[PIUG List] PIUG 2008 Boston Biotech Meeting---Preliminary Program

PIUG 2008 Boston Biotechnology Meeting
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Hosted by Genzyme
Cambridge, MA.

Preliminary Program


8:00-8:30am Breakfast and Registration



Session I: Searchers in the Field


8:30-9:00am

"Preamble to Searching", Elyse Turner, Merck & Co., Inc.

9:00-9:35am

Bernard Piret, European Patent Office (EPO)

9:35-10:00am

Paula Sheppard, Scientific and Technical Information Center (STIC), United =
States Patent and Trademark Office (USPT0)

10:00-10:25am

Joan Switzer, Merck & Co. Inc.


10:25-10:55am Break


10:55-11:20am

"Use of Patent Classification and Manual Codes to Assist With Retrieval of =
Antibody Patents: Patents and Sequences Related to Therapeutic Antibodies D=
irected Against Multiple Myeloma Antigens", Alison Taylor, Threshold Inform=
ation, Inc

11:20-11:45am

"Searching Biotech Devices: The Proficient Trapping of Boojums", Kristine H=
. Atkinson, Boston Scientific Corporation

11:45-12:10am

"Similarity searching for antibody sequences", Alice K. Goshorn, Amgen



12:10-1:20pm Lunch



Session II: Details on Databases and Strategies for Searching


1:20-1:45pm

Colin Williams, Thomson Scientific

1:45-2:10pm

"Where is My Sequence?: Feature/Notes Table, Uncommon Amino Acids, and Wil=
dcards", Ken Hoppe, ScienceIP

2:10-2:35pm

"Ensuring a thorough sequence patent search", Dr. Kamalakar Gulukota, Genom=
eQuest Inc.

2:35-3:00pm

James A. Coburn, Harbor Consulting IP Services, Inc.


3:00-3:30pm Break


3:30-3:55pm

"The SECOND most obvious places to search sequences", Don Walter, Thomson S=
cientific

3:55-4:20pm

"Structure searching for small sequences in the CAS REGISTRYSM file", Lora =
Burgess, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)

4:20-4:45pm

"Synergies and surprises - USGENE and DGENE multifile patent sequence searc=
hing on STN", Rob Austin, FIZ Karlsruhe Inc.

4:45-5:00pm

"Putting It All Together", Elyse Turner, Merck & Co., Inc.




PIUG 2008 Boston Biotech Meeting Planning Committee


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