PIUG 2013 Northeast Conference

Monday, September 30 to Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Workshops

All workshops are held at the Heldrich Hotel.

Monday, September 30, 2013

Time	Workshop	Instructor(s)	Location	Registration
9:00am - 4:00pm	STN Patent Forum		Amphitheater	Free but required

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Time	Workshop	Instructor(s)	Location	Registration
8:00 - 9:00am	INTELLIXIR Workshop: "Version 9 New Features"	Jean-Baptiste Porier David Benhamou	Johnson Room	Free but required
9:30 - 11:00am	ProQuest Workshop: "Why Patent Researchers Are Going to Love ProQuest Dialog™… tales from a long time Dialog insider."	Eddie Watkins	Dickson Room	Free but required
9:00 - 11:00am	Questel Workshop: "Orbit.com: New Features and Analysis Capabilities "	Christophe Marchisio Melissa Burt	Johnson Room	Free but required
11:00am - noon	Minesoft Workshop: "PatBase: Legal Status enhancements, a new Chinese interface and other developments"	Elan Raday	Johnson Room	Free but required
1:00 - 2:30pm	Thomson Reuters Workshop: "Thomson Innovation and Markush: Enhanced Sources & Insight 2013"	Don Walter	Johnson Room	Free but required

Information for Workshop Hosts

Organizations who want to host workshops should complete the Word documents for the "2013 Workshop/Exhibitor Agreement." Each provides critical information and a form to be returned to Shelley Pavlek.

Contact Shelley Pavlek (shelley.pavlek @ bms.com) of PIUG with questions concerning workshops at the PIUG 2013 Northeast Conference.

Workshops – Detailed Information

(Questel) Orbit.com: New Features and Analysis Capabilities

Melissa Burt, Account Executive Christophe Marchisio, Account Executive

Johnson Room Please register

This workshop will take a detailed look at the customization options in Orbit’s IP Business Intelligence analysis tool. You will learn about how to:

• Analyze with user-defined fields
• Control and clean the data
• Utilize command line to enhance analysis
• Custom build graph templates
• Share analysis projects and establish workflows
• Visually drill down and pinpoint important data

We will also review recent usability and content updates to Orbit.com, specifically in the Workfiles and XPert Search Module

STN Patent Forum

Additional agenda details are available at the registration site.

• What's New?
• Putting CPC at Your Fingertips: Comprehensive Patent Office Classification Searching on STN
• Lunch
• 10 STN Tips Every Patent Searcher Should Know
• Advanced Techniques for Statistical Analyses in INPADOC on STN
• STN Current Awareness Update

Minesoft Workshop: "PatBase: Legal Status enhancements, a new Chinese interface and other developments"

Elan Raday

Johnson Room Please register

Legal Status data and functionality has been a key focus for PatBase in  2013, and this Workshop will demonstrate the latest major enhancements introduced to ensure easily accessible and interpretable legal status data – including the new Legal status timeline. We will also outline significant developments in the area of Asian patent information, as well as a give a sneak preview of enhancements planned for Fall.

As PatBase celebrates it’s official 10th Anniversary Year from October - and with a brand new Statistical Analysis module to be launched - join us for this Workshop to make sure you don’t miss out!

Thomson Reuters Workshop: "Thomson Innovation and Markush: Enhanced Sources & Insight 2013"

Don Walter

Johnson Room Please register

Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property (IP) Solutions are used by customers worldwide throughout the IP lifecycle. Thomson Reuters solutions ensure the most thorough research, and help you discover key trends, keep abreast of technological and competitive developments and deliver the business critical intelligence, vital to your organization's success.

In this workshop we will be providing some

tips and tricks to help you get the most out of the latest enhancements , and you will learn further about:

• New patent coverage and content including full-text Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia content, as well as enhanced Japanese and Chinese coverage on Thomson Innovation.
• Derwent World Patents Index® is 50 this yearundefinedbut who’s counting? We are. Join us in celebrating 50 years as the world’s most trusted source of patent information and learn what is new including the addition of the Derwent Patents Citation Index to Thomson Innovation.
• Markush searching in a cloud environment through our partnership with ChemAxon.
• Enhanced Polymer Indexing turns 20 and we will review how you can leverage it to improve the comprehensiveness and precision of your searches.

INTELLIXIR V9: New features and case studies

Jean-Baptiste Porier David Benhamou

Johnson Room Please register

INTELLIXIR is a 10 year-old company that provides a secure and hosted web application to analyze and visualize your patent and non-patent literature exported from in-house and commercial sources.

The statistical analyses generated with INTELLIXIR are graphically represented on dynamic and interactive web pages.

Come to learn how INTELLIXIR system can help your organization to map your competitive environment, identify new partners, and detect emerging trends.

ProQuest Workshop: "Why Patent Researchers Are Going to Love ProQuest Dialog™… tales from a long time Dialog insider."

Eddie Watkins, Director of Product Management

Dickson Room Please register

Who Should Attend : Any patent researcher who wants to have access to the largest collection of patent and non-patent literature in a single user experience. Whether you are or were a long time Dialog user or not, this session will introduce you to the most comprehensive research solution for patent researchers in the market today. 

Abstract : Hear the story of how an expert Classic Dialog searcher was able to say goodbye to his beloved Classic Dialog and embrace the power and flexibility of ProQuest Dialog – the largest collection of patent and non-patent literature created for researchers of all skills levels. Now, he’s helping research professionals around the globe discover the benefits of ProQuest Dialog too!  You will be regaled with stories of…

• How the largest collection of patent and non-patent literature, in a single interface, supports prior art, freedom to operate, and competitive intelligence research, while also providing a global view of patent protection with three patent families and legal status covering nearly 100 global authorities
• The speed and precision of search tools, including four search experiences (command line search, advanced search, basic search, and a quick look up search) enhanced with set based searching, thesauri navigation tools, and search operators like LNK that links descriptor terms to subheadings or kind codes to patent publication dates and more
• Having access to millions of full text documents, including dissertations and theses, patents from nearly 100 global authorities, scientific journals, trade journals, and global news sources
• How venerable and industry-defining features from Dialog, such as Expand, DialIndex, Post-Processing/Export, Truncation, Rank, Saved Searches, and Alerting have all been improved and made accessible to researchers of all skill levels
• A flexible pricing model that is easy to understand, where search is always free regardless of whether you have a “pay as you go” account as a solo researcher or part of an enterprise wide subscription package