Workshops

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Please note that a conference registration table will be open during the Tuesday Workshops for those who are attending the Wednesday conference plenary sessions and wish to preregister or check in.

• All workshops: Alexis Gallery A
• Breakfast, Lunch, and Breaks in Alexis Gallery B.
• Unless otherwise specified, registration to all workshops is required but free to all conference attendees.

Time (ET)	Workshop	Instructor(s)	Registration
8:00 am	Registration
8:30 am	STN: Sequence Searching in STNext	Jim Brown	Free, Required
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Minesoft: How To Take Advantage of New Features in PatBase, an Exploration of PatDocs, and What To Expect Next from Minesoft	Jason Resnick	Free, Required
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Bizint SmartCharts: Creating IP Reports Integrating Sequence and Family Data with BizInt Smart Charts for Patents	John Willmore	Free, Required
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	Aptean GenomeQuest: Searching for Variant Sequences with Pinpoint Accuracy	Ellen Sherin	Free, required
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Questel: Orbit BioSequence: Combining Sequence Searching with Motif Finding, Keywords in Fulltext, and Chemistry	Denis Bayada Amandine Kandi-Masakidi	Free, required
4:30 pm	Adjourn

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Time (ET)	Workshop	Instructor(s)	Registration
8:00 am	Registration
8:30 am	USPTO: The Meat Inside the WIPO Standard ST.26 Nutshell; The Details of Sequence Listings in Patent Applications.	Susan C. Wolski, PCT Special Programs Examiner, USPTO	Free, required
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	USPTO: The Patent Examination Process Including Different Approaches to Searching at the USPTO.	Jackie Cheng, USPTO Sue Liu, USPTO	Free, required
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am		David Osterbur, Harvard Medical School
12:30 pm	Adjourn

Sponsors of the PIUG 2019 Biotechnology Conference who are interested in hosting a workshop may use this link to review the Guidelines for Arranging a Workshop and complete the form requesting to host a workshop. Requests received after the deadline will be considered, based on remaining available time and space.