Past Patent Meetings/Educational Opportunities

- The role of classification (Mikhail Makarov, WIPO), 
- IPC reform- Objectives and principal Features (WIPO, see notes in .ppt),
- IT support for IPC users (P. Fiévet, WIPO);
- The Master Classification Database (EPO);
- Trilateral Classification Harmony Project (JPO);
- User's view (PDG);
- How will commercial products be affected (Thomson Scientific, PatCom), etc.

International Patent Information Conference and Exposition (IPI-ConfEx) 

"How to Deliver Top Quality Patent Information and Search Services In-House"  See Conference Program

26-30 March 2006

Atlanta, GA, USA

231^st  ACS National Meeting

CHAL Symposiums:
- The Life of a Patent Application in the United States;
- Intellectual Property Value Creation for Pharmaceutical Companies;
- Trends in Patenting and Protecting Your Chemical Inventions;
- Ensuring the Effective Patent Protection of Innovative Molecular Technology, and
- Freedom-to-operate patent searches for selecting sequences of drug targets(Heahyun Yoo, et al., BMS)

CINF Symposiums:
- Advances in Reaction Informatics  [Reaction databases Marudai Balasubramanian Pfizer]
- Career choices in intellectual property (Pamela J. Scott, Pfizer)

2006 SCIP  International Annual Conference

- Text and Data Mining--Together at Last! (Anthony Trippe, CAS);
- Offensive and Defensive Use of Patents for Competitive Intelligence (Gregory Kirsch, Needle & Rosenberg);
- Mining and Interpreting Competitive Patent Intelligence (Barry Brager & Stacy Williams, Perception Partners);
- Anticipating Breakthrough Technologies (Jay Paap, Paap Associates);  
- Public Source Research;
- Analysing the Blogosphere;
- Tools for Info Discovery and Analysis (Mark Maybury, MITRE);
- The Internet (Arthur Weiss, AWARE);
- Competitor Profiling; etc.

2006 EPO Seminar on Search and Documentation Working Methods

- Searching Japanese patent documents using FI and Fterm classification;
- Advanced searching in the pharmaceutical field;
- Functional and novel food;
- Genetic diagnostics;
- Human Computer Interactions;
- Computer programs;
- Data network applications; etc.]
- IPC8 and ECLA: comprehensive search and retrieval

3-5 May 2006

Chicago, IL USA

2006 AIPLA Spring Meeting

Among other patent topics: "Using the USPTO Web Site"

2006 SLA Annual Conference

- Diving Into Patents: A Primer for Librarians (Michael White, Queen’s Univ, Marilynn Dunker, P&G);
- Visualization Tools for Patents; 
- Chemical Information Sources, Requests, and Reference;
- Chemistry Vendor Roundtable; 
- Early Warning Intelligence Systems (Jan Goldman, US DOD);
- Previewing Clinical Trial Results (Bonnie Snow, Dialog);
- News Researchers; Elusive Private Company Information (Amelia Kassel);
- Opaque web (Mary Ellen Bates)

10-14 September 2006

San Francisco, CA, USA

232^nd  ACS National Meeting

8-12 October 2006

Gothenburg, Sweden

40^th World Intellectual Property Congress

19-21 October 2006

Washington, DC USA

2006 AIPLA Annual Meeting

3-9 November 2006

Austin, TX, USA

2006 ASIS&T Annual Meeting "Information Realities: Shaping the Digital Future for All"

- The nature of the information profession in the digital future;
- Implications for information (seeking) behavior and retrieval;
- Distributed collaboration and information sharing, etc.

ONLINE Information 2006