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PIUG 2005 Annual Conference
An International Conference for Patent Information Professionals

The Future of Patent Information - Tools and Techniques for Adding Value

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May 21-26, 2005
Hyatt Regency Crystal City
Arlington, VA USA

Exhibit Room

The Exhibit Room will open Sunday Evening with the Welcome Reception. Monday through Wednesday, the Exhibit Hall will be open 7:15am-5pm, but staffing of exhibits is only expected during breakfast, morning and afternoon session breaks. The Exhibit Room will be closed during meeting sessions.

Setup

Exhibit Room Times

Participants

Information about Exhibits

Related Information (contract, order form, check list, etc)

Setup

  • Exhibit setup will take place from 2pm - 6pm on Sunday, May 22, 2005.
  • Exhibit takedown may begin after 3:30pm on Wednesday, May 25, 2005.

Exhibit Room Times

Sunday, May 22

2 - 6 PM

7 - 10 PM

Set Up (Vendors Only)

Evening Reception

Monday, May 23

7:15 - 8:15 AM

10 - 10:30 AM

2:30 - 3 PM

Breakfast

Morning Break*

Afternoon Break

Tuesday, May 24

7:15 - 8:15 AM

10 - 10:30 AM

1:30 - 3:30 PM

Breakfast

Morning Break*

Open Time

Wednesday, May 25

7:15 - 8:15 AM

10 - 10:30 AM

2:30 - 3 PM

3:30 PM

Breakfast

Morning Break*

Afternoon Break*

End of Exhibits

*Times for break sessions are subject to change.

2005 Participants

BizInt Chemical Abstracts Service
Dialog Elsevier MDL
European Patent Office FIZ-Karlsruhe
Gene-IT IFI Claims
IP.com Korea Institute of Patent Information
LexisNexis Univentio McElroy Translations
Micropatent Minesoft
OmniViz Paterra
Prous Science Questel-Orbit
Rusch Consulting Group Search Technology/Vantage Point
TPR International Temis
Thomson Scientific WIPS Global
Wisdomain  

 

Information About Exhibitors

BizInt - BizInt Smart Charts software helps you create, customize, and distribute reports from the leading patent and drug pipeline databases. With BizInt Smart Charts for Patents 3.0, you can create patent reports from STN, Dialog, Questel*Orbit, MicroPatent and Delphion -- and include
automatically generated links to full patents on Delphion and MicroPatent.

Chemical Abstracts Service - CAS creates and delivers the most complete digital information environment for scientific research. CAS provides you with pathways to published research in life sciences information, journal and patent literature, and other scientific disciplines back to the beginning of the 20 th century. CAS provides many products to meet your needs.

Dialog - Dialog is a leading worldwide provider of online information services that offer competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance and law. Dialog (www.dialog.com) is a business of The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC), a leading provider of integrated information solutions to business and professional customers.

Elsevier MDL - Elsevier MDL provides integrated information, information management and workflow solutions that accelerate life sciences R&D by improving the speed and quality of scientists' decision making. The MDL(r) Patent Chemistry Database, a structure-, reaction- and text-searchable database of life sciences patent information (World, U.S., and European) since 1976, supports effective synthesis planning and bioactivity profiling.

European Patent Office - The European Patent Office (EPO) is an international authority set up on the basis of the European Patent Convention. Its role is to grant European patents using a unitary and centralized procedure. By filing a single patent application in any of the three official languages - English, French or German - it is possible to obtain patent protection in 30 states.

FIZ Karlsruhe - FIZ Karlsruhe is a leading information provider in the fields of energy, physics, mathematics and polymer science. In collaboration with the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) in and The Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), FIZ Karlsruhe provides the STN International online service. The company was founded in 1977 and is based near Karlsruhe, in Southwest Germany. At our exhibition stand learn about new and improved STN databases, including Korean
Patents, Russian Patents, European Patents full-text, United Kingdom patents full-text and new patent family SDI features in INPADOC.

Gene IT - Gene-IT's mission is to organize the worlds genomic and proteomic sequence data so that end-users in the life sciences can navigate it and use their own expertise to turn this vast knowledge resource into scientific insight.

IFI Claims - Wolters Kluwer Health, Pharma Solutions business unit is the professional's first choice for knowledge-based information services and decision-support tools for the pharmaceutical and life-science industries. We provide unparalleled information from pre-clinical to post-market surveillance marketed under the industry's leading information brands, Adis International, IFI Claims(r) and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

IP.com - IP.com was founded to fill a growing void in the tools available to the intellectual property community. Our initial product, the IP.com Prior Art Database, was created to provide companies with a fast and effective, centralized outlet for publishing and searching technical disclosures. Since its inception, the IP.com Prior Art Database has continued to grow, attracting such high-profile clients as IBM, General Electric, Motorola, Abbott Laboratories, and Eastman Kodak (to name a few).

Korea Institute for Patent Information (KIPI) - KIPI is a specialized non-profit IP information service agent founded by KIPO. Designated as the organization for tasks of KIPO, KIPI not only executes KIPO’s projects but also provides value-added patent services to SMEs, individual inventors, etc.

LexisNexis Univentio - LexisNexis® has joined forces with Univentio, the largest commercial source of first-level patent data in the world, to meet the growing need for timely and comprehensive patent information and tools. Founded in 1952, Univentio now finds itself to be the largest owner of first level patent data worldwide, with over 100 authorities in its digital collection. Our product groups comprise of data licensing, customized solutions, patent alerting services and document delivery.

McElroy Translations - McElroy has 37 years of industry success providing legal, technical, medical and business translation. Clients have dedicated technical support, account and project management with communication and processes customized to establish schedules and project benchmarks that optimally meet client needs. Translators and editors are selected based on experience and professional skills testing in subject matter and language pairs. Quality, price and service are the cornerstones of our client relationships.

Micropatent - MicroPatent, a Thomson business, is a leading provider of intellectual property information and related services, produces the world’s largest commercial collection of searchable full-text patent information, as well as the most timely, complete bibliographic database, and has industry-leading analytic, collaboration, and IP-management offerings.

Minesoft - Minesoft Ltd specialises in developing software solutions and databases for the patent information market. Key Minesoft products include; PatBase, a searchable patent database with records organised into patent families; PatentOrder, a complete document delivery solution with archive; Minesoft PatentTracker, a legal monitoring tool, which now tracks the US PAIR, in addition to the EP, GB, DE, CA patent registers and INPADOC data.

OmniViz - Rapidly identify who is working in what area, what are the major themes and concepts, how are the concepts related, when are changes in ideas and company activity taking place - all done graphically within the context of the entire data collection - using user-directed focus and customizable thesauri of terms and company names; incorporate other text and non-text content for a more complete decision process.

Paterra - Paterra will demonstrate its InstantMT(r) machine translation services for Japanese language patents and its new, free Class-Expanded Abstracts database services. InstantMT machine translation is known for the quality of terminology resulting from Paterra's patented IPC-tagged machine translation dictionaries. Class-Expanded Abstracts enables classification-based searching without the lookup hassle.

Prous Science - The preeminent source for critical knowledge in drug R&D and clinical medicine. For over forty years, Prous Science has been a trusted source of drug R&D information, on which science depends to discover safer and more effective medicines.

Questel-Orbit - For over 30 years, Questel•Orbit has been helping manage the world's most important IP portfolios. We provide a suite of leading-edge patent and trademark services to executives, scientists, researchers and competitive intelligence professionals, and help turn their IP information into real value and enhance their organizations' competitiveness.

Rusch Consulting Group - Rusch Consulting Group (RCG) is the North American representative for the Merged Markush Service (MMS) of the French Patent Office (INPI). MMS consists of the new UNIX version of the search software, Markush DARC, and the more than 1.6 million Markush structure records from four merged databases. RCG operates the MMS Help Desk and provides training on MMS.

Search Technology/Vantage Point - VantagePoint text mining software from Search Technology, Inc. helps users understand search results from dozens of patent, scientific, technical, and business databases. VantagePoint helps Patent Analysts, Competitive Technical Intelligence Professionals, and Technology Managers quickly find "who, what, when, and where?" so they can focus on "why and how?" and most importantly "what to do next!"

TPR International - Technology & Patent Research (TPR) International is a full service search firm that is dedicated to providing quality patent and non-patent literature searching expertise to Information Professionals. TPR services encompass expert online database searching, as well as manual searches at patent offices and special libraries worldwide (U.S., Europe, Japan, China, etc.).

Temis - TEMIS, the European leader in Text Mining, develops and markets multilingual software solutions for Text Mining, which enable optimization of information processing by transforming free text into data that can be analyzed for information extraction or automatic classification of documents. TEMIS products play a critical role in fields where information processing is complex due to the volume of information flow, such as Competitive Intelligence, Scientific Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management, Patent Analysis and Human Resources, and they provide substantial productivity gains.

Thomson Scientific - Thomson scientific information solutions include patent information, Derwent World Patents Index ®); Thomson Pharma (SM)-an integrated information solution for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets; Delphion ®-providing access to full-text patent documents from the world's leading patent authorities; and, Techstreet-offering a wide variety of engineering codes and standards.

WIPS Global - WIPS Global is a web-based search system developed by WIPS to search US, European, PCT, Global patent, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and INPADOC patent data. To help worldwide users easily access Asian data, WIPS Global provides various search interfaces along with reliable data and powerful analysis functions.

Wisdomain - Wisdomain is a lean and fast company setting a new standard for introducing an innovative and intuitive way of IP management solution into the market. Different needs require a different solution. Applying different and unique market needs fast in our product is what Wisdomain is all about. If you need a real solution, not just another tool, which produces actionable results meeting your specific and unique needs, Wisdomain is the right company for you.

Related Information

 

Please contact Kartar Arora (kartar.arora@JWP.COM, 262-631-4177) for further information about exhibits.

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