PIUG 2007 Boston Biotechnology Meeting

Overview

We are very pleased to announce a new meeting with a focus on Biotechnology. The PIUG Boston Biotechnology meeting will be held on Monday, February 12, 2007 hosted by Amgen, One Kendall Square, Bldg. 1000, Cambridge, MA. Due to space considerations this meeting is limited to 50 attendees.

The focus of this meeting will be sequence searching, particularly the following areas:

1. The legal aspects of sequence searching (freedom to operate, patentability, validity)
2. Content of sequence databases (GenBank, EMBL, DDBJ, PCTGEN, CAS Registry, GeneSeq)
3. Software for searching sequences (exact, pattern matching, Smith-Waterman, blast, fasta, Genome Quest)
4. Why do sequence searching and how to interpret results (explore the "cycle" and examine the connections between content, software and the legal question)

PIUG gratefully acknowledges the sponsorship support of BizInt, GeneIT, FIZ Karlsruhe and Threshold Information.

Program Committee

Program

Robert Austin (FIZ Karlsruhe)
Elyse Turner (Merck & Co. Inc.)
Suzanne G. Robins (Patent Information Services Inc.)
Qin Meng (Amgen Inc.)

Evaluation

Sian Griffiths (Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)

Meeting Book Preparation

Alison Taylor (Threshold Information Inc.)

Registration

Barbara Hurwitz (Independent Patent Searcher)
Ken Koubek (Rohm & Haas Co.)
Christine Leyva (Eisai Research Institute of Boston, Inc.)

Travel

Donald Walter (Thomson Scientific)

Webpages

Rodney Cruise (Phillips Ormonde & Fitzpatrick)
Glen Kotapish (IdeationHQ, LLC / PlanetPatent.Com)
Ric Snead (Thomson Scientific)
Tom Wolff (Wolff Information Consulting LLC)

Planning

Qin Meng
Information Consultant
Amgen Libraries
One Kendall Square, Bld. 1000
Cambridge, MA 02139