Anthony Trippe - Chair
Denise Fobare-Deponio - Vice-Chair
Jim Brown - Secretary
Ken Koubek - Treasurer
Cynthia Barcelon Yang - Immediate Past Chair
Heidi Stone - Director at Large
Diane Wian - Director at Large

 
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PIUG

The International Society for Patent Information

The Patent Information Users Group, Inc. (PIUG) – The International Society for Patent Information 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.

PIUG has over 700 active members representing 27 countries including the United States. The largest concentration of members is from the USA, Europe and Japan. 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 20 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 an active Discussion Forum that is featured on the PIUG wiki, a global collaborative tool with with over 1400 subscribers worldwide and produce a newsletter twice a year. In addition, we have presence in professional and social networking channels, such as LinkedIn and Twitter. The PIUG newsletter 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.

News

July 20, 2010

PIUG 2011 Biotechnology Meeting in South San Francisco, CA on February 9, 2011 - 31 August 2010
Save the date for the PIUG 2011 Biotechnology Meeting to be held for the first time on the West Coast! Join us on February 9, 2011 at the Genentech Campus in South San Francisco, California, the "Birthplace of Biotechnology." Watch this page and the PIUG Wiki and the PIUG Discussion Forum (PIUG-DF) for regularly updated information.

PIUG 2010 Northeast Conference in New Brunswick, NJ, on October 11-15, 2010 - 27 July 2010
Conference details including preliminary program, registration, travel information and sponsorships are available on the PIUG website Northeast Conference page. Also watch the PIUG Wiki and PIUG Discussion Forum (PIUG-DF) for regularly updated information.

PIUG 2011 Annual Conference in Cincinnati on May 21-26, 2011 – Save the Date - 20 July 2010
The conference theme is "Best Practices Beyond Free-text: The Value of Indexing and Classification when Searching and Analyzing Patents." Watch the PIUG Discussion Forum (PIUG-DF) and the PIUG website for details and the call for papers. We welcome all who wish to participate or volunteer to help make the 2011 conference a success.

PIUG 2010 Annual Conference in Baltimore on May 1-6, 2010 – Presentations Available - 10 May 2010
The PIUG 2010 Annual Conference concluded and was a big success. Conference presentations are available in the members-only section of the PIUG wiki.

Join the PIUG Discussion Forum (PIUG-DF) - 1 February 2010
The PIUG Discussion Forum (PIUG-DF) is available to all the global patent information community. It is featured on the PIUG wiki, a global collaboration and communication medium. See the Wiki Initial Signup Quick Reference Guide for help and "watch" the PIUG Space and PIUG-DF as explained in the 4.5-minute micro-tutorial available on the Wiki Training Webinars web page.