2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCEAn International Conference for Patent Information ProfessionalsMay 20 – 25, 2017 Crowne Plaza Atlanta Perimeter Atlanta, Georgia

Saturday, May 20, 2017 8:45 am 12:30 pm “Making It to the Premiership” – A Review of the Rising Stars in the IP Information Space (Stephen Adams) – FEE Maplewood

1:00 pm 4:00 pm The EPO Patent Information Products Road Show - 2017 (EPO) – Free Maplewood

Sunday, May 21, 2017 8:00 am 9:00 am Global Patent Dossier (USPTO) – Free Maplewood

9:00 am 10:00 am Creating IP Reports with BizInt Smart Charts for Patents: Tips & Tricks (BizInt) – Free Dunwoody A

9:00 am 10:00 am A Revolution in Innovation: New Data and Tools for Improved Patent Analysis (Clarivate Analytics) – Free Dunwoody B

10:00 am 11:30 am Bridging the Gap between Searchers and Internal Clients with Evalueserve’s IP and R&D Dashboard (Evalueserve) Maplewood

11:30 am 12:30 pm Introducing PatSeer Pro–Serious analysis tools with great looking, flexible and interactive visualizations! (Gridlogics) Dunwoody C

11:30 am 1:30 pm The Road Ahead – Questel’s Latest Innovations, Partnerships, and Data Curating Techniques (Questel) – Free Oakwood

1:00 pm 2:00 pm Complexities in Sequence Searching (GQ Life Sciences) – Free Dunwoody A

1:00 pm 2:00 pm Broaden Your Patent Search Horizons With The Latest Solutions From Minesoft (Minesoft) – Free Dunwoody B

2:00 pm 3:30 pm Tech Mining Patents (Search Technology) – Free Maplewood

4:00 pm 5:30 pm PIUG Business Meeting (All conference attendees) Ravinia ABC

6:30 pm 7:30 pm First-Time Attendee Welcome & Orientation Reception (First Time PIUG Conference attendees) Camellia

7:30 pm 9:30 pm Opening Reception in Exhibit Hall – exhibits open (All conference attendees). Sponsored by the Emerald Sponsors Ravinia EFG

Monday, May 22, 2017 7:00 am 8:00 am Breakfast and Open Exhibits. Sponsored by the Sapphire Sponsors Ravinia EFG

8:00 am 8:15 am Welcome and Introductions (Martha Yates, PIUG Chair) Ravinia ABC

8:15 am 9:15 am Keynote Address: Goals, Tasks, and Information Retrieval (Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers University)

9:15 am 9:35 am Product Updates (Search Technology, Evalueserve, BizInt Solutions, STN)

9:35 am 10:05 am Break. Sponsored by the Amethyst Sponsors Ravinia EFG

10:05 am Session A: Sponsored Talks and Search and Statistics 101 (Chairperson: Dominic DeMarco, DeMarco IP) Ravinia ABC

10:10 am 10:40 am Search Technology: Patent Information from Our Vantage Point (Nils Newman, Search Technology)

10:40 am 11:05 am Finessing Patent Related Information (Barbara Miller, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR))

11:05 am 11:30 am Machine Translation of Patents. Here to Stay? (Jane List, Extract Information; Editor-in-Chief, World Patent Information)

11:30 am 11:55 am Quick Automation or Laborious Manual Tagging – Finding the Right Balance (Andrea Davis)

11:55 am 12:25 pm Bringing Clarity to your IPR+D Search and Intelligence (Anoop Sankar, Evalueserve)

12:25 pm 1:25 pm Lunch. Sponsored by the Emerald Sponsors Ravinia EFG

1:25 pm Session B: Searching non-text parameters (Chairperson: Ron Kaminecki, Questel) Ravinia ABC

1:30 pm 1:55 pm Single Pass Numerical Matching – a Linguistic Solution to Numerical Searching (David Woolls, CFL Software Limited)

1:55 pm 2:20 pm Finding Formulations: Challenges and Opportunities (Matthew McBride, ScienceIP (CAS))

2:20 pm 2:45 pm PATENTSCOPE Functionalities (Iustin Diaconescu, WIPO)

2:45 pm 3:05 pm Product Updates (Clarivate Analytics, Reed Tech, Minesoft, GQ Life Sciences)

3:05 pm 3:35 pm Break. Sponsored by the Amethyst Sponsors Ravinia EFG

3:35 pm Session C: Patent Valuation & Product Development (Chairperson: Lucy Antunes, DuPont) Ravinia ABC

3:40 pm 4:05 pm Prior Art Searches at Various Levels of Product Pyramid – A Startup Perspective (Vivek Doulatani, Ather Energy)

4:05 pm 4:30 pm Patent Information Analysis for Creating New Business (Jo Sagawa, AsahiKASEI Corporation)

4:30 pm 4:50 pm Back to the Future (Bob Stembridge and Daniel Videtto, Clarivate Analytics)

6:00 pm 7:00 pm Cocktail Hour & Reception. Sponsored by Clarivate Analytics. Dunwoody

7:00 pm 10:30 pm PIUG Gala & Awards Dinner. Sponsored by PIUG Dunwoody

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

7:30 am 8:30 am Breakfast and Open Exhibits. Sponsored by the Sapphire Sponsors Ravinia EFG

8:30 am 8:50 am Product Updates (Questel, IP.com, IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, Gridlogics) Ravinia ABC

8:50 am 9:55 am Session D: Moderated Q&A Panel on Patent Searcher Certification. Moderator - Jane List, Extract Information. Barbara Miller, Novartis; Rong Yang, Allergan; Robert Grantham, Reveal-IP LLC

Ravinia ABC

9:55 am 10:15 am Timelines: A Visualization Option for FTO Analysis Built with BizInt Smart Charts and Visio (Gregory Roland, Novartis, and Matt Eberle, BizInt)

10:15 am 10:30 am Product Updates (EPO, Nordic Patent Institute, TPR International)

10:30 am 12:00 noon No-Conflict Open Exhibits Ravinia EFG

12:00 noon 1:00 pm Lunch with Committee Meetings. Sponsored by PIUG. Ravinia EFG

1:00 pm Session E: Information Retrieval & Patent Quality (Chairperson: Nigel Clarke, European Patent Office) Ravinia ABC

1:05 pm 1:30 pm Modern Semantic Search – Similarity Search in Patents via Deep Learning (Sumeet Sandhu, Elementary IP)

1:30 pm 1:55 pm Auto-identification of High Emergence Patents (Alan Porter, Search Technology)

1:55 pm 2:20 pm Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Neural Networks: What Does All of this Have to do with Patent Analytics? (Parthiban Srinivasan, Parthys Reverse Informatics)

2:20 pm 2:45 pm The Enhanced Patent Quality Initiative and Search: A Brief Timeline with Options for the Future (Robert Grantham, Reveal-IP LLC)

2:45 pm 3:05 pm Winning the Game of Cat and Mouse: Helping IP Searchers Find Elusive Patents (Brian Sweet, STN)

3:05 pm 3:10 pm Product Updates (IP Korea Center)

3:10 pm 3:40 pm Break. Sponsored by the Amethyst Sponsors Ravinia EFG

3:40 pm Session F: IP Policy & Patent Offices (Chairperson: Jim Brown, FIZ Karlsruhe) Ravinia ABC

3:45 pm 4:10 pm Industry 4.0 and the Role of Patent Information in Innovation: EPO Perspective (Nigel Clarke, European Patent Office)

4:10 pm 4:35 pm National IPR Policy of India and Its Implementation (Raj Hirwani, CSIR-URDIP)

7:00 pm 10:00 pm Networking Dinners (Sign-up sheet at registration desk. Meal at own cost.)

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Crowne Plaza Atlanta Perimeter at Ravinia

4355 Ashford Dunwoody Road Atlanta, GA 30346

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Registration

Wednesday, May 24, 2017 7:30 am 8:30 am Breakfast and Open Exhibits. Sponsored by the Sapphire Sponsors Ravinia EFG 8:30 am 9:35 am Session G: Moderated Q&A Panel Initiatives & Innovations in Technology Underlying Patent Search Tools

Moderator - Cathy Chiba, Dauratus Research Yateen Pargaonkar, Abbott; Andrea Davis; Sumeet Sandhu, Elementary IP

Ravinia ABC

9:35 am 10:05 am Break. Sponsored by the Amethyst Sponsors Ravinia EFG

10:05 am Session H: Visualization Tools (Tom Wolff, Wolff Information Consulting LLC) Ravinia ABC

10:10 am 10:35 am Study on the Effectiveness of “A SWOT Analysis” (Tsutomu (Ben) Kiriyama, Raytec Ltd.)

10:35 am 11:00 am Patent Analysis and Visualization: An Update on Challenges and Opportunities (Nils Newman, Search Technology)

11:00 am 11:25 am Next-Generation Semantic Mapping and Landscaping (James Durkin, IP.com)

11:25 am Session I: USPTO Update (Heather Simmons, University of Illinois College of Law) Ravinia ABC

11:30 am 12:00 noon USPTO Update (Jessica Patterson, USPTO)

12:00 noon 1:00 pm Lunch. Sponsored by the Emerald Sponsors Ravinia EFG

1:00 pm Session J: Patent Searcher Valuation (Chairperson: Heather Simmons, University of Illinois College of Law) Ravinia ABC

1:05 pm 1:30 pm Jumpstart: IP Quarrying for R&D (Kris Atkinson, A/A Patent Investigations)

1:30 pm 1:55 pm Seeing Our Work Through Other Eyes: Talking to Engineers About Patents and Patent Information (Cathy Chiba, Dauratus Research)

1:55 pm 2:20 pm A Real Patent Searcher Should Perform Beyond Just a Patent Searcher (Rong Yang, Allergan)

2:20 pm 2:45 pm Soft Skills, Neglected Features in a Hardcore Technical Environment (Bodil Hasling, Danish Patent and Trademark Office)

2:45 pm 3:15 pm Break. Sponsored by the Amethyst Sponsors Ravinia EFG

3:15 pm Session K: Bonus Session (Chairperson: Martha Yates, PIUG Chair, Monsanto) Ravinia ABC

3:20 pm 3:45 pm GTMI: Engage, Leverage, Accelerate (Ben Wang, Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute)

3:45 pm Session L: Unconventional Prior Art (Chairperson: Stephen Adams, Magister) Ravinia ABC

3:50 pm 4:15 pm Fast, Free, and Available: A Shunpiker’s Road to NPL Databases & Grey Lit in the Library and Online (Barbara J. Hampton, RedLine Information Services)

4:15 pm 4:40 pm Locating Unconventional Prior Art (Ron Kaminecki, Questel)

4:40 pm 4:55 pm Closing Remarks - Looking forward to 2018 (Martha Yates, PIUG Chair)

7:00 pm 10:00 pm Networking Dinners (Sign-up sheet at registration desk. Meal at own cost.)

Thursday, May 25, 2017 9:00 am 3:00 pm STN Patent Forum (STN) – Free Maplewood

9:00 am 12:00 noon What’s new in CPC – recent changes and Searching in CPC - Practical Tips (USPTO) – Free Oakwood