Patent Information Users Group, Inc.

The International Society for Patent Information Professionals

PIUG 2021 Combined Annual and Biotech Virtual Conference
An International Conference for Patent Information Professionals

Unconventional Times Require Unconventional Search and Analysis Techniques

Monday, May 24 - Friday, May 28, 2021

Join us VIRTUALLY – All access is through the Meeting App via web browser or Smartphone

Twitter: #PIUG21

Sponsors

PIUG gratefully acknowledges the following sponsors and exhibitors
who have generously provided support for this event.

GOLD SPONSORS
	BizInt Solutions, Inc. produces BizInt Smart Charts software to help information analysts create, customize and distribute multi-database reports and visualizations from drug pipeline, clinical trial, patent and gene sequence databases. The BizInt Smart Charts product family is used by pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, petroleum and medical device companies worldwide to support research planning and competitive intelligence.
	Clarivate™ is a global leader in providing solutions to accelerate the lifecycle of innovation. Our bold mission is to help customers solve some of the world’s most complex problems by providing actionable information and insights that reduce the time from new ideas to life-changing inventions in the areas of science and intellectual property. We help customers discover, protect and commercialize their inventions using our trusted subscription and technology-based solutions coupled with deep domain expertise. For more information, please visit clarivate.com.
	IFI's proprietary data architecture is the reason we produce the industry's most complete and accurate view to a patent. We address inaccuracies and formatting issues before the records enter our global patent database. Incoming data from 70 plus sources is standardized by our algorithms to fit our ideal, predefined patent format. If data doesn't fit the format, our team of specialists manually addresses the issues. We provide clients with our extensible architecture for easy integration with your applications, other data-sets, or any analysis software.
	Intellectual property professionals and patent examiners worldwide rely on STN for their scientific, technical and IP information needs. With access to the world’s scientific information on one integrated platform, including authoritative chemistry and patent content from CAS and Derwent World Patents Index®, STN offers a unique content collection, unparalleled search power and precision, and proven reliability to reduce your risk of missing critical information and help you protect valuable intellectual property. Our newest platform, STNext™, elevates the classic STN search experience, by offering a new, more intuitive interface, focused on efficiency, with enhanced security and lower administrative overhead. STN is operated jointly by CAS and FIZ Karlsruhe worldwide.

SILVER SPONSORS

Aptean GenomeQuest enables companies to search worldwide patent literature for biological sequences. Its database, GQ-Pat, is the largest repository of sequences cited in patents. IP professionals and law firms use GenomeQuest to perform freedom to operate, patentability, validity, and prior art searches. GenomeQuest serves 18 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies and all five top agrochemical companies, with a customer base of nearly 200 leading life science and biotechnology organizations.

BRONZE SPONSORS
	Minesoft develops global patent databases & solutions, winning the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise in 2009 and 2015 for outstanding growth internationally. PatBase is a sophisticated global searchable patent database offering analytics. A new NPL solution broadens searches beyond patents whilst a new Semantic Search facility further aids patent discovery and subject searching. Chemical Explorer offers a text-mined searchable database of chemical structures and chemical terminology extracted from over 11 million full-text patents.
	Questel is a true end-to-end intellectual property solutions provider to more than 6,000 clients and one million users across 30 countries. We offer a comprehensive software suite for searching, analyzing and managing inventions and IP assets. Questel also provides services throughout the IP lifecycle, including prior art searches, patent drafting, international filing, translation, support during licensing negotiation and litigation and trademark related services. These solutions, when combined with our IP cost management platform, deliver clients an average savings of 30-60% across the entire prosecution budget.

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