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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. 1. Selective diary of conferences and exhibitions 2007 234th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition 19–23 August 2007 Hynes Convention Center, Boston, USA EAPIC 2007 September 2007 Singapore
Online Services Annual Conference (EPO) 13–14 November 2007 Como, Italy Online Information and Content Management in Europe Conference and Exhibition 4–6 December 2007 Olympia, London, UK
235th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition Date: 6–10 April 2008 New Orleans, LA, USA
WIPO Colloqium ‘‘Patents and Transfer of Technology’’, 14 September 2007 Geneva, Switzerland www.wipo.int/patent/colloquia/en. Free, but need to register on
Information
PIUG Northeast Workshop 8 October 2007 New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
doi:10.1016/j.wpi.2007.04.011
AIPLA Annual Meeting 18–20 October 2007 Washington DC, USA
2008
Search Matters 2007 (EPO), 10–11 September 2007, The Hague, The Netherlands
International Conference (IEEE) 7–11 October 2007 Merrillville, IN, USA
EPO Patent Information Conference 16–18 October 2007 Riga, Latvia
Society
130th International Trademark Association Annual Meeting (INTA) Date: 17–21 May 2008 Berlin, Germany 27th European Community Trademarks Association Annual Conference (ECTA) 18–21 June 2008 Killarney, Ireland 236th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition 17–22 August 2008 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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41st World Intellectual Property Congress (AIPPI) 6–11 September 2008 Boston, USA
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tional, of Sausalito, CA, USA, at +1 415 289 7471, or by email at
[email protected]. 2.5. TFPL Ltd.: training courses
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/services/information/patents). 2.1. IBC Provide a range of, inter alia, IP and IT courses. For information, contact:
[email protected]; www.ibc-itlaw. 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. European patent office training The European Patent Office provides real classroom courses such as a 4-day introductory course on patent information as well as free-of-charge e-learning occasions. All details are available online at http://patentinfo.european-patent-office.org/learning/ where also new additions to the programme are posted. [Supplied by Roland Feina¨ugle, EPO]. 2.4. 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 Interna-
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. 2.6. 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. 2.7. Landon IP School of Intellectual Property ResearchTM (SIPR) Landon IP is pleased to announce the 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. The curriculum is built on Landon IP’s expertise as one of the industry’s leading IP search firms. For further information: Rob Cunningham at +1 703-486-1150 or at
[email protected]. 2.8. University College London and Kings College, London, UK Ten day intensive course on Chinese Intellectual Property Law and Practice. 17–28 September 2007. £3950 +VAT. Enquiries to
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