PIUG 2022 Virtual - Information & Awards

Patent Information Users Group, Inc.

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Message from the Chair

Thank you to Sponsors 3 About Patent Information Users Group (PIUG) 4 PIUG Board of Directors 5 PIUG Volunteers 5 Milestones 6 Service Awards 6 PIU BACKGROUND & INFORMATION

Brian Stockdale Memorial Award 7 Stu Kaback Business Impact Award 8

An International Conference for Patent Information Professionals  Virtual Meeting 2022 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Meeting Book prepared by BizInt Solutions Inc., a proud sponsor of the 2022 PIUG Annual Conference

2022 Annual Conference  In-Person Meeting

Message from the Chair

Please make it a point to visit all the sponsors and exhibitors during the connecting and exhibit time, and plan to attend the sponsored workshops to learn about the products and services that are available to enhance and facilitate your work. The PIUG Board is thrilled that you are able to join us and your fellow patent information professionals for a terrific technical program, and to get to know and exchange experience and expertise with your colleagues from around the globe. I hope you take advantage of the opportunities to attend the workshops, to spend time with our sponsors, to network and to make a new friend or two! So glad you could join us!

While we continue to work through the COVID-19 pandemic, after two years of strictly virtual annual conferences, we finally find ourselves back together, in-person, at The Westin, Alexandria and I am excited to be here with all of you! Welcome to the PIUG 2022 Annual Conference! Our 2022 conference speakers have created presentations that all attendees can learn from and apply to their daily work. I would like to thank each and every one of them for their contribution to our conference. I would also like to thank this year’s program committee for their contributions to putting together such a great program: Lucy Antunes, Brad Buehler, Dominic DeMarco, Jane List, KimMiller, Yateen Pargaonkar, and Martha Yates. The success of PIUG’s conferences, of PIUG itself, would be unachievable without the dedication and persistence of our many volunteers. I would like to thank this years planning committee for their contributions to the putting together such a great conference: MalcolmHallam, Ron Kaminecki, KimMiller, Victoria Smith, Jane Thompson, and Martha Yates. Sincere appreciation and thanks go to our Administrative Coordinator, Ken Koubek. Without his dedication and knowledge of PIUG processes and procedures, this conference would not be possible. In addition to his administrative activities, he contributes to the Socio conference platform, the PIUG conference webpages, and works with all of our sponsors. Finally, tremendous appreciation goes to our sponsors and exhibitors, without whose generous and ongoing support our PIUG conferences could not take place. Our sponsors and exhibitors are full partners in PIUG’s efforts to flourish and fulfill our mission to “support, assist, improve, and enhance the success of patent information professionals….” This Conference, where delegates, speakers, and sponsors join together, represents our mission in action. Our Gold sponsors for the PIUG 2022 Annual Conference include: CAS, Clarivate, and IFI Claims. Our Silver sponsors include: Aptean GenomeQuest, BizInt, and PatSnap. Our Bronze sponsors include IPRally, Lexis Nexis, and Questel. This year’s exhibitors include: Averbis and Minesoft.

Warm Regards,

Shelley Pavlek, PIUG Chair 2020-2022

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Thank you to Sponsors

gratefully acknowledges the generous support provided by our sponsors. The conference would not exist without their support!

Gold Sponsors CAS Clarivate IFI CLAIMS Patent Services Silver Sponsors Aptean GenomeQuest BizInt Solutions, Inc. PatSnap Bronze Sponsors IPRally LexisNexis Intellectual Property Questel

Exhibitors Averbis Minesoft

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ABOUT PATENT INFORMATION USERS GROUP (PIUG) THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PATENT INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS

The Patent Information Users Group, Inc. (PIUG) is a not-for-profit organization for individuals having a professional, scientific or technical interest in patent information. The mission of PIUG is to support, assist, improve and enhance the success of patent information professionals through leadership, education, communication, advocacy and networking. Through this international forum and discussion, we also promote and improve the retrieval, analysis and dissemination of patent information. The PIUG membership brochure offers concise information about PIUG and its many benefits for the patent information community. PIUG has over 500 active members representing 24 countries including the United States. The largest concentration of members is from the USA, Europe and India. PIUG members are patent attorneys, patent agents, licensing professionals, patent information researchers, patent information vendors, and patent information and documentation experts from the U.S. and abroad. We have nearly 300 patent information professionals who do patent searching for corporations, over 100 patent information consultants, over 80 patent information professionals who do patent searching for law firms, and about 12 searchers based in academic institutions. We are employed in performing patentability, freedom-to-practice, and validity patent searches for Fortune 500 / multinational companies, leading universities and major IP law firms. In recent years, PIUG members have also engaged in patent information analysis as a strategic innovation tool. PIUG has a Discussion Forum that is featured on the PIUG wiki which is for archival purposes as well as a Public Discussion Forum on the website which is available for new posts, a global collaborative tool with over 1800 subscribers worldwide. In addition, we have presence in professional and social networking channels, such as LinkedIn and Twitter. The PIUG wiki currently contains members’ articles, salary survey results, search tips, meeting trip reports, and information on patent database vendor and producer developments. Get to know us and meet the PIUG Officers.

BRIEF HISTORY

The Patent Information Users Group (PIUG) was established in 1988. The objective of the group was to create a forum to discuss issues and concerns relevant to the patent searcher community. PIUG promotes the importance of intellectual property, especially patent publications, and most specifically, the computerized patent databases. Since 1988, PIUG has worked with intellectual property database producers and vendors to maintain and to improve the quality of their product from the customer, or user, perspective. Please see the PIUG History page for much more information about PIUG.

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PIUG BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Chair, 2020-2022:

Shelley Pavlek, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Vice Chair, 2020-2022:

Kim Miller, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research

Immediate Past Chair, 2020-2022: Martha Yates, Bayer

Secretary, 2020-2022:

Leah Sandvoss, Pfizer

Treasurer, 2020-2022:

Malcolm Hallam, ExxonMobil

Director-at-Large, 2018–2022:

Ron Kaminecki

Director-at-Large, 2020–2024:

Victoria Smith, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research

2022 PLANNING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEES Thank You PIUG VOLUNTEERS

Program Co-Chairs

Greg Roland and Shelley Pavlek

Members

Brad Buehler, Dominic DeMarco, Jane List, KimMiller, Lucy Antunes, Yateen Pargaonkar

Planning Co-Chairs

Martha Yates and Ken Koubek

Planning Members

Malcolm Hallam, Ron Kaminecki, KimMiller, Victoria Smith, Jane Thompson, Martha Yates

Stu Kaback Business Impact Award Committee

KimMiller (Chair), Malcolm Hallam, Tony Trippe, Martha Yates

Brian Stockdale Award Committee

Tony Trippe (Chair), Andrea Davis, Dominic DeMarco, Ken Koubek

Evaluations

Shelley Pavlek

Gifts

Ken Koubek

Meeting Book

Diane Webb

Sponsorship & Exhibits

Jane Thompson (Chair) & Ken Koubek

Webpages

Ken Koubek

Workshops

Martha Yates

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MILESTONES

• PIUG born; organizational meeting following IFI meeting • First discussion list on Dialmail

1988

• 30th Anniversary of PIUG • Implemented volunteer recognition program

2018

2019 2020

• First paid webinar educational series

• First virtual annual conference

• First Virtual Combined Annual & Biotech Conference • Re-energized Education & Training Committee • Re-energized Electronic Communications Committee • New Leadership for the Partnerships & Patent Offices Committee

2021

• Implemented a Volunteer Recruitment Committee • Implemented Community Engagement Hours

• Implemented an Automated Marketing Effort via Higher Logic • Consistent use of Social Media Outlets, LinkedIn, Twitter & Instagram

SERVICE AWARDS

Christopher S. Baldwin

In recognition of Chris’s service to PIUG as a behind-the scenes support of operational activities since 2017. In recognition of Cynthia’s contributions to the PIUG Partnerships and Patent Offices Committee In recognition of Yun Yun’s many contributions to PIUG Conferences.

2019

Cynthia Gallagher

2019

Yun Yun Yang Tony Trippe

2019 2020 2020 2020 2021

In recognition for Tony’s many contributions to PIUG. In recognition for Kim’s many contributions to PIUG.

KimMiller

Leah Sandvoss

In recognition for Leah’s many contributions to PIUG Biotech Conferences. In recognition of Barbara’s contributions to the Member Relations Committee, and her assistance with advertising and promoting PIUG events and conferences In recognition of Yateen’s contributions to the Northeast & Annual Conference Program Committees, and his willingness to contribute presentations to support the conferences In recognition of Jane’s contributions to the Annual Conference Planning Committee and the Sponsorship Committee

Barbara Hampton

Yateen Pargaonkar

2021

Jane Thompson

2021

PIUG Service Award winners, 1998-present

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BRIAN STOCKDALE MEMORIAL AWARD The annual Brian Stockdale Memorial Award was first presented in 2002 to provide support to new members to attend an Annual Conference. The award was established in honor of the late Brian Stockdale with initial funding by Technology and Patent Research International and Thomson Scientific (now Thomson Reuters). Anyone new to the patent information profession, having less than 3 years total experience as a patent information professional or currently enrolled in a college or university with a demonstrated interest in pursuing a career in patents, may submit an essay detailing his or her experience and interest in patent information and need for support to attend the Annual Conference. The award consists of up to $2000 to cover travel and expenses plus registration in the conference, provided by PIUG. In addition, sponsors of fee-based workshops at the conferences may offer free registration as part of the award package. This award is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Brian Stockdale who travelled extensively throughout the world imparting his knowledge of patent searching. Brian’s career encompassed positions with Derwent, SmithKline Beecham, and Technology and Patent Research International. As Brian was so well known internationally and trained many patent information professionals, his work was highly regarded. Brian always relished each new search as a challenge and loved working with the people in this industry. Brian is dearly remembered by his friends and colleagues most of all for his dry wit, keen intellect, and ease of meeting people and socializing wherever he went. As one of the world’s most talented patent information search professionals, he is sorely missed. This is our tribute to his personal dedication in training colleagues, particularly those new to the field of chemical patent searching.

Recipient

Affiliation

Year 2019 2020

Rachel Knapp Chandrasekaran Vijayalakshmi

University of Maine (now at University of Colorado, Boulder) University College of Engineering, Kancheepuram

Mohammed Abdul Fasi Máté András Kondor

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

2020

Uppdragshuset Sverige AB 2020 Guruprasad G. Posugade Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), for Research & Development of Information Products (URDIP) 2020 Hida Patwe Researchwire Knowledge Solutions 2021 Sparsh Gupta GreyB Services 2021 Haya Patwe Researchwire Knowledge Solutions 2021

Brian Stockdale Memorial Award winners, 2002-present

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STU KABACK BUSINESS IMPACT AWARD As the PIUG’s mission is to “support, assist, improve and enhance the success of patent information professionals,” it follows that one of the most important functions the PIUG should serve is to highlight the importance of patent information professionals to their respective organizations and to take a more active role in promoting and encouraging the growth of our profession. In order to promote the profession and its practitioners, The Stu Kaback Business Impact Award has been established by the PIUG, Inc. in Honorable Memory of Dr. Stuart Kaback for his many outstanding accomplishments during his stellar 42

year career at ExxonMobil. As an internationally recognized expert in patent information, a multi-award winner and a prolific writer who inspired an entire generation of patent information professionals, Stu was a deeply respected and greatly loved “force of nature.” Stu’s unparalleled technical expertise in patent information and a diverse range of chemical and petroleum related technologies provided invaluable support to both R&D initiatives and in the protection of ExxonMobil’s intellectual property assets. Stu’s accomplishments demonstrate how a patent information professional can be critical to the success of a business. The purpose of the Stu Kaback Business Impact Award is to recognize the achievements of an individual or a team of individuals who, in performing as patent information professionals, have made a distinct impact on an organization. The PIUG sponsored award consists of a cash award, a commemorative figurine and gratis registration at the PIUG Annual Conference.

Recipient

Affiliation

Year 2018 2020 2021 2021 2021 2021 2021 2021 2021 2021

Amy De Coster and Janet Larsen

Kimberly-Clark

Martha Yates Philippe Ayala

Bayer

CAS CAS CAS CAS CAS CAS CAS CAS

Nicholas Cockroft

Yi Deng

Rodney Fulford Mark Grabau Dmitri Polshakov Donald Swartwout

Jeffrey Wilson

Stu Kaback Business Impact Award winners, 2013-present

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