Past Patent Meetings/Educational OpportunitiesPast Meetings/Conferences/Seminars
Date |
Location |
Meeting/Conference/Seminar (2007) |
4-7 March 2007 |
Sorrento, Italy |
IPI-ConfEx 2007 See Conference Program
Freedom-to-Operate Searches (Michael Fuller, Knobbe, Martens,
Olson and Bear, L.L.P.) Synthetic Methods Search (Marudai
Balasubramanian, Pfizer); Comparison of Patent Bio Sequence
Information Sources (Mark Harper, sanofi-aventis); IPC 8-Post Implementation Analysis (Gerold Frers, Siemens AG), Patenting of Biopharmaceuticals (Peter Steele, Thomson Scientific); Searching Indexed Databases versus Text Mining
(Wolfgang Thielemann, Bayer Healthcare AG); Extracting Additional Value and Intelligence from Patent Registers (Aalt van de Kuilen, Solvay Pharmaceuticals B.V); Italian Sources (Guido Moradei, Studio Moradei)
IPI MasterClassT "The Text, the Whole Text and Nothing But the Text" (Stephen Adams, Magister Ltd.) |
25-29 March 2007 |
Chicago, IL |
233rd ACS National Meeting
CINF
Uncovering competitive technology intelligence from chemical information in patent databases (Bob Stewart, Dialog/Thomson Scientific)
Using text mining software to identify drug, compound, and disease relationships in the literature (Darryl A. León (Active Motif)
CHAL
Patent law basics for the molecular business (Xavier Pillai, Leydig, Voit & Mayer) |
18-20 March 2007 |
Boston, MA |
SLA Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division Spring Meeting
Patents and Intelletual Property (Sian Griffiths and Janice Klundar (Millennium Pharmaceuticals)) |
18-22 April 2007 |
Minneapolis, MN |
21st Annual AIIP Conference (Program)
New Developments in Legal, Medical, and Government Information; (Ruth Balkin,Peggy Garvin, Cliff Kalibjian)
Training: Nexis, Investigative Research on Westlaw, Dialog: Intellectual Property |
23-24 April 2007 |
Boston, MA |
2007 Search Engine Meeting
From Broad to Vertical Search: Retrieving Information from the Deep Web (Olivier Scheffer (Digimind, Fr.) The Next Generation of Vertical Search (Claude Vogel) |
26-27 April 2007 |
Vienna, Austria |
"Far East meets West in Vienna" Forum on patent information
from Japan and the Far East) (Abstracts)
IPC8 and its impact on the JPO's FI/F-terms classifications (H. Nakamura, JPO);
"Patent Atlas" and other tools for evaluating patents (K. Tanaka, Intellectual Property Bank); Looking East: the view from an EPO examiner's desk
(A. Cohen, EPO); Japanese legal status made easy (S. Takano, NRI Cyber Patent)
Discussions: Retrieval of Chinese patent information; FI and F-term searches on the JPO's IPDL; Improvements of Asian data coverage on INPADOC and esp@cenet; The challenge of finding legal status information for East Asian patent documents |
30 April-3 May 2007 |
New York, NY |
2007 SCIP International Annual Conference
Patent Analysis + Market Intelligence = Competitive Omniscience (Abdul Mohammed, Samir Raiyani, Dolcera LLC); Building Patent Intelligence Competencies in the Enterprise (Barry Brager, Perception Partners); Evaluation of Commercial Opportunities Within a Scientific Area (Kevin Boyack, Sandia Natl. Lab); Drug Portfolio Assessments (Barbara Gilmore-Halliwell, Genentech); Using the Internet & Online Sources for Competitive Intelligence Description Arthur Weiss, AWARE); Finding Hidden Intelligence in SEC Filings (Barbara Fullerton, 10-K Wizard); New Learning Tools for Performing Collection and Analysis (Howard Berg) |
7-10 May 2007 |
Vienna, Austria |
9th EPO Patent Information Beginners Seminar (Program) |
15-18 May 2007 |
Tokyo, Japan |
NTCIR-6 Workshop (Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, EVIA)
New Evaluation Measures for F-term Patent Classification (Yaoyong Li, et. al Univ. of Sheffield)
NTCIR-6 Patent Retrieval Task
Posters: Category-Based Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) for Patent Retrieval (Masaki Aono); [Integrating text and citation retrieval for invalidity searches] (Atsushi Fujii)]; "Invalidity Search for USPTO Patent Documents Using Different Patent Surrogates" [Yuen-Hsien Tseng, et. al] |
9-11 May 2007 |
Boston, MA |
2007 AIPLA Spring Meeting
KSR V. Teleflex: Obviousness: on Point, Obfuscated, Outdated or Out of Hand; Patent Law Reform/USPTO Rule Changes |
14-16 May 2007 |
Seville, Spain |
PATLIB2007 Conference
Workshops: Patent portfolio evaluation; Machine translation (Enrique Filloy, EPO); Marketing your information service; Patent information centres in the age of Web 2.0 (Blazej Feret, Univ. of Lodz, Poland); From patent information centre to patent centre: the patent manager training programme (Reinhard Schramm, TU Ilmenau, Ger.)
Exhibitors' presentations: Enhancements to Derwent World Patent Index, Patents and chemistry (Elsevier); WIPO; Questel |
15-17 May 2007 |
Washington, DC |
Trilateral Technical Meeting (EPO, JPO, USPTO) |
16-18 May 2007 |
Collegeville, PA |
MARM 2007 (ACS 39th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting)
Shift in patent law, what changes in already known chemical structures warrant patent protection? (Rohitha Jayasuriya, Fox Rothschild LLP) |
3-6 June 2007 |
Denver, CO |
2007 SLA Annual Conference
Diving Into Patents: A Primer for Librarians (Leena Lalwani, Univ. of Michigan, Michael White, Queen's Univ., Denise Callihan, PPG Industries, Inc.) Beyond Online (Diane Webb, BizInt Solutions, Moderator; "Patents: Dusty Old Legal Documents or Novel Sources of Information?" (Ron Kaminecki, Thomson Scientific)
Chemical Information Sources, Requests, and Reference; Chemistry Vendor Roundtable (Dana Roth, CalTech, moderator);
Making Reports Pretty and Useful; Competitive Intelligence Analysis (Cynthia Cheng Correia, Knowledge inForm); Web Tools for Legal Researchers (Gary Price) 20 Tips For Searching the New Web, Web 2.0 (Mary Ellen Bates) ; Elusive US Private Company Information (Amelia Kassel); News Research 101; News Researcher's Tech Toolbox 2007 |
8-9 June 2007 |
Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Joint AIPLA-FICPI Colloquium: "Patent Quality"
(includes discussion of issues of a lower quality patent search as result of effort to reduce backlog of pending applications) |
14-15 June 2007 |
Ilmenau, Germany |
PATINFO 2007. 29th Discussion on Patent Information and IP
(29. Kolloquium über Patentinformation und gewerblichen Rechtsschutz).
Selection from Program, (translated from German):
Future trends of the patent information (Wolfgang Pilch, EPO); ROSPATENT Information Services (Alexei Gvinepadze, Victor Belyaev, Russia); Improved search quality using Japanese of F-term (Irene Schellner, EPO); Rational use of machine translations of Japanese and Korean patent specifications (Irene Schellner, EPO); Patent nets ("Patentnetze") for visualization and refinement of the search results (Adam Bartkowski, TU Ilmenau/PATON); Semantic patent maps for the identification of patent infringements (Daniel Butzke, Freie Univ. Berlin); Free patent information-unexpected pitfalls (Gabriele Kirch-Verfuß), etc. |
19-23 August, 2007 |
Boston, MA |
234th ACS National Meeting
Presidential Symposium on 100th Anniversary of Chemical Abstracts Service
CHAL Symposiums
Trends in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Patent Law Over the Past Twenty Five Years; Paradise Lost: Intellectual Property Protection for Pharmaceuticals; New Proposed U.S. Patent Rules and Legislation; Strengthening Your Future Patent Rights in Light of Recent Federal Circuit Decisions
CINF Symposium (co-sponsored with CHAL)
Intellectual Property and Licensing (Pamela Scott, organizer) |
10-11 September 2007 |
The Hague, the Netherlands |
Search Matters 2007 (EPO Seminar on Search and Documentation Working Methods) |
16-18 October 2007 |
Riga, Latvia |
EPO Patent Information Conference 2007 |
18-20 October 2007 |
Washington, DC |
2007 AIPLA Annual Meeting |
21-24 October 2007 |
Sitges (Barcelona), Spain |
ICIC 2007 The International Conference in Trends for Scientific Information Professionals (Infonortics)
White Space Analysis for Biomaterials in Complex Patent Landscapes (Alan Porter, Georgia Tech); Text Analytics and Chemical Annotation of Patents and Biomedical Literature (Michael Hehenberger, IBM Healthcare & Life Sciences); Combining Text and Structural Search in the Chemical Literature (John Cleary, Reel Two, NZ); Using Conceptual Search in.IP Databases (James Ryley); Possibilities for Chemical Structure Searching in esp@cenet; From Esp@cenet to Google, etc.
The Patent Panel (Minoo Philipp, Peter Vanderheyden, Willem-Geert Lagemaat, James Ryley) |
18-24 October 2007 |
Milwaukee,WI |
2007 ASIS&T Annual Meeting "Social Computing and Information Science"
How does web 2.0 influence the way we create, represent, organize, store, retrieve, and disseminate information? |
7-9 November 2007 |
Tokyo, Japan |
(Japan) 2007 Patent Information Fair and Conference (Jap.; Engl. Transl.) |
11-15 November 2007 |
Athens, Greece |
Pharma-Bio-Med 2007 (IPI)
(Enabling technologies, including integration, text mining, and visualization, Scientific and technical literature, Drug pipeline information, Competitor and business information, etc.) |
5-9 November 2007 |
Tokyo, Japan |
25th Trilateral Pre-Conference & Conference (EPO, JPO, USPTO) |
4-6 December 2007 |
London |
ONLINE Information 2007
Themes: Bringing Web 2.0 to life; Information discovery; From Information to Intelligence |


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