The PIUG Biotechnology Conference Committee has placed a call for papers for their tenth annual conference with the theme "Preparing Your Comprehensive Biotech Search: What Experts Do Differently." The conference focuses on best practices for patent information professionals who specialize in biotechnology search and analysis. It will be held February 22-24, 2016 at the Embassy Suites Boston at Logan Airport.
The program committee is interested in presentations that
- Show how scientific resources help biotech patent searchers develop and maintain their scientific knowledge for pre-search strategy creation
- Illustrate how work product supports or is a component of business decisions
- Use of patent information as competitive intelligence resource
- Utilize quality value-adds such as visualizations of data, presentation or organization of the reports and use of patents as competitive intelligence
- Discuss a specific search scenario with strategy, databases used and results identified
All topics related to biotechnology patent information research will be considered.
Interested speakers should submit: speaker name, brief biography, contact information, presentation title and a 100-200 word abstract to: alison.taylor@abbott.com and gregory.roland@novartis.com by September 30, 2015.
If you are interested in submitting a paper but need extra time to obtain your management approval, please let us know by the Sep. 30, 2015 deadline.
Further news about the program and updates regarding the conference will be posted on the PIUG Discussion Forum (PIUG-DF) and on the upcoming PIUG 2016 Biotechnology Conference web page.
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