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Programme contents as of this date To view a PDF of a presentation, please click on the appropriate   Monday 20 October 2008   Day One Opening Keynote Carl Horton Chief IP Counsel, GE IP Strategy and  Challenges for Patent Protection  in the New World Economic Context Stephen Leicht Collexis, South Carolina, USA Web 2.0 and the Future of Competitive Intelligence - Text Analytics, Portfolio Analysis, and the Real-Time Value of Digitised Content Günter Stiegler BASF, Germany Inroads into the Information Jungle – Intelligent R&D Information Systems Francisco Webber Matrixware, Austria Cultivating the Corpus and Growing the Tools – Systemic Strategies for Facing Reality in Professional Information Retrieval Peter Vanderheyden LexisNexis, Ohio, USA Latent Semantic Searching vs Boolean Maik Annies Syngenta, Switzerland Chemical Non-Patent Literature Searching in E-journals and on the Internet Ann Perry Unilever, UK Getting the Full Picture: Identifying Partners for Open Innovation by Combining Information Sources via Mining and Visualisation Tools Kay H. Melvin US Patent & Trademark Office, USA The Changing World of Search and Information Access at the USPTO John Bambridge European Patent Office, The Netherlands Technology Development, Automation and Innovation at the European Patent Office   Tuesday 21 October 2008   Bruno van Pottelsberghe Université Libre de Bruxelles, ECARES, Bruegel -- Solvay SA Chair of Technological Innovation From Gutenberg to Blackberry : On the Economic Role of Quality in Patent Systems Martin Griffies Ariadne Genomics, USA Using Automated Corpus Visualisation and Summarisation to Improve Literature and Reference Comprehension Luca Toldo and Caroline Kant-Mareda* Merck KGaA, Germany and *Merck Serono International, S.A, Switzerland Applying Text-Mining to Support Drug Discovery: A Pharma Case Study Anton Heijs Treparel Information Solutions, The Netherlands Applications of Text Mining and Advanced Visualisation Techniques Christopher Southan EMBL, UK Complementarity Between Public and Commercial Databases of Bioactive Compounds: Extending the Linkage Between Chemistry and Biology [article] Anton Fliri Pfizer, USA Development of Technology for Transforming Analysis of Patent Information Steven Hajkowski Thomson Reuters, UK Comparing and Combining Searches Obtained from First-Level and Value-Add Patent Data Irene Schellner European Patent Office, Austria Patent Information from East Asia - Advantages of Searching in Original Language Databases   Wednesday 22 October 2008   William Town Molecular Connections, India XTractor - A System for Regular Pubmed Abstracts Alerts along with Manually Annotated Sentences Peter Nissen JBoye, Denmark Emerging issues with corporate intranets: options, opportunities and current issues Jane List The Technology Partnership plc, UK An A to Z of Patent Citation Searching Simon Gittins Vivisimo, UK Finding Meaningful Competitive Intelligence through Enterprise Search Erik Nemeth Getty Research Institute, California, USA The Future of Searching for Scholarly Literature: Discipline-specific Research Databases in Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web  Richard Kidd Royal Society of Chemistry, UK Prospecting for Chemistry in Publishing René Deplanque FIZ CHEMIE Berlin, Germany Full Text Searches in E-books. Crossing the Borders of Publishing Houses Sasha Gurke Knovel, New York, USA Usage Analysis with COUNTER: Pros and Cons of the Code of Practice for Electronic Non-Periodicals The 2009 ICIC meeting will take place in Sitges (Barcelona). Dates are 18-21 October 2009 View Programme Committee and Strategic Advisory Board members To record your interest and to be on our email update list for this and future meetings   your interest