The document provides information about the ICIC 2012 conference taking place from October 14-17, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. It discusses the topics that will be covered at the conference including patent information retrieval, chemical information, and information technology trends. The conference will include presentations, panels, networking opportunities, and an exhibition with approximately 25 exhibitor stands. It also provides the schedule of events and presentations as well as information on accommodations and social events including a welcome reception and conference dinner.

1. ICIC 2012
14 - 17 OCTOBER . BERLIN
The International Conference on Trends
for Scientific Information Professionals
© W. Gerhartz
www.icic.eu

2. ICIC 2012
14 - 17 OCTOBER . Berlin
ICIC 2012 - The Meeting
ICIC is the International Conference on Trends
for Scientific Information Professionals.
ICIC International Conference for the Information Community
For those in the sci-tech world, sharing best practices, networking and evaluating trends have become matters of considerable
importance, and the annual ICIC Meeting & Exhibition is the significant forum for this, attracting over 200 attendees from
the main sci-tech companies and information, service or software providers.
Started in 1989...
These exciting and highly respected annual conferences, that started in Montreux in 1989 and were subsequently held in
Annecy, Nîmes, Barcelona, Nice and Vienna, have always provided a barometer as to the strengths and frailties of the world
of sci-tech and patent information.
The conference lasts for two and a half days and features approximately 24 formal presentations, panels on topical matters,
all interspersed with short new product information presentations. All sessions are plenary. The conference normally begins
with a reception on the first evening to enable attendees to begin to network with each other, and has a cocktail party on the
second evening. Lunches are taken at the conference venue, and breaks are designed to facilitate networking and interaction.
A focused exhibition of approximately 25 stands is integrated within the conference. Attendance at these meetings is highly
international, with no one nationality predominating.
The 2012 ICIC conference is organised by Dr Haxel Congress and Event Management.
Subject Areas for the 2012 Programme
The traditional focus of the ICIC programmes is subjects of interest to information professionals in a scientific or technical
environment. As in previous years, this year’s programme contains a number of presentations examining aspects of patent
information retrieval, including drug discovery; patent information presents many challenges and is thus an excellent test-bed
when it comes to information technology. The ICIC meeting’s roots in chemical information also ensure that that area features
prominently; chemical information was one of the first fields to attract modern information technologies back at the end of the
nineteenth century and the very beginning of the twentieth.
The 2012 ICIC will take place at the Andel‘s Hotel, Berlin
The Andel’s Hotel Berlin makes it all possible: trade fairs, concerts and balls but also automotive or company presentations
and small informal meetings - no matter if you are expecting 10 or 3,000 people: in one of the biggest meeting and congress
hotels in the German capital, the possibilities are endless!
The 4-star deluxe Andel’s Hotel Berlin is situated near historical Alexanderplatz square in the eastern part of the city Berlin –
the perfect starting position to easily and comfortably visit the sights and attractions.
Address: Landsberger Allee 106, D-10369 Berlin, Germany,
E-Mail: info@andelsberlin.com, Tel.: +49 30 453 053 0, Fax: +49 30 453 053 2099

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Why should you attend
Who should attend the ICIC conference?
The ICIC meeting is of importance for all professionals involved in the information world, be they workers or managers in
information departments, information application developers, or patent specialists. The fact that the conference has always
attracted an enthusiastic audience every year since 1989 testifies to its long-term success as an international focal point for
professionals in the information domain.
Why should you attend?
• A three-day (with workshops) concentration on one clearly defined subject area enables you to improve and hone your skills
and to examine possible new ideas. Attending the presentations, and interacting with the speakers, will update you with the
best practices and technologies at the moment.
• You will be amongst colleagues who confront similar challenges to those you face and you can benefit from each others’
experiences. Interaction with the expert speakers and with specialists in the exhibition will provide you with a fresh source
of facts and ideas. You will network with other professionals from leading international corporations and research centres in
the field of professional information, and information technology.
• Social networking via electronic media such as Facebook, Linked-In and Twitter enables you to interact with large numbers
of people in your subject area. But face-to-face contact such as you will find at the ICIC “family” meeting, including the many
meals and receptions taken together, remains unrivalled when it comes to exploring ideas informally and evaluating the
experiences and views of others.
• The knowledge of best practice for finding, analysing and understanding the contents of information such as that found in
patents or in business news is the principal way to anticipate and understand what your organisation’s competitors are doing
or may be planning to do.
• Increasingly in the modern world, hard work is the key to success. But unless hard work is complemented by superior
skills and professional know-how, hard work alone will not enable companies to survive and thrive. You need to take every
opportunity to enhance your professionalism, and this focused information meeting provides such an opportunity. You can
then take the new knowledge you have acquired back to your colleagues in the office. You will become an increasingly
credible partner for your managers and will be involved in many of their decisions.
© W. Gerhartz

4. ICIC 2012
14 - 17 OCTOBER . Berlin
Sponsors
SureChem InfoChem
is sponsoring the is sponsoring
Conference Dinner the Coffee Breaks
Lighthouse IP GROUP Linguamatics
is sponsoring is sponsoring
the Conference the lunches
Welcome Dinner on Monday and Tuesday
BizInt minesoft
is sponsoring is sponsoring the
the printed reception
Conference Programme
Evolvus Molecular Connections
is sponsoring is sponsoring the
the conference wallets conference buses
Exhibitors

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14 - 17 OCTOBER . Berlin
Exhibition Plan
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INTELLEXIR
LexisNexis
Linguamatics
Lighthouse IP
RightsDirect
ChemAxon
Parthys Reverse
Informatics
Infonortics max.recall
Dotmatics minesoft
Coffee
Springer QWAM
InfoChem Thomson
Reuters
FIZ STELLARIX
Karlsruhe
FIZ Chemie
Europatent
Sagacious
Research
Research
Fairview
Treparel
Dolcera
CAS SureChem
Questel BizInt
Exhibitors

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14 - 17 OCTOBER . Berlin
Programme
Sunday 14 OCTOBER MONday 15 OCTOBER
09.00 09 am
Starts at 09:00
• Welcome
• Mobile Chemistry – The Changing World of Chemical Information -
David A Evans (Elsevier Properties, CH)
• The Many Elements to the Article of the Future - Jason Wilde (Nature, UK)
10.00 10 am
• Smarter Content Delivery - Apps for Chemistry
Anirban Mudi, Jignesh Bhate (Molecular Connections, IN)
• New Product Introductions - Questel / Digital-Science / Minesoft
11.00
10:55 - 11:10 - Exhibition and Networking Break - All Coffee breaks 11 am
sponsored by InfoChem
• The Recent Evolution and the Future Trends of Patent Landscape in China
and Asia - Lulin Gao (East IP, CN)
• Making Sense of China’s Information Explosion: A Review of Information
12.00 Sources and Analysis Techniques that can Help Address the Challenges 12 noon
Robert Stembridge (Thomson Scientific, UK)
• IP5 - Projects, Status and Future Plans - Nelson Das Neves (EPO, DE)
• New Product Introductions - Parthys Reverse Informatics / Linguamatics /
BizInt / QWAM Content Intelligence
13.00 01 pm
13:00 - 14:45 - Lunch, Exhibition and Networking -
Lunch sponsored by Linguamatics
14.00 02 pm
• The Linguistic Freedom and the Pain of Searching - Hans-Christof Wilk
(Henkel, DE)
15.00 03 pm
15:00 - 16:30 • Maximizing Quality and Efficiency of Patent Information in a Divisionalised,
Workshop Global Pharmaceutical Company - Robert Poolman (Novartis, UK)
• Creating Future Interfaces to Library Services - Morten Christoffersen
15:00 - 18:00 Registration
Thomson Reuters
(Novo Nordisk, DK)
• New Product Introduction: InfoChem / LexisNexis / INTELLIXIR
16.00 04 pm
16:30 - 16.45 - Exhibition and Networking Break
16:45 - 17:45
17.00 • New Product Presentation: Dolcera / Sagacious Research 05 pm
Workshop Questel • Chemistry Connect: AstraZeneca’s cheminformatics platform for
large-scale integration of structure and bioactivity data - Sorel Muresan
(AstraZeneca, SE)
• ChEMBL - A Large-scale Bioactivity and Drug Discovery Resource
18.00 John P. Overington (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK) 06 pm
18:00 - 19:00
Workshop minesoft
19.00 07 pm
19:15 - 19:30
Welcome Reception -
sponsored by minesoft
19:30 - 22:00
20.00 08 pm
Welcome Dinner - sponsored
by Lighthouse IP Group

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Programme
TUESday 16 OCTOBER Wednesday 17 OCTOBER
09.00 09 am
Starts at 09:00 Starts at 09:00
• A chemical company’s view and expectations on • The IBM Patent Data Donation to NIH, and its
Markush structure searching - Peter Geyer (BASF, DE) Integration in the NCI/CADD Database and Web
• The Future Role of Online Hosts - Will Values of Today Services - Marc Nicklaus (NIH, USA)
be Valued Tomorrow? - Rainer Stuike-Prill (FIZ Karlsruhe, DE) • Opening Patent Chemistry to the Scientific Community
10.00 10 am
• New Product Introductions: CAS / ThomsonReuters / Nicko Goncharoff (SureChem, UK)
Lighthouse IP • A View of Recent Computer Aided Synthesis
Developments - Mike Hutchings, Heinz Saller, Hans Kraut,
10:20 - 10:35 - Exhibition and Networking Break Peter Loew (InfoChem, DE)
• The 2012 ICIC Host Panel - Online Hosts in 2012 - 10:30 - 11:00 - Exhibition and Networking Break
11.00 11 am
A Dying Breed or the Future of Access to Scholarly
Information - Randall Marcinko (MEI, USA) • Enhancing the User Experience for Wiley Chemistry
• New Product Introductions: dotmatics / Treparel / Content - Reinhard Neudert (Wiley, DE)
EUROPATENT / Stellarix / Springer • Social Design, Cloud Computing, Crowd Sourcing and
the Patent Information Industry - Arne Krüger (MTC, DE)
12.00 12 noon
2012 Meeting ends at approximately 12:30
12:30 - 14:30 - Lunch, Exhibition and Networking -
Lunch sponsored by Linguamatics
13.00 01 pm
• Boosting the Accuracy of Patent Valuation
Methodologies - Giuditta De Prato, Daniel Nepelski
14.00 (European Commission, ES) 02 pm
• Why Evaluating Patents And How? Economic Aspects
of Patent Portfolios and Economic Ways of Rating
them - Dierk-Oliver Kiehne (IPR-Systems, DE)
• A Transparent and Secure Market for Patents: Why
15.00 and How? - Patrick Terroir (CDC Intellectual Property, FR) 03 pm
• New Product Introductions - FIZ Karlsruhe / STN /
Fairview / Max.recall / ChemAxon / RightsDirect
16.00 04 pm
16:30 - 16:45 - Exhibition and Networking Break
17.00 • Software Assisted Mental Representations of 05 pm
Chemistry Information Retrieval Tasks - Stefan
Härtinger (EPO, DE)
• Text Mining Patents at Scale: Challenges and
Successes - David Milward (Linguamatics, UK)
18.00 06 pm
19.00 07 pm
19:00 Buses leave for Conference Dinner
19:30 Conference Dinner - sponsored by
SureChem
20.00 08 pm

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14 - 17 OCTOBER . Berlin
Networking Programme
All registered ICIC participants are invited to join our Berlin Networking Programme.
Welcome Reception
Sunday, 14 October
sponsored by minesoft
Conference Welcome Dinner
Sunday, 14 October
sponsored by Sponsor Lighthouse IP Group
Conference lunches
Monday and Tuesday
sponsored by Linguamatics
Conference Dinner
Tuesday 16 October
sponsored by SureChem
Coffee Breaks
All Coffee Breaks (during the conference)
sponsored by Infochem
ICIC 2013
13 - 16 October
Wien
©WienTourismus/Peter Rigaud

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