anacubis™ is the worlds leading provider of software solutions that allow large amounts of complex data to be presented in an easily understandable visual format for simple navigation and further analysis. anacubis™ has developed partnerships with several leading information solution providers, including Questel Orbit, LexisNexis and Dun & Bradstreet, who utilize our visualization technology to deliver timely, well-organized and relevant information to their clients. Our viewing technology allows information consumers to quickly visualize large amounts of data and explore relationships within that data - supporting effective corporate decision-making.

anacubis™ is investing heavily in research, developing solutions to meet the constantly evolving demands of information professionals. We are working to create a truly integrated solution to allow information to flow seamlessly between providers and consumers. Further product launches in the area of information research and analysis are planned in 2003 to support this vision.

Established in 2001, anacubis™ is a member of the i2 Group, a leading innovator with 12 years experience in delivering data visualization and link analysis software to investigators and intelligence professionals. i2 software is used by more than 1,500 organizations, including most international, federal and national intelligence and law enforcement organizations. anacubis™ has dedicated centers of expertise in Washington DC and Cambridge, UK, and benefits from access to the i2 Groups global resources.

At PIUG, anacubis™ will be demonstrating a pre-release version of it's forthcoming desktop visualization and analysis software. anacubis™ will demonstrate visual research and retrieval of patent data, intelligent consolidation with other business information sources and our link discovery and analysis technology.

BizInt Solutions will demonstrate the latest release of BizInt Smart Charts for Patents. New features include improved image support, report customizing features, and integration with VantagePoint from Search Technology.

BizInt Solutions is a small software company developing "business intelligence" software for pharmaceutical and other high-tech information specialists. Our BizInt Smart Charts products are focused on creating tabular reports from patent and drug pipeline information - automating the tedious process of creating tables manually.

BizInt Smart Charts for Patents creates tabular reports from leading patents databases, including the Derwent World Patents Index, CLAIMS, CA/CAplus, PlusPat, MicroPatent and other patent and biomedical databases - on STN, Questel*Orbit, and Dialog.

With BizInt Smart Charts, you can customize your report for different audiences; view associated records and images; print; and export reports for distribution via HTML and other electronic formats.

You can download a free tryout copy of our BizInt Smart Charts products from our website

STN, the worlds premier information service for science and technology, will feature a wealth of services for patent information users. STN is offered by CAS in North America, FIZ Karlsruhe in Europe, and JST in Japan. Featured services will include STN Express^® with Discover! ^TM, Version 6.01, highlighting CAS REGISTRY BLAST^®, BLAST alerts, and additional predefined reports and tables for patent and journal references as well as substance data; STN^® on the Web^SM with an enhanced Sequence Search Assistant; and the new files PATDPAFULL, PCTGEN, and RDISCLOSURE.

Chemical Abstracts Service is the producer of the world's largest and most comprehensive databases of chemical information, including patent information from 40 active patent-issuing authorities in the CAplus^SM, REGISTRY^SM and MARPAT^® files. Featured CAS database content enhancements include CA^SM subject and substance indexing now back to 1957; CA section thesaurus in the CA Lexicon; expanded patent country coverage; and, improved currency for French and British patents. STN and CAS staff will be on hand to demonstrate new and longstanding benefits of these services and answer your questions.

ClearForest will demo its flagship product, ClearResearch. It is a sophisticated research application designed to help research professionals quickly gain powerful insights into large document collections. The technology underlying ClearResearch reads large amounts of text from any source (e.g. news feeds, research reports, web sites, memos, internal documents) and through cutting-edge analytics, identifies and inter-relates key entities, facts and events, creating a knowledge base for users to search and analyze. The sophisticated analytics and visual representation of data help to create business intelligence and uncover new information unavailable with other products.

ClearResearch is ideally suited for patent research due to the following activities:

Gene-IT will be demonstrating Biofacet Patent Edition, which allows IP analysts to quickly establish freedom-to-operate and easily monitor competitor sequence IP positions. The intranet-based solution automates the reporting of the most important and relevant matches  minimizing tedious research  while providing advanced search algorithms so no relevant sequences are ever missed.

Biofacet Patent Edition benefits include:

• Works with any private or commercial database, updates to public databases (USPTO/EPO/JPO) are provided;
• Multiple classes of algorithms (homology, best global fit, fast word-based) provide insight and accuracy, save time, and cover the full range of claim types;
• Results are viewable in an intuitive alignment browser for easy selection and drill-down on important alignments;
• Allows simple prioritizing, sorting and categorizing of matches based on claim dates, alignment properties, and other annotation properties; and
• Save "Sequences-of-Interest" to a file for easy surveillance of competitive IP activity.

Analysis of US patents and pre-grant published applications should start with a comprehensive source of well-categorized references. IFI CLAIMS^® Patent Services offers accurate and reliable access to US patent references, with historical coverage back to 1950 and current coverage that is updated weekly. IFIs rigorous assignee standardization, with reassignment information, up to date legal status information and in-depth indexing of all chemical and biological technologies make it an excellent resource for your US patent searches and analyses. The database is available online through Dialog, Questel-Orbit, and STN.

IFI also compiles the Patent Intelligence and Technology Report, a web-based analysis tool providing analyses of US patenting activity over a ten-year period, updated monthly. Stop by our booth for a demo and sample of the Report, as well as our new US Classification history tool.

PATWWW.COM- Patent Document Delivery Service

High Quality Service Made in Europe

Access to the patent document archives stored at

Stop by the MicroPatent booth and test drive Aureka, our advanced patent analysis platform. You can also learn about the latest PatentWeb services, including MicroPatent's Patent Index (MPI) Database, our timely bibliographic collection featuring data from more than 70 countries, and legal status information from 42 of them. We also have plenty of goodies for you to take back to the office or your family! We look forward to seeing you at PIUG!

PatentCafe will be presenting its ICO Intellectual Capital Office Suite of IPAM solutions for enterprise. Focus will be on ICO Global Patent Search  the online patent database with its proprietary Semetric search technology.

PatentCafes ICO Global Patent Database contains an ever-growing volume of patents, ultimately from over 90 issuing authorities. The Semetric™ search technology is a Concept-based knowledge space index of all patent data, combined with a traditional Keyword / Boolean search filter. A "typical" search query may be the entire claims section from a subject patent.

The concept / keyword combination provides a depth of patent data searching not previously available from any search technology.

Additionally, ICO Global Patent Search is actually Web-based IPAM software that also allows the researcher to track and record all search queries, annotations and comments, related e-mail and other search session notations that should be collected in the researchers personal job "file wrapper". Users can also record and allocate time and expenses to any job number, client or user. For large firms and Enterprise subscribers, ICO web-based software allows the network administrator to channel all activities and time / expense and knowledge base data and reports to be routed to AP, IP counsel or other interested senior management.

All patent data is consistent with WIPO ST.32 data format standards, and search results produce (a) bibliography & first claim, (b) full text, and (c) image (PDF). Exporting data (up to 10,000 patent documents at a time) is available in XML, CSV and/or PDF through the users unique Document Management screen.

Other services presented include Patent Watch / Alerts, custom data search service and presentation reports.

Please join us at the PIUG 2003 exhibition to experience the latest developments in our products and services. Key developments being demonstrated are:

• Chemical structure searching - this new version includes web-based chemical structure and fragmentation code search capability
• New export formats compatible with data mining & visualisation packages
• Enhanced links to full-text in the Thomson Patent Store
• Seamless links to images of Derwent Documentation Abstracts
• Email alerts for automatic updates in your area of interest

Other recently developed products and services will also be available for demonstration including:

PILOT polymer code software for help in formulating polymer code search strategies

Technology & Patent Research International is a professional search firm dedicated to helping information professionals in corporations and law firms with their technical and patent searches. Come and meet the TPR searchers and support staff to find out how TPR can help smooth out the ups and downs of patent searching and thereby maximize the effectiveness of a companys own search team. Whether a continuous level of search support is needed, or just help with one or two searches from time-to-time, information departments can consider supplementing their resources with the proven search expertise of TPR.

TPR is an established corporation with professional offices and efficient systems, giving clients peace of mind and the following benefits:

• Expertise access to a team of highly-expert, seasoned searchers
• Responsiveness  ensuring that clients are fully-informed of search progress and that deadlines are always met
  
• Continuity  giving clients the results they expect
  
• Flexibility  help with special projects

TPR expertise extends beyond online searching alone. As a full service search firm, we also coordinate manual searches at patent offices and special libraries worldwide and specialize in searching non-conventional sources of gray literature for critical validity cases.

Come and ask us about these specialized services.

Search Technology will demonstrate the latest release of VantagePoint, a powerful text-mining tool for discovering knowledge in patent databases. VantagePoint helps you quickly understand and navigate through large volumes of text-based information, giving you a better way to view your information and turn your information into knowledge. The perspective provided by VantagePoint helps you quickly grasp the significant concepts and entities in your search results, allowing you to clarify relationships and find critical patterns. VantagePoint is being used for Competitive Technical Intelligence, Patent Analysis, and Technology Management to mine intelligence from online data repositories.

Version 3.2 includes new interactive Detail Windows, an extension to the import engine, and several other enhancements to the users interaction with VantagePoints views. Search Technology will also demonstrate future release capabilities that provide automated interoperability with other analysis tools including BizInt Smart Charts.

WIPS (Worldwide Intellectual Property Search) is the name of the company WIPS Co., Ltd., and we offer patent information search site called "WIPS Global".

WIPS Global receives patent data from countries patent offices (i.e. U.S., Europe, Japan and Korea, etc.) and revises the data with the WIPS format for users convenience. In the field of patent search, the company offers various services including the basic patent search, showing different types of image data through its unique viewer, and more than 70 countries patent bibliography data, abstracts, patent family and legal status information with INPADOC data.

Besides the aforementioned WIPS Global Web Services, we also offer prior art search services and patent information system construction (System Integration in WIPS term). WIPS, indeed, is the best of the patent information fields in Korea.  

• Formalized bibliographical information, abstracts and exemplary claims of patent in U.S., Europe, Japan, Korea and INPADOC Data for analysis (Collective Download Function of Text DB, Excel DB, Access DB and Patent Mapping Tool DB).
  
• Effectiveness of receiving and printing out the original description image data (Downloading and printing maximum 200 patent descriptions at a time with WIPS Cabinet Function)
  
• Perfect patent family data of U.S., Europe Japan and Korea, (Data having the subject patent case as its priority provided with patent family information of INPADOC Data)
  
• Citation Data of the U.S. Patent (Offering the whole backward and forward data of the subject reference data and re-search function among the search results by items
  
• Time effectiveness of screening search results (By the function of "Collective showing of the selected patent", bibliography, abstract information and exemplary drawings of multiple selected patent cases are provided in the type of film form the list)

• simple introduction about what FOCUST Citation Module consists of
• sample prior arts searches
• participants find how citation analysis helps patents works by operating the FOCUST Citation Module by him or herself

• search results slideshow with the FirstDrawing Viewer
• sample prior arts searches using the FirstDrawing Viewer

• participants explore all the features of FOCUST
• diverse analytical tools for meeting case by case analysis purposes
• sample analyses using various features of FOCUST