Selective diary of conferences, exhibitions, and courses

Selective diary of conferences, exhibitions, and courses

World Patent Information 27 (2005) 356–357 www.elsevier.com/locate/worpatin Conference report Selective diary of conferences, exhibitions, and cours...

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World Patent Information 27 (2005) 356–357 www.elsevier.com/locate/worpatin

Conference report

Selective diary of conferences, exhibitions, and courses Editor’s note: 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.

2006 IPI-ConfEx 2006 6–8 March 2006 Athenaeum InterContinental, Athens, Greece 231st American Chemical Society National Meeting 26–30 March 2006 Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, USA

1. Selective diary of conferences and exhibitions 2005 EPO Patent Information Conference (EPIC2005) and Patinnova Conference 8–10 November 2005 Budapest, Hungary epolineÒ Annual Conference 23–24 November 2005 Athens, Greece Fashion and Intellectual Property (WIPO, ItalyÕs Ministry of Productive Activities and the Italian Institute for Industrial Promotion) 23–24 November 2005 Caserta, Italy

EPO Seminar on Search and Documentation Working Methods March/April 2006 (Details awaited) The Hague, The Netherlands 128th International Trademark Association Annual Meeting (INTA) 6–10 May 2006 Toronto, Canada PIUG Conference 20–25 May 2006 Hyatt Regency, Minneapolis, MN, USA FICPI World Congress 22–26 May 2006 Paris, France

Far East Meets West: Forum on patent information from Japan and the Far East (EPO) 24–25 November Vienna, Austria

PATLIB Conference 22–24 May 2006 Hotel Diplomat, Prague, Czech Republic

Online Information 2005 and Content Management 2005 29 November–1 December 2005 Olympia, London

25th European Community Trademarks Association Annual Conference (ECTA) 7–10 June 2006 Warsaw, Poland

USPTO Day (IPO Association) 5 December 2005 Washington, DC, USA

232nd American Chemical Society National Meeting 10–14 September 2006 San Francisco Convention Center

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Conference report / World Patent Information 27 (2005) 356–357

40th World Intellectual Property Congress (AIPPI) 8–12 October 2006 Gothenburg, Sweden

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as PIUG (www.piug.org) and the British Library (www.bl.uk/services/information/patents). 2.1. IBC

EPO Patent Information Conference (EPIC2006) October/November 2006 (Further details awaited) epolineÒ Annual Conference November 2006 (Further details awaited) 2007 IPI-ConfEx Early March 2007 Southern Europe 233rd American Chemical Society National Meeting 25–29 March 2007 McCormick Place, Chicago 129th International Trademark Association Annual Meeting (INTA) 28 April–2 May 2007 Illinois, USA PIUG Conference May 2007 (Further details awaited) 234th American Chemical Society National Meeting 19–23 August 2007 Hynes Convention Center, Boston EPO Patent Information Conference (EPIC2007) October/November 2007 (Further details awaited) epolineÒ Annual Conference November 2007 (Further details awaited) 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

Provide a range of, inter alia, IP and IT courses. For information, contact: [email protected]; www.ibcitlaw.com. 2.2. Management forum Provide a range of, inter alia, IP courses. For information, contact: [email protected]. 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. 2.3. 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, Intellectual Property International, of Sausalito, CA, USA, at +1 415 289 7471, or by email at [email protected]. 2.4. TFPL Ltd: training courses 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. 2.5. Queen Mary intellectual property research institute 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. Michael Blackman 45 Kenwood Drive Beckenham Kent BR3 6QY United Kingdom Tel./fax: +44 208 658 0637 E-mail address: [email protected]