2018 ANNUAL CONFERENCECelebrating 30 Years of Patent Information: Past, Present & Future May 5–10, 2018 Westin Alexandria Alexandria, Virginia

Saturday, May 5, 2018

8:30 am 10:30 am Patent Information & Intelligence That Senior Managers Really Need… (Riser IP) – FEE Bell

10:30 am 11:30 am USPTO Initiatives: Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) (USPTO) – Free Banneker

12:00 pm 1:00 pm USPTO Initiatives: Global Dossier and eCommerce Modernization (USPTO) – Free Banneker

1:00 pm 2:00 pm Empower Patent Experts with AI-Powered Patent Classifier (Siriussoft) – Free Bell

2:00 pm 3:00 pm DWPI & the Science of Data (Clarivate Analytics) – Followed by Nationals vs. Phillies at Nationals Park – Free Banneker

Sunday, May 6, 2018

8:00 am 9:00 am Google Patents Public Datasets - SQL database, statistical analysis, reporting (Google) – Free Banneker

9:00 am 10:00 am Forward Rejections: New Value Creation (Anaqua) – Free Edison AB

10:00 am 11:00 am Minesoft tools: Tips, Enhancements, Roadmap & Chemical Searching (Minesoft) – Free Banneker

11:00 am 12:00 pm Creating IP Reports Integrating Sequence, Family and Hit Structure Data (BizInt Smart Charts) – Free Edison AB

12:00 pm 1:00 pm You can do WHAT with GenomeQuest? Helpful Features & Capabilities that Aren’t Widely Known (GQ Life Sciences) Banneker

1:00 pm 2:00 pm Google Patents for Power Users - searching, tutorials, etc. (Google) – Free Edison D-G

2:00 pm 3:00 pm Latest Innovations and what’s next for Questel (Questel) – Free Wright

3:00 pm 4:00 pm Optimizing Smart Search in Derwent Innovation (Clarivate Analytics) – Free Edison AB

4:00 pm 5:00 pm Quantifying Innovation (CPA Global) – Free Bell

5:15 pm 6:30 pm PIUG Business Meeting (All conference attendees) Edison

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

7:30 pm 9:30 pm Opening Reception in Exhibit Hall – exhibits open (All conference attendees). Sponsored by the Gold Sponsors. Edison Foyer

Monday, May 7, 2018

7:00 am 8:00 am Breakfast and Open Exhibits. Sponsored by the Silver Sponsors. Edison Foyer

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

8:15 am 9:15 am Keynote Address (Joseph Matal, USPTO)

9:15 am 9:30 am Product Updates (STN, Clarivate Analytics, BizInt Solutions)

9:30 am 10:00 am Break. Sponsored by the Bronze Sponsors. Edison Foyer

10:00 am Session A: Past, Present, and Future (Chairperson: Martha Yates) Edison

10:05 am 10:25 am The Way We Were – The Founding and Early Days of PIUG (Edlyn Simmons, Simmons Patent Information Service)

10:25 am 10:55 am 30 Years of Patent Information: Past, Present & Future (Alan Porter & Nils Newman, Search Technology)

10:55 am 11:25 am An Exemplary Patent Landscape Analysis for the Cancer Moonshot Challenge (Yateen Pargaonkar, Riser IP)

11:25 am 11:55 am Improving Your Search Results with Lesser Known Data in STN Databases (Scott Hertzog, CAS)

11:55 am 12:10 pm Product Updates (Minesoft, IFI Claims, CPA Global)

12:10 pm 1:10 pm Lunch. Sponsored by PIUG and the Gold Sponsors. Edison Foyer

1:10 pm Session B: Search Applications (Chairperson: Tony Trippe) Edison

1:15 pm 1:45 pm Additive Manufacturing – The Developing IP Landscape (Kevin J. Hess, PhD, Patent Technics)

1:45 pm 2:15 pm Do Mergers Stifle Innovation? (Christopher Baldwin, PatentSight)

2:15 pm 2:30 pm Product Updates (IP.com, Questel, Search Technology)

2:30 pm 3:00 pm Break. Sponsored by the Bronze Sponsors. Edison Foyer

3:00 pm Session C: PIUG Future Reflections (Chairperson: Stephen Adams) Edison

3:05 pm 3:15 pm Patent Olympiad (Andrea Davis, Bodkin IP)

3:15 pm 3:45 pm Defining the Future of Patent Data & Analytics (Daniel Videtto, Bob Stembridge & Paul Torpey, Clarivate Analytics)

3:45 pm 4:30 pm Reflections on Legal Patent Search Types – Looking Back Nearly 30 Years (Lucy Teixera Antunes, DuPont)

4:30 pm 4:45 pm Product Updates (ktMINE, Siriussoft, TPR)

6:00 pm 10:30 pm 6-7 pm: Cocktail Hour & Reception. Sponsored by European Patent Office. 7-10:30 pm: PIUG Gala & Awards Dinner. Sponsored by PIUG

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Tuesday, May 8, 2018

7:00 am 8:00 am Breakfast and Open Exhibits. Sponsored by the Silver Sponsors. Edison Foyer

8:00 am Session D: Advanced Searching and Worldwide Partners (Chairperson: Heather Simmons) Edison

8:05 am 8:25 am Exemplified Compounds Table Display Linked to Citing Publications (Maddy Marley, GlaxoSmithKline)

8:25 am 8:45 am Chemical Searching Made Possible by Automated Chemical Structure Extraction (Daniel Lowe, Minesoft)

8:45 am 10:15 am Panel Discussion on Partnerships and Patent Offices (PPO) Collaboration (Moderators: Cynthia Barcelon Yang, Elliott Linder)

10:15 am 10:25 am Product Updates (EPO, IP Korea Center)

10:25 am 11:55 am No-Conflict Open Exhibits Edison Foyer

11:55 am 12:55 pm Lunch with Committee Meetings. Sponsored by PIUG and the Gold Sponsors. Edison Foyer

12:55 pm Session E: Overcoming Search Challenges (Chairperson: Ron Kaminecki) Edison

1:00 pm 1:25 pm Intelligent Presentation of Sequence Search Results (Stephen Allen, GenomeQuest)

1:25 pm 1:50 pm Computer-Assisted Deep Analysis of Chemical Patents at Document Level (Árpád Figyelmesi, ChemAxon)

1:50 pm 2:10 pm Aim for the Goal of Intellectual Property Information Professional with Artificial Intelligence (Ben Kirayama)

2:10 pm 2:40 pm What You Don’t Know has Already Hurt You - Digging into Neglected Corners of IP Rights Information (Stephen Adams, Magister)

2:40 pm 2:55 pm Product Updates (KIPI, GQ Life Sciences, Gridlogics)

2:55 pm 3:25 pm Break. Sponsored by the Bronze Sponsors. Edison Foyer

3:25 pm Session F: Patent Search Case Studies (Chairperson: Shelley Pavlek) Edison

3:30 pm 3:50 pm Resuscitating the Elusive Patent Description (Kristine Atkinson)

3:50 pm 4:15 pm State of the Art in Patent Search – a Technologist’s Perspective (Mihai Lupu)

4:15 pm 4:35 pm Uniting Patent Data Sources with BigQuery (Janice Stevenson, IFI CLAIMS Patent Service)

4:35 pm 4:55 pm “Scour the Earth” Invalidity Searching: When Deep Dive Searching is Appropriate and Strategies to Support It (Matthew Benavides, CPA Global)

4:55 pm 5:15 pm Exploring New Business Fields from the Core Technology by “Stepwise Conception” Method (Izumi Tsuzuki, HIT Institute)

5:30 pm 7:30 pm Cocktail Reception at the Carlyle Club, 2050 Ballenger Ave., Alexandria. Sponsored by Clarivate Analytics. Carlyle Club

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

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

7:00 am 8:00 am Breakfast and Open Exhibits. Sponsored by the Silver Sponsors. Edison Foyer

8:00 am Session G: An Independent Viewpoint and Thorough Searching (Chairperson: Andrea Davis) Edison

8:05 am 9:05 am Panel Discussion with Independent Patent Research Professionals: Lessons From Outside the Box Moderator: Cathy Chiba, Dauratus Research

9:05 am 9:35 am Patentscope: A Use Case Scenario (William Keyser, WIPO)

9:35 am 10:05 am AI meets IP: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Improve IP Discovery and Monitoring (Joy L. Bryant & Sven Brueckner, Convergent AI)

10:05 am 10:35 am Break. Sponsored by the Bronze Sponsors. Edison Foyer

10:35 am Session H: Worldwide Searching Issues and Resolutions (Chairperson: Dominic DeMarco) Edison

10:40 am 11:10 am Emerging IP and Litigation for IoT Technologies (Kenie Ho, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner)

11:10 am 11:40 am From the Early Days of Patent Searching to a New Espacenet and Future Tools (Heiko Wongel, European Patent Office)

11:40 am 12:10 pm Trust – The Key Factor When Outsourcing the Search and Analysis of Data (René Sørensen, NPI and DKPTO)

12:10 pm 1:10 pm Lunch. Sponsored by PIUG and the Gold Sponsors. Edison Foyer

1:10 pm Session J: A Case Study and Classification (Chairperson: Tom Wolff) Edison

1:15 pm 1:45 pm Case Studies in Deep Learning-based Patent Analytics (Sumeet Sandhu, PhD, Elementary IP)

1:45 pm 2:25 pm Classification Fundamentals – How Documents are Classified (Tonya Heyboer and Brett Johnson, Serco North America)

2:25 pm 2:55 pm Break. Sponsored by the Bronze Sponsors. Edison Foyer

2:55 pm Session K: The Future of Searching (Chairperson: Martha Yates) Edison

3:00 pm 3:30 pm More Bang for Your Buck – Assessing Return on Investment in Public Research (Leo Ming Hei Lai, IP Australia)

3:30 pm 4:00 pm Hybrid Search: Why it’s the Right Time to Integrate AI-Driven Search with Boolean (Nasreen Brady, IP.com)

4:00 pm 4:20 pm Prior Art of the Prior Art (Ron Kaminecki, Kaminecki IP)

4:20 pm 4:35 pm Closing Remarks - Looking forward to 2019 (Martha Yates, PIUG Chair)

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

Thursday, May 10, 2018

8:00 am 9:30 am Sneak Preview of New Espacenet (EPO) – Free Banneker

9:30 am 4:30 pm STN Patent Forum (STN) – Free Wright

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