� Mr. Harry Allcock Presentation Ceremony, IPI-Award 2007

Monday 7^th May, 2007:

Venue: Patent Information Users Group (PIUG) Annual Conference 2007, Hilton Costa Mesa, California; Evening Dinner Presentation Ceremony Event co-hosted by PIUG and Wolters Kluwer Health.

Suzanne Robins, Chair of PIUG:

I’m Suzanne Robins, and on behalf of the PIUG, I’d like to say how delighted we are to be co-hosting this dinner tonight in honor of our colleague and friend, Harry Allcock.

The evening will begin with a 20-minute ceremony and presentation of the 2007 International Patent Information Award to Harry. The Award itself is sponsored by Technology & Patent Research International. Dinner will be served immediately following the ceremony.

But first, a few words from our co-hosts, Wolters Kluwer Health.

Paul Wituschek, Global Sales Director, Wolters Kluwer Health:

Good Evening. My name is Paul Wituschek, Global Sales Director at Wolters Kluwer Health.

IFI Patent Intelligence, a division of WKH, is pleased to be co-sponsoring this dinner with PIUG this evening. I want to extend a warm welcome to all of you and thank you for joining us on the occasion of this celebration of the 2007 IPI Award recipient.

WKH and IFI would like to thank those of you who nominated Harry Allcock for this prestigious award, and to the IPI Board for selecting Harry as the 2007 award recipient. We are very proud of Harry’s contributions to IFI, and thank you again for this recognition.

I have the privilege of working with the current IFI Patent Intelligence staff, and the honor to introduce Harry, a former IFI staff member, who was instrumental in the development of IFI's enhanced US patent databases, and related products and services. I understand that Harry had a way of bringing people in the patent community together through parties that were heavy on liquids. So, please raise your glass, and together let's send a toast of congratulations to Harry Allcock, the 2007 IPI Award recipient! Let “Harry’s Party” begin!

I’d now like to hand over to the IPI-Award Board to proceed with the ceremony.

Trudi Jones, on behalf of IPI-Award Sponsors, Technology & Patent Research (TPR) International, Inc.:

Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen. My name is Trudi Jones of TPR International, and on behalf of everyone here, I’d like to express our sincere thanks to Wolters Kluwer Health and to the PIUG for being our gracious hosts tonight.

The International Patent Information Award was created to acknowledge the significant achievements of individuals and their service towards the advancement of patent information. We are here to honor the achievements of Harry Allcock, to present the Award, and to hear from Harry himself.

To start the proceedings, I’d like to ask Ford Khorsandian, President of Technology & Patent Research, to introduce the members of the IPI-Award International Selection Board; this will be followed by Darlene Slaughter, General Manager of IFI Patent Intelligence, to talk about Harry’s contribution to patent information.

Ford Khorsandian, President of Technology & Patent Research (TPR) International, Inc.:

Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen. My name is Trudi Jones of TPR International, and on behalf of everyone here, I’d like to express our sincere thanks to Wolters Kluwer Health and to the PIUG for being our gracious hosts tonight.

The International Selection Board is comprised of individuals who are well respected information professionals in their own right and who, in addition, serve with information industry groups based in the US, Europe and Japan.

The distinguished members here with us tonight are:

Ms. Edlyn Simmons of Procter & Gamble, also IPI-Award Recipient for 2005

Dr. Patricia Dedert of ExxonMobil

Mr. Koh Ishii of CKS in Japan

Ms. Suzanne Robins of Patent Information Services

and Mr. Roy Zimmermann of Medtronic

Those not able to be here tonight, but who send their very best regards are:

Mrs. Minoo Philipp of Henkel in Germany

Mr. Aalt van de Kuilen of Solvay in the Netherlands, and

IPI-Award Selection Board Chairman, Dr. Ian Sinclair, formerly with Pfizer, UK

My sincere thanks to all the Board members for their diligence and wisdom in selecting the IPI-Award recipient for 2007.

Darlene Slaughter, General Manager, IFI Patent Intelligence:

Click here for a full transcript of Darlene Slaughter’s speech.

Trudi Jones:

At this time, I’d like to ask Mr Harry Allcock to please step forward to receive the International Patent Information Award for 2007 from Ford Khorsandian, President of TPR International. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Harry Allcock.

Click here for a transcript of Mr. Harry Allcock’s acceptance speech.

Click here for transcripts of congratulatory messages to Harry Allcock from industry user associations.

Ford Khorsandian:

Thank you very much for your attention. I’m glad that you are all here to share this very special evening with Harry.

We do have a guest book for Harry to keep as a memento of tonight. You all have a card at your place-setting, so please take the time to write your own personal message of congratulations to Harry on the card and sign your name. The cards will be collected after dinner to add to the book.

This concludes the presentation ceremony. Enjoy your dinner, and have a great time!

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