Patent and Trademark Depository Library Association

Please review and submit comments on the 2008 draft of the PTDLA Strategic Plan . Vision and mission statements were accepted at the 2008 PTDLA Business Meeting.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Invited Speaker: 9 am -11 am
Title: Patent information from the EPO - latest developments in policy, products and practice
Speaker: David Dickinson, EPO

Lunch & Business meeting 11:30 - 1 pm
Attend the business meeting and enjoy the free pizza lunch sponsored by PTDLA

PTDLA Panel Presentations 2:30 pm - 4 pm

Title: Marketing & Strategizing Outreach for Patent & Trademark Presentations
Speakers: Joanne Dugan, Jim Miller, and Bob Kackley
Abstract: One of the biggest challenges facing PTLDA members is providing Patent & Trademark assistance for those beyond our normal reference arenas. Baltimore PTDL Rep. Joanne Dugan, and Jim Miller and Bob Kackley of College Park will briefly share their experiences, collaboration, and ideas on marketing future presentations to those in need of our services. Our first joint collaboration was on Valentine’s Day 2008 at Northrop-Grumman’s BWI Airport location. We demonstrated the universal web availability of patent & trademark information. Many questions dealt with legal issues, and Joanne’s law expertise was crucial. About 40 employees attended, including eleven from around the country via online hookup. Previous sessions included Prince George’s County Memorial Library librarians (2003) and their patrons (2008); Fairfax County VA Librarians (2004); 19 Law Librarians at a DC Special Libraries Association session hosted by a DC law firm (2007); and a Frederick County MD Public Library business venture session for county residents (2008); among others. Now, motivated by our successes, we are ready to aggressively collaborate in marketing our services to meet this evidently widespread need for patent and trademark knowledge. We plan to market our seminars to more public libraries, business ventures and companies in other Maryland counties, and even to “magnet” public high schools in MD.

Title: Zotero & Patents
Speaker: Andrew Wohrley

PATLIB 2007
SEVILLE SPAIN
Report by Virginia Baldwin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
http://www.epo.org/about-us/events/archive/2007/PATLIB2007.html
May 14-16, 2007
Attending the PATLIB conference of patent and trademark librarians from all over Europe was an amazing experience. The Spanish Patent Office was the host of PATLIB2007, in Seville, in the province of Andalusia in southern Spain. It was the first time I had traveled abroad alone, and the first time attending a conference of librarians from many foreign nations. Not everyone spoke English though probably the majority did. The conference is annual, organized by the European Patent Office (EPO) in Vienna, and those who arranged my trip mostly spoke English and German. All of the presentation slides were in English and the speakers spoke in a variety of European languages. Each presentation was translated into English, French, German, and Spanish. It was amazing just to watch the translators as they sat in booths and clued us in on what was being said through our earpieces. I walked to the Real Alcazar Palace for the conference tour and cocktail party at the end of the first day with a couple from Italy who did not speak English and were able to communicate to me that they only spoke Italian. Or at least that is what I understood. Maybe Italian needs to be one of the conference languages. Next year should be another translator recruitment feat as the conference will be held, we learned in a surprise announcement kept secret until the very end of the conference, in Warsaw, Poland. We emerged from the conference auditorium to be greeted by Polish promoters with tables of brochures for Warsaw.

Promoting Patent and Trademark Services

(Program held on Saturday, June 23, 2007, 10:30 a.m. - 12 noon Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C.):

Moderator: Leena Lalwani, University of Michigan

Speakers: Alexis Carrasquel, John Schlipp, Leena Lalwani, Marian Armour-Gemmen, Bill Schilling, Tom Turner

Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program: An Overview
Speaker: Tom Turner, Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program

Community Partners Collaborate With Patent & Trademark Depository Libraries (PTDLs)
Speaker: John Schlipp, Northern Kentucky University

Promoting Patent and Trademark Services: Through Resource Sharing
Speaker:Bill Schilling, New York State Library

Sowing the Seeds of Innovation: A University Library Perspective
Speaker: Marian Armour-Gemmen, West Virginia University

Promoting Patent Collections Through Partnerships
Speaker: Alexis Carrasquel, Louisiana State University

Promoting Library Services / Special Events: A VERY Select
Bibliography of Sources
Author: Jan Comfort, Clemson University

On December 14, 2006 the Patent and Trademark Depository Library Association recognized and honored Mr. James A. Arshem with a Lifetime PTDLA Membership Award for his valuable years of leadership and commitment to making patent and trademark information available to the public, and for the many contributions that he has made to both the Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program and United States Patent and Trademark Office.