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PIUG 2002 – An International Conference for Patent
Information Professionals
PACIFIC RIM
Saturday, April 20 to Wednesday, April 24, 2002
Registration
Pre-registration
is required.
Microsoft Word Form / PDF Form
With effect from January 15, 2002, the registration fee is $350 for all registrants. This includes main conference sessions, the Sunday workshops, as well as the conference lunches, breakfasts and breaks from Monday, April 22, 2002 until Wednesday April 24, 2002. This also includes the Welcome Reception on Sunday night, the Monday night dinner, the Tuesday night reception and the Wednesday night dinner (courtesy of our generous sponsors).
To register for the workshop on Saturday “Introduction to worldwide patent information”, you must complete the Satellite Workshop Registration Form and pay an additional fee of $300.
YOU MUST CONTACT THE HOTEL DIRECTLY TO RESERVE YOUR ROOM.
Radisson Berkeley Marina
200 Marina Boulevard
Berkeley, California 94710
Call 1-510-548-7920. Be sure to mention PIUG. We have a block of rooms at $142 per night for Saturday through Wednesday. All hotel room rates are subject to a sales and occupancy tax. Room reservations are subject to space availability. All room reservations must be guaranteed for late arrival and secured with a deposit equal to the first night’s room and tax or with a major credit card. Failure to cancel a guaranteed reservation by 6:00pm one day prior to arrival or occupy the room will result in a charge of one night’s room and tax applied to the credit card or forfeiture of the deposit.
For a virtual tour of the hotel, see http://www.photowebusa.com/berkeley-marina/ , for more information about the hotel, visit http://berkeleymarina.citysearch.com/1.html or http://www.radisson.com/RAD/Hotel_Directory/HotelBio.jsp?brandCode=RAD&hotelCode=CABERKEL&returnFlag=hotelDirectory&origin=originBrowse&locUni=25832 .
The hotel is located 15 minutes drive from downtown San Francisco and 20 minutes
from Oakland International Airport.
Print the registration form and mail form and check for $350 made payable to the Patent Information Users Group to:
Tom Stanton
345 N Cassingham Road
Columbus, OH 43209
An email note or fax will be sent to you confirming receipt of your registration.
If you have questions regarding registration, please contact:
Tom Stanton
tstanton@ashland.com
Phone: 1-614-790-4576
OR
Suzanne Robins
sgrobinspi@cs.com
1-314-434-6812
TRAVEL AND RELATED BERKELEY INFO:
For information about public transportation, taxis, and shuttles to and from either Oakland or San Francisco airports, etc. visit http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/aboutberkeley/transportation.html.
For cool things to do in Berkeley visit http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/coolthings/ .
For a select list of restaurants in the area visit http://sseos.lbl.gov/Restaurants/Restaurants.html .
List of nearby restaurants, as provided by Nancy Lambert:
Skates (510-549-1900). It's under a mile away from the meeting location (near H's Lordship's), right on the water with a fantastic view across the Bay to the SF skyline and all three bridges. It has excellent seafood, hot homemade focaccio bread, and a lot of other good things.
If you don't mind going a little
distance (no more than 10 minutes' drive), there are some very nice restaurants
on 4th Street in Berkeley.
Ginger Island (510-644-0444) does
Pacific Rim and Asian/fusion cuisine;
Café Rouge (510-525-1440) has an
oyster bar and does California cuisine with very good meat;
O Chame (510-841-8783) does Japanese
country cuisine.
The Solano Grill and Bar is supposed
to be quite good, too; it's not too far from the freeway on Solano Avenue
(510-525-8686).
One of her favorites for an interesting combination of Chinese and seafood, again with a world-class view of the city, is the Hong Kong East Ocean Seafood Restaurant in Emeryville (510-655-3388). It's just two freeway exits down toward the Bay Bridge and then in a ways on the Powell Street Marina.
Finally, If you're feeling REALLY extravagant, there's always the famous Chez Panisse in Berkeley (510-548-5525). You would have to choose a night and make reservations now; it's a fixed-menu dinner (menu not announced until a week ahead).
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