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Saturday, May 1 to Thursday, May 6, 2010
Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor
(formerly Hilton Baltimore Convention Center)
401 West Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
The following workshops are being offered in conjunction with the PIUG 2010 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 March 31. Regular registration fees apply thereafter or until the workshop fills up. Workshop schedule is subject to change.
Saturday, May 1
Instructor
Workshop
Time
Location
Cost
Registration
Stephen Adams, Magister Ltd.
Understanding patent litigation: procedures and information sources 1:00pm-4:30pm
Peale A-C
For fee*
Registration
* Note that discounted fees are available to people who register for both Stephen Adams' and Edlyn Simmons' workshops.
Sunday, May 2
Instructor
Workshop
Time
Location
Cost
Registration
Edlyn Simmons
Patent Law Basics for Patent Searchers 8:00am-noon
Peale C
For fee*
Registration
WIPO
Updates from WIPO - PATENTSCOPE® 8:30am-9:30am
Johnson A
Free
Registration BizInt
Creating and Updating Multi-Database Reports in BizInt Smart Charts for Patents 3.3 and 4.0
9:00am-11:00am
Peale B
Free
Registration STN
Structure Searching Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) using STN Express 9:00am-11:00am
Peale A
Free
Registration Minesoft
Minesoft's PatBase enhancements
10:00am-11:00am
Johnson A
Free
Registration Questel
Get the best IP Practices out of orbit.com, Questel's new patent portal
[full presentation pdf document]11:30am-2:00pm
Latrobe
Free
Registration Thomson Reuters
Powering Your IP Research with Citation Analysis 2:15pm-3:30pm
Johnson B
Free
Registration
Tuesday, May 4
Instructor
Workshop
Time
Location
Cost
Registration
Dolcera
Dolcera Patent Dashboard Workbench
4:00pm-5:00pm
Holiday
Free
Registration Intellixir
4:00pm-5:00pm
Marshall BR
Free
Registration Ocean Tomo
Enhanced Patent Analysis Using the Ocean Tomo Suite of Software Solutions 4:00pm-5:00pm
Pickersgill
Free
Registration
Thursday, May 6
Instructor
Workshop
Time
Location
Cost
Registration
Don Gregory, GenomeQuest
Web-based Searching for Patent Information Across Global Sequence Databases
8:00am-9:00am
Johnson B
Free
Registration Inspec
Importance of non-patent literature in the patent process
8:00am-9:00am
Johnson A
Free
Registration STN
9:00am-4:00pm
Ruth
Free
Registration Steve Melnick and Terry Mackey, USPTO
USPTO Classification Workshop: What’s Going on at PTO Related to Classification and Search 9:30am-11:30am
Peale B-C
Free
Registration Search Technology
Improving your Vantage Point on Patent Information - Leveraging Non-Patent Content
9:30am-10:30am
Johnson A
Free
Registration Tom Wolff
Learning and Sharing: Getting the Most out of the PIUG Wiki 9:00am-10:00am
Latrobe
Free
Registration LexisNexis
Deep Patent Research Using LexisNexis IP Solutions with Semantic Search
9:00am-11:00am
Peale A
Free
Registration Jane List and Ron Kaminecki, Dialog
11:00am-12:00pm
Johnson A
Free
Tom Wolff
Learning and Sharing: Getting the Most out of the PIUG Wiki 11:00am-12:00pm
Latrobe
Free
Registration Steve Melnick and Terry Mackey, USPTO
USPTO Classification Workshop: Case Studies in the Chemical, Electrical and Mechanical Disciplines 1:00pm-3:00pm
Peale B-C
Free
Registration