The previous post on short summaries from each of the presentations from the conference can be found here. This post from the 2013 PIUG Annual Conference will provide the full list of tweets associated with the meeting.
Relecura / IndusTech @Relecura
Good morning #PIUG2013 – Create CPC Maps using Relecura to aid landscaping. Last day to see a demo. Get in touch pic.twitter.com/z5prgc6ovE
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#piug2013 9:30am Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) (USPTO, EPO)
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#piug2013 9am there are two sessions to choose from: STN Patent Forum and INTELLIXIR New Version 8.0
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#piug2013 Don’t forget there are still some great sessions to attend today! 8am America Invents Act (USPTO)
INTELLIXIR @Intellixir
Today is the last day to come to see us @PIUG and to discover Intellixir v8! Document #Ranking, #Patent landscaping… #PIUG2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Kaminecki – a good list of sources for NPL can be found at the @Intellogist web site as well as @PIUG wiki #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Kaminecki – Google Prior Art Finder and scholar.ly are two system that users might want to consider when looking at NPL #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Kaminecki – establishing accurate publication dates can be difficult when working with non-patent literature references #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Kaminecki – Issues with NonPatent Literature (NPL) include non-specific and irreproducible sources which requiring sourcing #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Ron Kaminecki – Advances in Non-Patent Literature Searching:5 Years of Information Distilled to 40 Characters #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Grossman – USPTO funded by private user fees and not tax payer dollars so why have they been impacted by sequestration #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Grossman – USPTO has not yet performed a market segmented study on the implications of XML filing to applicants #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Grossman – Will requirements to file applications in XML introduce additional errors or complicate the process to applicants? #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Grossman – Current USPTO standards for patent information published by the office is stated to be 99.995% #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Grossman – Patents End to End (PE2E) program has inherent risks assoc with it due to the complexity of the system and the goals #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Grossman – “Dirty OCR” process, without human intervention, could have produced /2 billion errors with the USPTO documents #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Marla Grossman, Coalition 4 Patent and Trademark Information Dissemination – US Patent Office Information Technology Developments #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Neifeld – studied all of the IPR cases which have occurred to date and published results – http://www.neifeld.com/advidx.html #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Neifeld – Claim construction is done up front with all of the PTAB proceedings, done much later with district courts #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Neifeld – Oracle has spent more than $300K in petition fees to file Inter Partes Reviews trial proceedings #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Neifeld – all proceedings associated with PTAB are covered in the PRPS system and all records for the case are included here #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
@AnalystPat IMO Professional searchers can use PatentScope for a number of different features not provided by commercial products #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
Why is it that the only snack break I’m hungry for is the only one without sweets or cookies? #conferenceproblems #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Neifeld – Telling about the new Patent Trial and Appeals Board and the validity trials associated with post-grant proceedings #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
Lutz Mailander, WIPO discusses their landscape contract projects to benefit developing countries, and highlights Landon IP’s work #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
I’ll give you a bit of advice – save your money and don’t play poker with Dominic DeMarco. #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
DeMarco discusses game theory and its applications to life, business management and prior art search. #piug2013
STN @STNInfo
Don’t forget to register for our free STN Patent Forum tomorrow from 9:00-4:00. http://ow.ly/kAd29 #PIUG2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Final Break & Then – Richard Neifeld, Neifeld IP Law, PC – Update on US Patent Law and Practice – Focus on Board Proceedings #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
DeMarco – If client is likely to come across reference you need to include it, even if dont like it since will get called on it #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
DeMarco – the general opposition model and the motivations associated with participants is a method for modeling decision making #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Dominic DeMarco, DeMarco IP – Patent Searching: A Game of Imperfect Information #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Diaconescu – ePCT system allows third-party submissions to PCT applications for consideration on search report #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Diaconescu – Patentscope contains nice IPC class trending feature which looks at most active codes used recently analyzed by time #piug2013
pat analyst @AnalystPat
Should we have parallel tracks for different audiences e. g free vs paid.. Care to vote or chime in via tweets #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Diaconescu – providing an overview of the various features and data sources associated with the WIPO Patentscope system #piug2013
pat analyst @AnalystPat
Good talk about WIPO landscapes… Why two presentations (including 30 min on patentscope)? Is PIUG for professional searchers? #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Mallander – some WIPO reports include Innovation Tracks – demonstrate how invention can continue to be re-applied through time #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Mallander – WIPO worked with Intellixir to provide interactive exploration of the data used to generate the report #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Mallander – WIPO will be developing guidelines for patent landscape reports in conjunction with Anthony Trippe, Patinformatics #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Mallander – Reports have been done on drugs, desalination and solar power applications based on needs of developing countries #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Mallander – WIPO Landscaping project was demand driven to address the needs of developing countries #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Mallander – Patent Landscape reports can provide evidence for policy discussions and decision making #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Mallander – WIPO is interested in bringing patent landscape reports to developing countries to promote use of IP to help growth #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Lutz Mailänder, WIPO and Iustin Diaconescu – WIPO’s Patent Landscape Project and Patentscope #piug2013
STN @STNInfo
I hope you enjoyed my presentation on the new STN platform. If you have any questions, I’ll be at #PIUG2013 until 5:00 pm.
Relecura / IndusTech @Relecura
Jumpstart and tweak search strategy using “Upload Doc”/”Seed Data”. Save time. Demo/trial at #PIUG2013 More here http://is.gd/CtA3zO
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#piug2013 main conference sessions end at 4:45 today with remarks by @PIUG Chair Susanne Hantos from Davies Collison Cave
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#piug2013 4pm Ron Kaminecki presents Advances in Non-Patent Literature Searching:5 Years of Information Distilled to 40 Characters
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#piug2013 3:25 talk re: @uspto IT Developments by Marla Grossman, Coalition for Patent and Trademark Information Dissemination
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#piug2013 followed by an update on US Patent Law and Practice: Focus on Board Proceedings by Richard Neifeld from Neifeld IP Law, PC
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#piug2013:50 Legal Overview of Intellectual Property sessions begin w/comments by Edlyn Simmons from Simmons Patent Information
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#piug2013 : 45 Patent Searching: A Game of Imperfect Information by
Dominic DeMarco from DeMarco IP
Relecura / IndusTech @Relecura
Migrate you patent search keywords to perform Non-patent lit search simultaneously on various archives #PIUG2013 pic.twitter.com/oujhSzTexr
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#piug2013 Up next WIPO’s Patent Landscape Project and Patentscope with Lutz Mailänder and Lustin Diaconescu from @WIPO
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#PIUG2013:30 Dynamics of Patent Searching begins w/comments from Kimberly Miller from @Novartis Institute Biomedical Research
Anthony Trippe @atripper
@mnarenivar @atripper From our perspective it’s priority #. Unfortunately it’s also one of most difficult languages for Engl MT #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Bowen – No short-term plan to retire “classic STN” and other products like STN Express. Full roll out likely in04 #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Bowen – New STN removing system constraints so large complicated queries can be accomplished without work arounds #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Bowen – Query filters based on classification, kind and other types of codes can be used for refining results and classifying them #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Bowen – New STN organized by projects as opposed to discrete search histories, this is combined in the interface with the results #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Bowen – Using Hadoop/MapReduce, open source clustering technology to pre-generate relationships so they are available to the user #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Bowen – Version One of New STN includes CAplus, Registry, DWPI and DCR and focuses on query creation and searching initially #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
TJ Bowen, STN – The New STN Platform: Revolutionizing Patent Searching for Professionals #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Inglesias – comprehensive collection of patent analysis tools can be used to move beyond raw data to business insight #PIUG2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Miguel Iglesias and Joe Terlizzi, Questel – Applying Landscaping Tools to Determine Competitive Opportunities #PIUG2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Raday – 10K Chinese and 3K Japanese company names have been translated by RWS to provide assignees before Latin equiv is avail #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Raday – Minesoft receives data from a variety of third-party sources and patent offices and this data has to be standardized #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Elan Raday, Minesoft – PatBase: Adding Value And Preserving Quality In A Global Patent Database #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Willmore – merging content from various sources was done using patent family content incorporating sequence data and legal status #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Willmore – Third party tools, like SmartCharts can help collate content from a variety of sources to create a single display #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
John Willmore, BizInt Solutions – Summarizing Sequence Results by Patent Family #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
Stop by Intellixir booth for a demonstration of their very nice and very versatile analytics product, & b/c they are lovely folks. #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
Go by Genomequest booth to hear about all the manual curation they’re doing on non-ST.5 formatted sequences to enhance coverage #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
ICO2000 series codes are part of the CPC classification schedule on espacenet, interwoven with CPC code parents #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
CPC to ECLA concordance is still on http://CPCinfo.org #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
What is relationship going forward with IPC and CPC? EPO and USPTO fully participate in IPC revisions – collaboration IP5 offices #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
Too busy taking notes to tweet this CPC stuff- don’t want to chance missing anything! Thanks to @atripper for being on the ball. #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
Nigel Clark: new operator in espacenet “/low”, used with classification, will search both the class and all lower hierarchies. #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Clarke – by appending /low or /exact to a CPC code the user can transfer exact code or code with children to search form #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Clarke – CPC browser on Espacenet searches patent docs and returns CPC results as opposed to searching title or definition #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Held – About 20% of the Asian documents in Espacenet have CPC codes; system being considered by Russia, China, Korea and Brazil #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Held – EPO providing classification mapping services through the OPS (open patent services) API #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Held – robust quality assurance and statist analysis of divergences being used to ensure harmoniz and correct applic of codes #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Held – CPC scheme is divided into the Main Trunk for invention or addl info and the indexing codes for addl info only #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Kim @uspto – All US examiners will be using CPC by January 1st 2015; all definitions will be available by end of May #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
KIm @uspto – today about 60% of the US pre-grant applications are being published with CPC codes on them #piug2013
Linguamatics @Linguamatics
Want to find out more about I2E, the subject of Yun Yun Yang’s talk yday? Visit @Linguamatics at #piug2013 http://ow.ly/kBj7e
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Nigel Clarke & Pierre Held, EPO; Christopher Kim, USPTO – The CPC Browser in Espacenet and USPTO’s Experience #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
KIm – KIPO will be providing machine translations of Korean patents into English, there will be a free service and one for fee #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Kim – KIPRIS Plus is a customized patent information sharing service with an Open API for easy access #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
KIm – KIPRIS is also connected to Google Patent site so results from there are displayed together with KIPO data #piug2013
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#PIUG2013 : 5 TJ Bowen discusses the New STN Platform: Revolutionizing Patent Searching for Professionals
TJ Bowen @STNInfo
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Kim – mobile access was a key requirement, especially for younger generation for the KIPRIS service, mobile in English coming soon #piug2013
PIUG @PIUG #PIUG2013 : 00am Applying Landscaping Tools to Determine Competitive Opportunities Miguel Iglesias and Joe Terlizzi @Questel
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#PIUG2013 0:45am PatBase: Adding Value And Preserving Quality In A Global Patent Database by Elan Raday @Minesoft
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#PIUG2013 Summarizing Sequence Results by Patent Family John Willmore @BIZINT
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Kim – KIPRIS is the patent database used by the general public in Korea and it has the same data as the patent office system #piug2013
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#PIUG2013 0:30 Applied Technology Session starts with Chairperson, Zhifu Shu, @exxonmobil Research and Engineering
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#PIUG2013 8:45am The CPC Browser in Espacenet and USPTO’s Experience Nigel Clarke, @EPOorg & Christopher Kim, @uspto
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Hee-tae Kim Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) – Improving the Use of Patent Information – KIPO’s IP Information Services #piug2013
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#piug2013 Improving the Use of Patent Information: KIPO’s IP Information Services by Hee-tae Kim from Korean Intellectual Property Office
PIUG @PIUG #piug2013 Cooperative Patent Classification – A View from the Primary Authorities kicks off at 8:0am with Kartar Arora, from @LandonIP
STN @STNInfo
My last day at #PIUG2013 is a busy one. This morning I’m presenting on the new STN platform during Session H.
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Abbott – when the data goes live it will be available on http://patents.reedtech.com and http://trademarks.reedtech.com #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Abbott – portions of the bulk USPTO data available as a beta test by the end of May, full file by June6 #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Abbott – Reed Tech providing unofficial access to all of the records available to the public for the USPTO including Public PAIR #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Dave Abbott, Reed Technology and Information Services Inc – There’s a New U. S. Patent and Trademark Data Host in Town! #piug2013
Relecura / IndusTech @Relecura
Integrated search on patents & US assignments. Track current assignee & transactions in areas of interest #PIUG2013 pic.twitter.com/OEyq6NwwjF
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Luby – Comparison of application year to earliest priority year shows that in some cases they are closely correlated #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Luby – even assignee data which has already been cleaned up by a vendor will likely need to be scrubbed again for analysis #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Luby – suggests that when using INPADOC family counts that earliest priority year also be used for analysis #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Luby – looking at patent families, patent owners (assignees) and patent dates and standardizing these items is important #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Luby – one type of data cleanup involves resolving ownership for a particular patent of interest #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Matthew Luby, Landon IP – Applications of Data Cleaning in Patent Analytics #piug2013
STN @STNInfo
If you still haven’t seen Version One of the redesigned STN, be sure to stop by our exhibit table for a demo. #PIUG2013
Relecura / IndusTech @Relecura
Cluster on keywords & classes to bucket/cull large patent sets – and yes, we do CPC. Demo/trial on offer at #PIUG2013 pic.twitter.com/aqir97MYXR
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#piug2013 Don’t forget about the USPTO Tour Arranged Specifically for PIUG members! Details here http://goo.gl/SRjCC #patent
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#piug2013 Visit all of the Product Reviews & Showcases in the exhibit hall during the extended break 3:5 today
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#piug2013 followed by – There’s a New U. S. Patent and Trademark Data Host in Town by Dave Abbott, Reed Technology and Information Services
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#PIUG2013 also coming up this afternoon – What to Look for When Using US Public PAIRAnthony Trippe, Patinformatics LLC
Intellogist @Intellogist
Structure or sequence searching can be performed on items that already have registry numbers – unique results have been found! #piug2013
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#PIUG2013 Applications of Data Cleaning in Patent Analytics Matthew Luby, Landon IP next session
Intellogist @Intellogist
CAS indexing rules leave overlap – some molecules are given both sequence and structure indexing & should be searched both ways. #piug2013
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#PIUG2013 afternoon sessions begin at 2:30 w/Specialized Patent Information – Opening Remarks by Kristin Whitman, Landon IP
Intellogist @Intellogist
Miller: Some searches can’t be placed into just the chemistry or biology domain, and require collaboration between colleagues #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
KIPO – provided video on KIPRIS – a free global patent database available for the IP community, also includes services #piug2013
pat analyst @AnalystPat
Have to agree with Kim…. it is both duck season and rabbit season as she reiterates need for collaboration #piug2013
pat analyst @AnalystPat
Great talk BMS.. thanks for sharing! #piug2013
Relecura / IndusTech @Relecura
Relecura’s “Topic Map” of concepts and classes helps analyze patent portfolios. Ask for a demo/trial at #PIUG2013 pic.twitter.com/yD398gvzJ6
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Miller – unique answers were found using each specific type of search so comprehensiveness requires a variety of methods #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Miller – a comprehensive search require a keyword, chemical structure and sequence search to be complete #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Miller – the line of delineation between traditional chemistry and biology based searches is blurring #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Kim Miller, Novartis – Duck Season. Rabbit Season. Chemistry Search. Biology Search #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Yang – BMS estimates that they achieved a 90% increase in efficiency by using the linguistic tool as opposed to manual review #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Yang – delivered results of the semantic analysis in Excel format. Spotfire was then used to visualize the output #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Yang – needed to learn some IT skills to develop macros involving over 0K kinase synonyms to cover the entire project #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Yang – identified one patent per family from PatBase and retrieved XML from IBM patent handler and passed on to I2E system #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Yang – Used I2E from Linguamatics to extract relationships between therapeutic areas associated with known kinases #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Yun Yun Yang, Bristol-Myers Squibb – Leverage Text Analytics Tool in Patent Analysis to Empower Business Decisions #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Friedman – BRIC countries in general are seeing an increase in the number of US drug patents being filed for in their countries #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Friedman – There is a small number of pharma patent inventors coming from China, in Asia, Japan has most inventors #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Friedman – A little over 50% of the patents in the FDA Orange Book are provided by inventors from North America #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Friedman – Strong IP drives revenues and innovators clobber copycats, a single US drug makes more money than all drugs in India #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Friedman – Countries that pay more for drugs get new drugs faster, strong IP drives higher prices #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Friedman – five years worth of patent as a component of innovation data is available at http://SAworldview.com #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Yali Friedman, ThinkBiotech – Global Pharmaceutical Innovation: Using Patents to Track the Past and Predict the Future #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
EPO – patstat is linked to INPADOC legal status and to the European Patent Register covers 75M docs from 65 countries #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
As with any tool, in business critical cases verify by hand. Dbs suffer from bad info from PTOs, and regulatory rules change. #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
Recommended reliable products include Patent Focus (IMS health), Newport (Thomson Reuters), Pipeline Scope (GenericsWeb). #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
WIPS – Worldwide Intellectual Property Service – provides a global patent database as well as services 4 groups and patent offices #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
Computations must be done by hand. In Europe case law says different SPCs can apply to different compounds in same patent #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Article One – crowd sourcing research community made up of7,000 individuals from more than 00 countries from various fields #PIUG2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
Great talk: Natalie Pilote, Novartis on extended patent terms for pharmas. Rules vary by country, regulatory body, type of pharma #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Pilote – Services from IMS Health, Thomson Reuters and GenericsWeb were suggested as commercial sources for extension data #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Pilote – SPCs can be granted for combinations only if all active ingredients are covered in the same patent #PIUG2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
PIlote – As of02 more than one SPC can be applied to the same pharma composition with different indications #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Pilote – Canada and China do not provide pharmaceutical extensions for orphan or pediatric but they do allow regulatory extensions #PIUG2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Pilote – in the US there is a difference between term adjustments and extensions, adjustments deal w/ delays at the patent office #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Pilote – pharma patents can be extended through the use of patent term extension and supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) #PIUG2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
Basically if you’re interested in chemical patenting activity, get a copy of Matt McBride’s presentation. Get a PIUG membership! #piug2013
STN @STNInfo
McBride: New STN platform allows novel patent analysis techniques. #PIUG2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
BTW, ~6% of CN documents relate to electrical phenomena, in contrast to 21% of JP #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
Re-analysis of PCT chem applications should be done by priority country. Which countries are raising the PCT average? #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
WO publications have significantly higher number of substances disclosed per document, with an average of 36 per doc. #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Natalie Pilote, Novartis – Understanding And Locating Extended Patent Terms For Pharmaceuticals #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
Fascinating analysis performed on CAplus content per country over time. 7% of CN substances are pharma, while only 12% for JP #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
McBride – Top CA sections by country patent coverage include pharmaceuticals, electrical devices and food and feed #PIUG2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
McBride – for most countries about 50% of the documents have less than 5 compounds indexed by CAS #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
McBride – WO leads in substance average per document with mean of 29 compounds, with US and EP they have a little over 10 each #PIUG2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
McBride – more than 70% of new substances from lit registered in 2012 originated from patents #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
China has led as top patent authority in CAplus since 2010 #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
Although patent volume grows at a higher rate year over year, non-patent content far outnumbers patent content in CAplus #piug2013
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Also #PIUG2013 this morning talk on Duck Season. Rabbit Season. Chemistry Search. Biology Search – by Kim Miller, Novartis
STN @STNInfo
Matt McBride shows how CAS REGISTRY added 30 million substances in 4 years. #PIUG2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
McBride – CAS Registry experienced enormous growth in 2009 with addition of prophetic substances #PIUG2013
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#PIUG2013 Also talk by Yun Yun Yang from Bristol Myers on Leveraging Text Analytics Tool in Patent Analysis to Empower Business Decisions
Intellogist @Intellogist
CAS Registry was started in 1965! Amazing to think of. #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
McBride – Searchers, like surgeons, need to have confidence since the process is an inexact science and users look to us #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
Sorry for the slow tweets yesterday – I was having WiFi access issues! Let’s see how it goes today. #piug2013
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#PIUG2013 0:5 Session Case Studies in Chemical/Biological Patents includes talk on Global Pharma Innovation by Yali Friedman @ThinkBiotech
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Matt McBride, Science IP – Historical Impact of Major Patent Authorities on Chem Info in CAS REGISTRY and CAplus – A0-Year Exam #PIUG2013
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#PIUG2013 Updates from Article One Partners, WIPS & EPO also coming this morning #patent
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#PIUG2013 Followed by “Understanding & Locating Extended Patent Terms for Pharmaceuticals” by Natalie Pilote, Novartis #patent
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#PIUG2013 Next up talk on Impact of Major Patent Authorities on Chemical Info in Registry & CAplus by Matt McBride, Science IP
Anthony Trippe @atripper
IFI Claims – Building a global patent database which can be used to build custom collections for in-house use or hosted #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Intellixir – Version 8 was recently released including custom document ranking based on valuation rules #PIUG2013
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#PIUG2013 Meeting today morning sessions include updates from INTELLIXIR & IFI
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Don’t miss the Chemical Patent Information session at 8am #PIUG2013 Annual Conference!
STN @STNInfo
This morning during Session D, listen to Matt McBride explain how major patent authorities impact CAS REGISTRY and CAplus. #PIUG2013
STN @STNInfo 30m
Our staff had a great evening at the #PIUG2013 anniversary gala. Hope to see you tomorrow morning at 7:15 for our sponsored breakfast!
Intellogist @Intellogist
Methods of identifying “probably lapsed” applications has come up several times already at this conference #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
TPR – Focusing on providing services associated with the changes coming from the American Invents Act #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
GenomeQuest – introduced extended legal status and national stage information and patent assignee standardization to system #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Weber – also decided to modify their existing patent analysis tool as well as purchasing a new patent analysis tool #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
@mnarenivar Oh yeah, Korean has been a big problem – anyone that can improve KR MT will have a significant advantage #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Weber – evaluated 3 search tools in 2009 based on input from divisions, made decision in 2010 and implemented system in 2 months #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
David Weber – Corning Incorporated – Updating our Patent Search and Analysis Tools #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Stignani – valuation methods rely heavily on claim coverage and whether the items covered in the claims tie to a product #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Stignani – suggests derivative analytic solutions by combining financial with bibliograph data or bib data with prosecution data #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Stignani – Establish an internal custom function ontology for classifying data for understanding by executives #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Stignani – Analytics can be usefully inserted into most places within the overall patent prosecution lifecycle #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Stignani – identifying relationships in portfolios (families) and providing summarizations to engineers and leaders is critical #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Stignani – portfolios should be mapped to products and patents that are not being used should be abandoned or sold #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Mark Stignani – Schwegman – Debabelizing the Portfolio: Embedding Patent Analysis in Your Patent Portfolio Processes #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
LexisNexis – Have added CPC and find corporate subsidiary functions into Total Patent and continue to provide semantic analysis #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
VantagePoint – major enhancements to super profiles which provides combination of custom visualizations saved as a template #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Questel – Orbit has added display & toolbar customization, recent history and a “more like this” features to the system #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Tinsley – patent equivalents among countries (families) are helpful for building machine translation systems #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Tinsley – Collated statistics and phrase to phrase probabilities are used to generate models for machine translations #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Tinsley – Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) is the primary method used for creating machine translation services #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
John Tinsley – IP Translator – Understanding Machine Translation and the Challenge of Patents #piug2013
AnneBarschall @AnneBarschall
@atripper Interesting. I’ve particularly had problems with online machine translations with Korean, Taggalog, and Indonesian. #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Flammer – EPO is manually scoring each language to compare their machine translations to a corresponding human one #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Flammer – by the end of 2013 EPO will be up to2 different languages where machine translation can be utilized #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Flammer – translation conducted through Espacenet does not leave a trace of the actual user on Google were translation is done #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Flammer – The European Patent Office partnered with Google to provide machine translations for many different languages #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Richard Flammer – EPO – Overcoming the language barrier – The EPO’s Patent Translate service #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
FIZ Karlsruhe has added calculated expiration dates – using over 400 rules to predict these dates. I assume these include SPCs… #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
17 databases on STN are now searchable by numerical properties – including Compendex (!!) #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
STN – Calculated patent expiration dates have been added to the INPADOC data for 30 countries, based on 400 rules #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Minesoft – Adding Cross Language Patent Assignees – this will help searchers to increase their recall when looking at Asian Cos #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Murphy – Thomson Reuters providing an IP Analytics Strength Index which looks at several patent metrics to score portfolios #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Murphy – patent information professionals need to provide distilled information for business decision making #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Murphy – Nokia is making significant royalty income since they are leveraging their patent portfolio to drive growth #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Into Future Together: Challenges 4 Providers & Users Pat Info in Fast-moving World – Cynthia Murphy, Thomson Reuters #piug2013
IPTranslator.com @IPTranslator
I get the feeling Kristine Atkinson is not the biggest fan of Google! #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Atkinson – different browsers will present and filter results coming back to the user differently based on your history #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Atkinson – search queries at certain sites are collected and saved and can be later retrieved by others #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Kristine Atkinson – A/A Patent Investigations – Patent Informatics in a Filter Bubble Age #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Bachmann – Relied on registers in individual countries after identifying family members from INPADOC on a country by country basis #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Bachmann – Used an Excel spreadsheet segregated by EP basic family in one tab and used additional tabs for extended family #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Bachmann – client needed to understand how many family members were still in-force in order to continue paying licensing fees #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Carol Bachmann – 3M – Using Multiple Online and Single Country Legal Status Databases to Resolve Licensing Fee Issues #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
Thomson Innovation now stresses conference proceedings content-does this database exist outside of Innovation? I must discover… #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
Thomson Innovation debuting enhanced non-patent literature search – added “related references” tool relays on citations. #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
#piug2013 BizInt Smart Charts for Patents has been a @PIUG sponsor for the last 15 years and demoed reference rows feature
Anthony Trippe @atripper
#piug2013 full-text non-patent lit now available through Thomson Innovation, the NPL coverage has also been added and can be analyzed
Anthony Trippe @atripper
#piug2013 Thomson Innovation allowing users to find similar patent references based on shared backward citations
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Rea – 27 Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) bilateral agreements currently in place, hope to get to one standardized agreement soon #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Rea – @uspto looking to change RCE practice at the office so examination is more compact and finishes without them #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Rea – looking to accomplish first OA in 10 months and complete examination in 20 months for @uspto filings #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Rea – First to Invent vs. First Inventor to File will be clearly marked on the file wrapper and Public PAIR for each case #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Rea – APJs, Administrative Patent Judges are in place in satellite offices Dallas, Detroit, Denver and Silicon Valley #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Rea – ~68% of IPR filings are coming from the electronics area with nearly 200 judges as members of the PTAB #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Rea – Inter Partes Reviews are popular with 209 cases having been filed for since initiation, business method cases are smaller #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Rea – 57 third party submissions have occurred across almost all art units many including more than one reference #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Rea – Track examination is now $4K, a small decrease and first OA is generally occurring within a six month period #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Rea – Track system allows applicants to determine the pace of examination in the US based on business needs and strategy #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Rea – 2.1 million jobs, $5 trillion GDP and $775 billion in exports are attributed to IP-related industries and jobs #piug2013
IPTranslator.com @IPTranslator
We’re speaking about Machine Translation at the @PIUG conference today! #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Teresa Stanek Rea – USPTO – The USPTO: Transformation and Engagement #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Keynote Address for #piug2013 being given by Teresa Stanek Rea Acting Director of the @uspto
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Jason Foley is the013 Brian Stockdale Award winner, he is a student of applied physics from Univ of Michigan #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
PIUG 2014 Annual Conference will be held April 16-May 2nd in Orange County, California #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
After a time period of financial concern for the organization PIUG has covered nicely and is currently fiscally sound #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
I never cease to be astonished by the amazing commitment and dedication of PIUG volunteers. I’m very grateful for their work. #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
56 attendees participated in the business meeting this afternoon during #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Members relations committee seeking help new members become accustomed to being member of PIUG. 70 st time attendees this year #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
66 attendees participated in the013 Biotech Meeting, the meeting was profitable an was well received by attendees #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
September 30-October 2 dates for the 2013 PIUG NE Conference, again at Heldrich in New Bruinswick #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
110 attendees participated in the PIUG NE Conference this year, while not a record it was great attendance and profitable #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
The inaugural Stu Kaback Business Impact Award will be presented on Monday during the gala dinner #piug2013
Anthony Trippe @atripper
New membership committee and a new five-year strategic plan were mentioned during the business meeting at #piug2013
Intellogist @Intellogist
All those following me at #piug13, please start following #piug2013!
Anthony Trippe @atripper
240 attendees this year for #piug2013 in Alexandria, VA
Anthony Trippe @atripper
Strategic planning committee suggests the hiring of a professional marketing service and Executive Director #piug13
Intellogist @Intellogist
PatBase went through a server upgrade in early 2013, and users should have seen speed improvements. #piug13
Intellogist @Intellogist
… And help vendors spot weaknesses in their products as well. #piug13
Intellogist @Intellogist
Developing real-life scenarios is difficult but will show products off to better advantage… #piug13
Intellogist @Intellogist
Almost all vendors fall into the habit of running extremely simple searches as basis for demonstrating their product functionality #piug13
Intellogist @Intellogist
Orbit now allows searches to be limited to (US) patents that have been litigated. Have also added “likely abandoned” tags. #piug13
Intellogist @Intellogist
Questel has started partnership with business intelligence company link out to co. data – include this in-system in future. #piug13
Intellogist @Intellogist
Run search queries on the fly in IPBI to narrow set- b/c the product is integrated w/Orbit, you can even reference line numbers #piug13
Intellogist @Intellogist
IPBI’s topographical keyword clustering tool is highly customizable, allows deletion of undesired concepts #piug13
Intellogist @Intellogist
IPBI allows you to create data cleaning rules (eg assignee groupings) and save them as a thesaurus to apply to other projects #piug13
Intellogist @Intellogist
It’s obvious that a lot of thought went into the development of Questel’s IPBI analysis tool. It’s advanced for the analysis field #piug13
野崎篤志 @conductor_hvk
現在米国アレキサンドリアで開催されているPIUGに同僚のKristin Whitman、Matt Lubyが登壇します ：
Landon IP Active at This Week’s PIUG Annual Conference http://landonip.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/landon-ip-active-at-this-weeks-piug-annual-conference/ …
STN @STNInfo
Don’t miss the STN product update today at:25 pm during Session A. #PIUG
STN @STNInfo
Have you seen Version One of the redesigned STN? Stop by our exhibit table for a demo. #PIUG
STN @STNInfo
Beginning today, follow STN manager TJ Bowen as he attends #PIUG in Alexandria, VA. http://ow.ly/kwG7V
Anthony Trippe @atripper
#piug2013 BizInt Smart Charts for Patents has been a @PIUG sponsor for the last 15 years and demoed reference rows feature
Patent Solutions @PatentSolutions
Today at PIUG – Cynthia Murphy discusses the challenges for providers and users of patent information http://ow.ly/kwxy7
pat analyst @AnalystPat
Hello PIUG World / first tweet ever.. keep all the other tweets coming..! Makes for a good trip report..
IPTranslator.com @IPTranslator
We’re speaking about Machine Translation at the @PIUG conference today at:20pm! #piug2013
PIUG @PIUG
#PIUG the Annual Conference today? Don’t miss 9am Keynote by Teresa Stanek Rea, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce & Acting Director USPTO
野崎篤志 @conductor_hvk
いまアメリカ・アレキサンドリアにてPIUGが開催中。明日はランドンIPの同僚、ライブラリアンのKristin、分析グループのディレクターLubyが登壇します。DC近辺の方でご興味ある方は是非とも足をお運びください。
Patent Solutions @PatentSolutions
Are you at PIUG? Don’t miss – Thomson Innovation: Enhanced Sources & Insight – today atpm http://ow.ly/kv3pn
Munchkin7393 @munchkin73938 Apr
Back PIUG conf. On train now. Today’s sessions starting much earlier than yesterday. Ugh.
Relecura / IndusTech @Relecura7 Apr
@PIUG Hello, would appreciate a follow and a retweet about our workshop tomorrow at #PIUG13 Thanks
Relecura / IndusTech @Relecura7 Apr
Do register for our workshop @PIUG 2013 http://is.gd/0up8gA tomorrow. We have lots of cool features to show you #PIUG13
Munchkin7393 @munchkin7393
Free workshop PIUG conf 4 members – Personal Branding: Communicating the Authentic U. PIUG is Patent Information Users Group.
Linguamatics @Linguamatics
If you’re heading to the @piug Annual Conference be sure to pop by @Linguamatics booth for a demo of our #patent solution #PIUG
STN @STNInfo
If you’re attending @PIUG013 in Alexandria next week, register for our free STN #Patent Forum on . http://ow.ly/ksdp9
PIUG @PIUG
#PIUG Annual Meeting starts tomorrow April 27th! It’s not too late to register for the meeting & workshops http://www.piug.org/an3meeting #patent
IPTranslator.com @IPTranslator
Happy World Intellectual Property day! How appropriate that we’re en route to Alexandria for the annual PIUG conference! #patents
John Tinsley @johntins
Happy Word Intellectual Property Day! To celebrate, I’m off to Alexandria, VA., home of the USPTO to attend the annual PIUG conference