[PIUG List] Automating Patent Analysis Workshop at PIUG Annual Meeting

Dear friends and colleagues,

If you are attending the PIUG Annual Meeting in May, please consider being
part of the following workshop. I look forward to greeting each of you in
Crystal City.

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Regards,
Barry Brager
Perception Partners(R)
www.perceptionpartners.com


AUTOMATING PATENT ANALYSIS FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Patent information analysis is a critical component of decision-making in
technology investment, business development and intellectual property
enforcement. However, many of the key decision-makers central to these
issues lack the skills to properly review the patent literature. Thank
goodness for patent searchers and analysts – they often bring the experti=
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required to assess legal risk and technology value in a business context.
Still, challenges remain for all parties related to the scale of the problem
– how can more data from more sources be reviewed faster for deeper
insights?

Enter automated patent analysis. From simple charting tools to categorizers
and valuation algorithms, automation of patent analytics is commanding
attention from those who drive open innovation, mergers & acquisitions, and
portfolio monetization. In this workshop, participants will gain deep
insight into the tools and methods that impress and engage executive
management – because they get the job done at lower risk and higher value.

Workshop subject matter will focus on extracting business insights related
to patents, and cover the automation of a range of techniques including:

* Charting, graphing and visualizing trends
* Analyzing patent legal, technical and business quality
* Identifying technology and business white spaces
* Clustering and classifying documents
* Calculating technology relevance and similarity
* Depicting organizational relationships
* Determining breadth of claims

The tools discussed will include a broad range of products, including:

* Paid and free databases, mashups and deep web content
* Mindjet MindManager(R)
* Vantage Point/Thomson Data Analyzer(R)
* Microsoft Excel(R)
* PatentCafe(R)
* SparkIP(R)
* And more!

Format will include lecture, demonstration and interactive discussion. By
the end of the workshop, takeaways will include new approaches to:

* Assessing the risks and opportunities related to open innovation
activities
* Estimating the strategic and financial IP value of acquisitions
* Quantifying patent monetization options such as license, sale or
litigation

LOGISTICS

Date: Saturday, May 17, 2008

Time: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Hyatt Regency Crystal City
Room: Jefferson
Registration Cost: $495.00

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INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHY

Barry Brager is the founder and Managing Partner of Perception Partners,
www.perceptionpartners.com a global intellectual property research,
transactions and consulting firm. Perception Partners engages more than 200
business, technical and legal experts to quantify critical matters of risk
and value in technology investment, business development, and IP enforcement
decisions.

Perception Partners specializes in innovation analytics, ensuring that
valuation decisions are based on facts rather than hunches. The firm
"connects the dots" across disparate data sources to rapidly develop
actionable recommendations that lead to higher value, lower risk
transactions. Tools developed and optimized by Barry and his team have been
used to analyze more than 250,000 patents worldwide and which have supported
decisions related to more than $1 billion in financial transactions.

Barry is active in the IP industry as the chair of the Small Business
Committee of the Intellectual Property Owners Association and will co-chair
of the Licensing Executives Society Annual Meeting in 2008. He is also a
member of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Patent Information Users
Group. In these groups and others, Barry is a frequent speaker on patent
analytics and innovation strategy.

Barry graduated in 1992 from Temple University, and in 2003 completed Emory
University's top 10 globally-ranked Executive MBA program, graduating first
in his class.

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