond Your Borders

Workshops

The following workshops are being offered in conjunction with the PIUG 2009 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.

Saturday, May 2

Registration

Instructor	Workshop	Time	Location	Cost	Registration
BizInt	Creating Combined Reports with BizInt Smart Charts for Patents - Present and Future	1:00pm-2:30pm	Live Oak	Free	Registration
Dolcera	Web 2.0 Tools and Processes for Patent Research	1:00pm-2:00pm	Pecan	Free	Registration
DecrIPt	Markush Space Investigation and its Relevance to Intellectual Property Analysis	2:00pm-3:00pm	Blanco	Free	Registration
SumoBrain	New developments at Sumobrain: Launch of Biomedsearch (www.biomedsearch.com) and Integration with Sopheon	3:15pm-4:15pm	Pecan	Free	Registration
LexisNexis	TotalPatent™ – Using Boolean and Semantic Search	3:15pm-5:15pm	Live Oak	Free	Registration

Sunday, May 3

Instructor	Workshop	Time	Location	Cost	Registration
Judy Alexander, 3M   Questel   Elliott Linder, Questel	The 3M Move to QPAT: Case Study of a Corporate Transition and Implementation Lunch From Charts to Smarts: Affordable Visualizations for Extraction of IP Intelligence	10:30am-11:30pm   11:30pm-12:30pm   12:30pm-1:30pm	Live Oak	Free	Registration
Thomson Reuters	Strategies for Improving Your Patent Research and Information Management with Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPISM)	2:00pm-3:15pm	Chula Vista	Free	Registration

Tuesday, May 5

Instructor	Workshop	Time	Location	Cost	Registration
Minesoft	Minesoft Update on PatBase and Other Products	4:00pm-5:00pm	Regency East	Free	Registration
Tom Wolff	Learning and Sharing: Getting the Most out of the PIUG Wiki	4:00pm-5:00pm	Llano	Free	Registration

Thursday, May 7

Instructor	Workshop	Time	Location	Cost	Registration
CAS and FIZ Karlsruhe	STN Patent Forum	9:00am -4:00pm	Live Oak	Free	Registration
Barry Brager, Perception Partners	Automating Patent Analysis: Tricks, Tips and Techniques from Around the World	11:30am-2:30pm	Frio	For fee	Registration
Tom Wolff	Learning and Sharing: Getting the Most out of the PIUG Wiki	3 similar sessions: 8:00am-9:00am 9:30am-10:30am 11am-Noon	Nueces	Free	Registration
Intellixir	The INTELLIXIR System at Work	9:30am-10:30am	Blanco	Free	Registration
GenomeQuest	Recent innovations in Sequence Searching and Analysis using GenomeQuest	9:30am-10:30am	Pecan	Free	Registration
Search Technology/ VantagePoint	Doing More with Less: How efficient analysis can improve your vantage point on information	9:30am-11:30am	Chula Vista	Free	Registration
WIPO	WIPO Patent Information Products–Latest Developments	11:00am-Noon	Blanco	Free	Registration