The 2013 PIUG Northeast (NE) Conference was held last Tuesday (October 1st) at The Heldrich Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. More than 100 patent information professionals gathered to hear nine excellent talks, and interact with more than 10 sponsoring organizations who exhibited, and provided workshops before, and after the Conference. The Conference overview page provided the following description of the meeting:
The PIUG Northeast Conference brings together experts in the areas of chemistry, biology, other sciences, engineering, and legal topics relating to patent information. It is an excellent forum to learn and share best practices regarding a specific process in searching and retrieving patent information. Vendors will be available to discuss their expertise and products. The key objective of this meeting is to provide opportunities for learning, networking and professional development.
The Co-Chairs of the Planning Committee were Shelly Pavlek and Kimberly Miller, and the Chair of the Program Committee was Lucy Akers. The list of all the volunteers can be found at the bottom of the overview page and everyone involved, especially Shelly, Kim and Lucy should be congratulated on a fantastic event. The talks were excellent, and the facilities provided for a comfortable and professional environment for networking, and interaction among the participants. All and all it was a tremendous event that reflected extremely well on PIUG.
I was honored to provide one of the presentations during the meeting and a link to my slides from SlideShare is below:
Thanks to Sandra Unger, there is also video available from my talk which was posted to YouTube:
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The remainder of this post provides the titles of each of the other presentations along with the Tweets associated with them that were collected during the meeting. I had to leave after the afternoon break, so there are no Tweets for the final three talks but the abstracts from those presentations are provided. Copies of all the presentations are provided for PIUG members at the following link. Getting access to these excellent presentations is a major benefit of PIUG membership and interested individuals can get additional information on joining PIUG here.
At the end of the post there are also Tweets from the five-minute sponsor presentations.
– Paul Golian (Bristol-Myers Squibb)
@atripper 1 Oct
Golian – Watch out for Markush claims which might embody a naturally occurring substance, entire claim could be knocked out #PIUGNE2013
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Golian – Funk Brothers Supreme Court case was the major precedent used to decide the merits in the Myriad case #PIUGNE2013
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Golian – CAFC held that only Dr. Harry Ostrer (NYU) had standing to bring suit against Myriad out of 18 plaintiffs #PIUGNE2013
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Golian – Myriad was started as a spin off of Skolnick’s research at the Univ of Utah on BRCA1 #PIUGNE2013
– Kristine H. Atkinson (A/A Patent Investigations)
@atripper 1 Oct
Atkinson – More careful attention to subject matter may result in a myriad of functional claims in the future #PIUGNE2013
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Atkinson – Thinking about drug delivery especially in regards to recent Myriad decision important 4 patenting purposes #PIUGNE2013
– James L. Grant (Novartis Inc.)
@atripper 1 Oct
Grant – suggested use of claim charts as a means for identifying which components of a complex formulation are present #PIUGNE2013
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Grant – need to make certain that you have freedom-to-operate with the matrix in which you put a new drug #PIUGNE2013
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Grant – A drawing of materials associated with drug tablet can help define scope of search associated with formulation #PIUGNE2013
– Binqiang Liu (State Intellectual Property Office of China)
@PIUG 1 Oct
Dr Binqiang Liu great talk on “China Utility Model Patents: Trash or Treasure? ” Conclusion: definitely treasure! #piugne2013
@atripper 1 Oct
Liu – Chinese Utility Models cover shape/structure/combination of a device or production but not the function #PIUGNE2013
– Donald Walter (Thomson Reuters)
@atripper 1 Oct
Walter – no significant difference between US citations for blockbuster drugs versus control cases #PIUGNE2013
Suggestion by D. Walter – but there IS a significant difference between family-to-family citations, as measured by the Derwent Patent Citation Index (DPCI)
@atripper 1 Oct
Walter – patent maintenance and family member size can be important considerations, in addition to forward citations #PIUGNE2013
– Melissa Burt (Questel-Orbit Inc.)
As the demand for both meso-level and macro-level patent analysis continues to increase, the complexity of worldwide patent information makes it difficult to apply generic visualization tools and methods. Patent Information professionals are uniquely positioned to create, interpret and tweak patent-based visualizations. Specifically, using a command-line search based axis within the visualizations allows you to be as precise in your project deliverables as in your searches. Further customization can be implemented by being in control of data normalization.
Having flexible, integrated search and analysis capabilities is vital; a case for avoiding a visualization black box is presented. Other data-centric analytical functions will be addressed.
– Brian Sweet (Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS))
Many leading bibliographic databases on STN now provide access to ahead-of-print content. While the extra timeliness is welcome, the abundance of dates associated with these documents can make it difficult to answer patent searching’s million dollar question: When was that first available online? This talk will explore ahead-of-print content in CAplus SM, Embase™/Embase Alert and MEDLINE®, and show how to determine when records in those databases first became available online.
– Mike Lloyd (Griffith Hack/Ambercite)
Patent searching is mainly done by searching for patents with targeted keywords or patent codes, or a combination of the two, but there are limitations with both of these approaches. Keywords and patents codes can be overly broad and yet still miss relevant prior art. These search processes can be time consuming, and USPTO and Federal court invalidation data suggest that both approaches are imperfect.
Another method increasingly used to search for patents that are citationally linked to known patents of interest. However, users can be overwhelmed with hundreds of citation connections, and it is still necessary to determine which citation connections are most relevant to the user’s objective.
Network patent searching is the process of agglomerating all of the citations in an area (thereby combining the search expertise of examiners) to identify the most similar and influential patents in relation to a patent of interest. It can work remarkably well in practice, saving searchers hours of time, while identifying highly relevant documents missed by conventional techniques. This presentation will provide case studies using the graphical network patent search tool AmberScope.
Peter Cowan @noremacc 18h
I will live vicariously through you –> “@atripper: Attending and speaking at the PIUG NE Conference today. Tweeting at #PIUGNE2013”
Kristin Whitman @IPLibrarian 1 Oct
@atripper would love more abt Markush in the Cloud but can’t find press etc. on ChemAxon website -maybe this is new rollout at #PIUGNE2013 ?
@atripper 1 Oct
Thomson Reuters – Markush in the Cloud using Instant JChem is now available for early adopters #PIUGNE2013
Retweeted by Kristin Whitman
@atripper 1 Oct
Thomson Reuters – Thomson Data Analyzer was recently enhanced with additional family citations and clean-up capabilities #PIUGNE2013
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STN – Classic STN will be supported while New STN platform is being developed as a multi-year effort #PIUGNE2013
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Questel – Many new data and visualization enhancements available through the http://Orbit.com platform #PIUGNE2013
@atripper 1 Oct
BizInt – Producing a cookbook of reports & visualizations with step by step instructions 4 producing them with their tool #PIUGNE2013
Retweeted by Kenichi Yamamura
@atripper 1 Oct
TPR has enhanced its support in Asia including CN, JP, KR, SG and others #PIUGNE2013
@atripper 1 Oct
Search Technology – VantagePoint reached version 8 with Parent & Child fields, Bubble Charts and enhanced Super Profile #PIUGNE2013
@atripper 1 Oct
Minesoft – introducing a new analytics module which will allow users to work with up to 100,000 families #PIUGNE2013
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Minesoft – PatBase celebrating its 10 year anniversary this year with new capabilities including a legal status timeline #PIUGNE2013
@atripper 1 Oct
Intellixir – Releasing version 9 including a one-click analysis tool which includes several pre-processing steps #PIUGNE2013
