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PIUG 2004 Annual Conference

An International Conference for Patent Information Professionals

Worldwide Patent Information: Back to Basics

May 22-27, 2004
Wyndham Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel
Baltimore, MD USA

anacubis

anacubis Desktop. For visual research and analysis of patent and other structured data from multiple sources. Allows rapid analysis to produce meaningful intelligence. anacubis

BizInt

BizInt Smart Chart for Patents creates tabular reports from leading patent databases. Automatically process data and create intelligent reports. BizInt

Chemical Abstracts Service

STN offers current and archival information from over 200 scientific, technical, business, and patent databases covering a broad range of scientific fields, including chemistry, engineering, life sciences, pharmaceutics, biotechnology, regulatory compliance, patents, business, and more. CAS

Dialog

Dialog Link 4.0 - a new search software with enhanced post-processing capabilities. Also, Derwent WPI First View for an early look at published patent documents. Dialog NewsRoom and site license options. Dialog

European Patent Office

The European Patent Office (EPO) grants European patents for the contracting states to the European Patent Convention (EPC). It is the executive arm of the European Patent Organisation, an intergovernmental body set up under the EPC, whose members are the EPC contracting states. The activities of the EPO are supervised by the Organisation’s Administrative Council, composed of delegates from the contracting states. EPO

FIZ Karlsruhe

European STN partner, offers current and archival information from over 200 scientific, technical, business, and patent databases covering a broad range of scientific fields, including chemistry, engineering, life sciences, pharmaceutics, biotechnology, regulatory compliance, patents, business, and more. FIZ

Gene-IT

Gene-IT is the leader in large-scale sequence searching solutions for the life science industry. Provides GenomeQuest an intranet-based solution that enables functional investigators to rapidly search the entire sequence world quickly and easily. With its patent search module, GenomeQuest facilitates rapid decision-making on the intellectual property (IP) value of corporate bio-sequences. Gene-IT

IFI Claims

IFI CLAIMS Patent Databases, represents the most reliable, text-searchable, and value-added databases of U.S. patents in the world. Legal status information, company name standardization, competitive intelligence tools, indexing services. IFI

Intralogics/Patent Vision

Comprehensive source for USPTO data in digital form. USPTO patents and applications replicated on DVD. US patents in compressed PDF form. IL PV

Korea Institute of Patent Information

KIPI is a specialized non-profit IP information service agent founded by KIPO. Designated as organization for tasks of KIPO, KIPI not only executes KIPO’s projects but also provides value-added patent services. KIPI

MicroPatent

MicroPatent is a full-service intellectual property information, software, and consulting-services company with the world’s largest commercial collection of searchable full-text patent information. Provider of PatentWeb - online patent searching and document delivery, Aureka - online patent analysis and collaboration, File Histories, Trademark.com. MicroPatent

Minesoft

PatBase - PatBase is the new searchable patent information database developed by Minesoft and RWS. Organised into patent families for ease of search and display, PatBase offers a wealth of innovative features.Minesoft

Patolis

PATOLIS (Patent Online Information System) is the sole database in Japan specializing in documents from the field of intellectual property. A comprehensive source of Japanese intellectual property documentation. It contains complete collection of patents since 1955, including Japanese utility models, trade marks and designs. Legal status information, machine translation. Patolis

Questel-Orbit

Plus-Pat - international patent database covering over 70 countries and patenting authorities. FamPat - patent family file. Internet based delivery of patent documents. PatReader - a new way to visualize fulltext patents. PatentExaminer - portfolio and project management tool. Questel-Orbit

Rusch Consulting Group

Merged Markush Service (MMS) - the structural searchable file for the chemical patents community.

Technology & Patent Search International

The patent searcher's search firm. Searches for patentability, freedom-to-opertate, prior art, validity, legal status, infringement, etc. Manual searching of non-patent literature as well as non-English language documents.

Thomson Scientific

Thomson Scientific businesses include Current Drugs, Delphion Research, Derwent, ISI, ISI ResearchSoft, Techstreet, and Wila-Derwent. These organizations deliver essential patent, industry standards and specifications, scientific and technical information that enhances our customers' ability to achieve world-class research and business results. Thomson

VantagePoint

VantagePoint from Search Technology is a text mining software for discovering knowledge in any structured database. Mapping and analysis of trends. Can be adapted to import data from a number of databases. VantagePoint

Univentio

Univentio Patent Information located in the Netherlands, provides expertise in the areas of patent awareness and data. Provides Unique digital patent data collection comprising full text, bibliographic data, facsimile images and machine translations Broad product range including alerting services, data licensing, custom solutions and search and retrieval. Univentio

Wisdomain

Wisdomain is a solution provider for the comprehensive analysis of patent information including Patent-Lab II and Focust. Fouct consists of the Search Module, the Citation Module and the Analysis Module designed to meet enterprise-wide requirements for business value of patents. Wisdomain

World Intellectual Property Services

The World Intellectual Property Search (WIPS) Patent Search database contains data from patent offices all over the world that WIPS has saved in a uniform format so that it may be easily accessed through their integrated web-based search system. Of particular interest is their collection of Korean, Chinese and Japanese patent information that is searchable in the English language, a feature not commonly available in competing products. World Intellectual Property Search (WIPS)