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PIUG 2011 Annual Conference
An International Conference for Patent Information Professionals

Best Practices Beyond Free-text: The Value of Indexing and Classification when Searching and Analyzing Patents

Saturday, May 21 through Thursday, May 26, 2011
Hyatt Regency Cincinnati
151 West Fifth Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
+1 513-579-1234

Workshops

The following workshops are being offered in conjunction with the PIUG 2011 Annual Conference. Please note that you must register separately for each workshop. As space is limited please register early. Early bird registration deadline for workshops is April 8. Regular registration fees apply thereafter or until the workshop fills up. Workshop schedule is subject to change.

Saturday, May 21

Instructor	Workshop	Time	Location	Cost	Registration
Stephen Adams, Magister Ltd.	It's a Jungle Out There. Encountering Exotic Species in the World of IP	9am-12:30pm	Buckeye	For fee*	Registration
Lucy Akers and Aalt van de Kuilen	Basics of Patenting Processes and Approaches for Patent Searching	1:30pm-4:30pm	Bluegrass	For fee*	Registration
Jennifer McDowall, EMBL-EBI	Sequence searching from the European Bioinformatics Institute	1:30pm-4:30pm	Buckeye	Free	Registration

* Note that discounted fees are available to people who register for both Stephen Adams' and Lucy Akers' and Aalt van de Kuilen's workshops.

Sunday, May 22

Instructor	Workshop	Time	Location	Cost	Registration
STN	INPAFAMDB and INPADOCDB on STN: FIZ Karlsruhe's enhanced version of INPADOC-Data	8:30am - 9:30am	Buckeye	Free	Registration
BizInt & Search Technology	Patent Analysis with BizInt Smart Charts and VantagePoint	8:45am - 10:30am	Bluegrass	Free	Registration
Dialog	Searching for Non-Patent Literature	9:00am - 10:00am	Musketeer	Free	Registration
STN	Physical Property and Reaction Searching in the ReaxysFile on STN	9:30am - 10:30am	Buckeye	Free	Registration
WIPO	PATENTSCOPE Latest Developments	10:00am - 11:00am	Bearcat	Free	Registration
STN	FIZ AutoDoc: The Simple Solution from Search Results to Full-Text Documents	10:30am - 11:30am	Buckeye	Free	Registration
Dolcera	Patent Collaboration Tools and Techniques	11:00am - noon	Musketeer	Free	Registration
Questel	Our Global IP Platform	11:00am - 2:00pm	Bluegrass	Free	Registration
Minesoft	Using the latest enhancements on PatBase	1:00pm - 2:00pm	Bearcat	Free	Registration
Thomson Reuters	Targeted Searching Using DWPI & Thomson Innovation Classification & Indexing	2:00pm - 3:30pm	Buckeye	Free	Registration

Tuesday, May 24

Instructor	Workshop	Time	Location	Cost	Registration
EPO	Understanding the World's Major Patent Classification Schemes	3:15pm-6:15pm	Plenary Room	Free	Registration

Thursday, May 26

Instructor	Workshop	Time	Location	Cost	Registration
INTELLIXIR	Intellixir v7: New Version for Faster and Deeper Analyses	8:00am - 9:00am	Bluegrass	Free	Registration
STN	STN Patent Forum	9:00am - 4:00pm	Buckeye	Free	Registration
GenomeQuest	IP Sequence Search Workshop	9:30am - 10:30am	Bluegrass	Free	Registration

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PIUG 2011 Annual Conference An International Conference for Patent Information Professionals