AIDB Newsletter No. 8

The preliminary programme of the next IPIConfEx is available on the relevant website ( http://www.ipi-confex.com/ ), or, in the organizers’ definition, “the Premier Conference and Exposition in Europe that is tailored to the interests of Patent Information Professionals”. The conference will be held in Benalmadena (near Malaga), Spain, from 6 to 10 March 2005 , […]

Patents, these “mysterious objects”* *(At least as far as Italy is concerned) Article by Bruno Rimoldi Introduction Telling AIDB members about the importance of patents and the need to understand them in order to make the best use of them—as well as to educate themselves—would be like preaching to the choir and might even come […]

The official and final version of the AIDB proposal for a European Certification for Patent Documentalists is available on this website. The proposal, which was approved during the last AIDB Members’ Assembly (May 26, 2005, Bologna), will be sent to various European organizations of patent searchers to solicit their feedback, and will also be personally […]

In an official statement, AIDB has made public its position on Article 48 of the 2006 Budget Bill, “Elimination of the Patent Tax.”

The program for the upcoming IPI-ConfEx (The International Patent Information Conference & Exposition), to be held in Athens from March 5 to 8, 2006, is now available. For more information: www.IPI-ConfEx.com.

The 2006 AIDB National Conference will be held in Varese at the prestigious Ville Ponti Convention Center, under the patronage of the Chamber of Commerce and the Industrialists’ Union of the Province of Varese. This year’s conference is dedicated to the theme: THE VALUE OF PATENT INFORMATION IN THE ITALIAN CONTEXT: Services Provided by Institutions, […]

CONVEY – Intellectual Property of Turin, which has been training specialists in the protection and promotion of Industrial and Intellectual Property (IP) for 20 years, with the support and collaboration of: * Ministry of Economic Development – UIBM (Italian Patent and Trademark Office) * Order of Industrial Property Consultants * AIDB – Italian Association of […]

The preliminary program is now available, and registration is open for IPI-ConfEx™ 2007, which will be held March 4–7, 2007 , at the Hilton Sorrento Palace Hotel in Sorrento. For detailed information , please visit the IPI-ConfEx™ website .

Italy is now the fourth country—after France, Germany, and Spain—to comply with European standards (UNI CEI EN ISO/IEC 17024:2004— Conformity Assessment. General requirements for bodies operating in the certification of persons), which provides for the certification of information specialists, librarians, media librarians, information monitors, knowledge managers, archivists, records managers, and multimedia content managers. A press […]

Please be advised that the AIDB Secretariat will be closed for the Christmas holidays from December 27, 2006, to January 5, 2006. AIDB wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

On February 15, 2007, a conference on industrial property and business will be held at the Milan Chamber of Commerce. The event, aimed at businesses and organized by the Milan Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with Assotec, is intended to provide an overview of the changes that have taken place in the field of industrial […]

AIDB is a sponsor of the “Bernardo Nobile” Undergraduate Thesis Award for multidisciplinary documentary research, now in its third year and organized by Area di Ricerca Trieste. The research and use of documentation and patents as a source of information is at the heart of the undergraduate (or doctoral) thesis award named after Bernardo Nobile, […]