Selective Diary of Conferences, Exhibitions, and Courses

Selective Diary of Conferences, Exhibitions, and Courses

World Patent Information 31 (2009) 358–359 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect World Patent Information journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/loc...

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World Patent Information 31 (2009) 358–359

Contents lists available at ScienceDirect

World Patent Information journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/worpatin

Conference report

Selective diary of conferences, exhibitions, and courses Editor’s Notes: 1. The most up-to-date version of the Selective Diary is available online on ScienceDirect. 2. If you produce or have access to suitable information for this section, please include me in your regular mailings (at [email protected]) Once again, the conference listings at the IP Menu site (www.ipmenu.com) and the PIUG site (www.piug.org) have been particularly valuable in compiling the selective diary in Section 1. 1. Selective diary of conferences and exhibitions 2009 PIUG 2009 Northeast Conference October 2009 New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA ICIC 2009 (The International Conference on Trends for Scientific Information Professionals – Infonortics) 18–21 October 2009 Sitges, Spain IPWARE Summit 2009 21–23 October 2009 Saint-Raphael, France PERI – Patent Information for the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industries – Workshop 26–28 October 2009 Arlington, VA, USA EPO European Patent Information Conference 3–5 November 2009 Biarritz, France 2nd International Workshop on patent Information Retrieval (PaIR’09) 6 November 2009 Hong Kong, PR China 2009 Patent Information Fair and Conference 4–6 November 2009 Tokyo, Japan PATINEX 2009 (http://eng.patinex.org/mainE.jsp) 10–11 November 2009 Seoul, Korea

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2009 TREC Conference 17–20 November 2009 Gaithersburg, MD, USA [Information Retrieval Facility Symposium, which was previously in November, will now be a summer event, in 2010 onwards] Online Information and Information Management Solutions Conference and Exhibition 1–3 December 2009 Olympia, London, UK 2010 Patent & Innovation (Applied Econometrics Association/www. aea-eu.com) 21–22 January 2010 Melbourne, Australia IPC User Seminar (WIPO) February 2010 IPI-ConfEx 7–10 March 2010 Lisbon, Portugal 239th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition 21–25 March 2010 San Francisco, CA, USA PIUG Annual Conference 1–6 May 2010 Baltimore, USA Patlib Conference 12–14 May 2010 Dresden, Germany 132nd International Trademark Association Annual Meeting (INTA) 22–26 May 2010 Boston, Massachusetts, USA 29th European Community Trademarks Association Annual Conference (ECTA) 16–19 June 2010 Barcelona, Spain

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240th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition 22–26 August 2010 Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Intellectual Property International, of Sausalito, CA, USA, at +1 415289-7471, or by email at [email protected].

42nd World Intellectual Property Congress (AIPPI) 1–6 October 2010 Paris, France

A UK based company, TFPL provides a wide range of courses for information specialists, researchers, librarians, knowledge-, content – and records – managers, and knowledge architects. For more information, see www.tfpl.com.

EPO Patent Information Conference October/November 2010

2.4. Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute

2011 241st American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition

Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, University of London, organises regular seminars on a variety of current topics in intellectual property. For further information on these seminars, see www.qmipri.org.

27–31 March 2011 Anaheim, California, USA 133rd International Trademark Association Annual Meeting (INTA) 14–18 May 2011 San Francisco, California, USA 30th European Community Trademarks Association Annual Conference (ECTA) 8–11 June 2011 Stockholm, Sweden 242nd American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition 28 August–1 September 2011 Chicago, Illinois, USA

2.3. TFPL Ltd: Training courses

2.5. Landon IP School of Intellectual Property ResearchTM (SIPR) SIPR trains professionals in patent searching, patent analysis, trademark searching and invention disclosure drafting. All classes and seminars are taught by expert patent attorneys, patent information scientists or former patent examiners. For further information: Rob Cunningham at +1 703 486 1150 or at [email protected]. 2.6. Pierce Law The Franklin Pierce Law Center is located in Concord, New Hampshire, USA and offers a number of IP related courses, including PCT seminars for example. For more information, see http:// www. piercelaw.edu. 2.7. WIPO Worldwide Academy

2. Selective information on courses and training Editor’s note: The extensive training programmes provided by online databases, hosts, patent offices and vendors are readily obtained directly from those organisations and are not included here. Links to these and many other forms of training courses are easily found at sites such as PIUG (www.piug.org) and the British Library (www.bl.uk). 2.1. Management Forum Provide a range of, inter alia, IP courses. For information, contact: [email protected]; www.management-forum.co.uk. All courses are in London, UK. Additionally, Management Forum is part of The Forum Group, providing a range of some 2000 courses annually in Germany, Austria and Italy, as well as the UK. 2.2. Intellectual Property International Seminars Seminars primarily cover the Patent Cooperation Treaty, the European Patent Office, and the Eurasian Patent Office. Seminars are held in San Francisco. Information on current seminar programmes is available from Virginia H. Meyer,

An annual programme launched each September, the Master of Laws (LLM) in Intellectual Property is a joint post-graduate program in intellectual property (IP) offered by the WIPO Worldwide Academy, the University of Turin and the International Labour Organisation, International Training Center (ILO-ITC), at the ILO-ITC in Turin, Italy. For further information on the Academy, see http://www. wipo.int/academy/en/. 2.8. Patent Resources Group (PRGÒ) PRGÒ is a major resource for patent professionals to enhance their global knowledge of patent law and attain high levels of professional and financial achievement. PRGÒ courses give attorneys and IP decision makers worldwide the legal and competitive knowledge needed to make calculated legal and business decisions. PRGÒ sets a high standard for advanced patent education and its application to business, providing essential insight into the strategic use of IP to enhance organizational value. For additional information see http://www.patentresources.com or call Patent Resources Group, Charlottesville, VA, +1 434 974 1700. Michael Blackman Editor-in-Chief E-mail address: [email protected]