This space is reserved for ‘Friends of the Award’ – organizations who recognize and uphold the need for honoring the patent information industry’s great professionals. The IPI ‘Friends’ symbol reflects the support of the international community for excellence in patent information.

The Patent Information Users Group, Inc. (PIUG), the International Society for Patent Information, is a not-for-profit organization for individuals having a professional, scientific or technical interest in patent information. The mission of PIUG is to encourage the development of patent information research and analysis systems, to further develop members' patent research and analysis skills, and to provide appropriate recognition for its members excelling in the field. Through this international forum and discussion, we promote and improve the retrieval, analysis and dissemination of patent information.

The Patent Documentation Group (PDG) seeks to promote the effective and efficient use of patent information. One way of accomplishing this goal is uniting users of patent information. Its membership includes many large firms in various industries, like chemistry, electronics, and engineering. Users share interests that can be best served if they agree on joint proposals to put forward to patent offices and information providers. The PDG is represented in many meetings of various organizations and enjoys observer status at several committees of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Members also benefit from the opportunity provided by PDG to discuss the subject of their daily activities with people in similar positions in other companies.

Technology & Patent Research International, Inc. is a full service search firm specializing in researching worldwide patent and non-patent information sources for all areas of technology.

TPR International offers a variety of services, including analysis of worldwide patent and non-patent literature for state-of-the-art searches through to infringement and validity studies conducted via world-wide and regional online databases and/or via manual searching conducted at patent offices and libraries in Europe, the U.S. and Japan.

Magister Ltd. is an independent consultancy which provides a range of services to the scientific and technical information community. Primary activities are concentrated in the field of patents documentation. Magister is founded on the principle that there is no shortage of advice or expertise in the patents information field, but conveying that expertise - to the people who matter, when it counts, in the right form - needs to be done better.

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