� Ms. Nancy Lambert Named IPI-Award Recipient 2008

(Venue: International Patent Information Conference & Exposition, IPI-ConfEx 2008, Seville, Spain; following the welcom of delegates to the IPI-ConfEx dinner hosted by Technology & Patent Research International)

Monday 3^rd March, 2008:

Ford Khorsandian (Founder and IPI Award Sponsor, TPR):

The International Patent Information Award was created to acknowledge the significant achievements of individuals and their service towards the advancement of patent information. The IPI Award, now in its ninth year, is sponsored by Technology & Patent Research International.

It is important to note that the IPI Award is an Award from the patent information community at large because anyone can choose to make a nomination. Nominations are submitted to an International Selection Board and this Board is responsible for evaluating the nominations, as well as for selecting the recipient each year.

I am delighted to be joined this evening by four members of the Board:

Dr. Ian Sinclair, who is former Site Head of Information Management at Pfizer Global R&D; former Vice President of the Pharma Documentation Ring (PDR) in Europe; and a Member of the IPI-ConfEx and Pharma-Bio-Med Board of Counselors

Mrs. Minoo Philipp, who is the Scientific Information Manager at Henkel; President of the Patent Documentation Group; and Member of the IPI-ConfEx Board of Counselors

Mr. Aalt van de Kuilen, who is Senior Information Specialist at Solvay Pharmaceuticals; Vice President of WON, the Dutch Patent Information Group; and Member of the IPI-ConfEx and Pharma-Bio-Med Board of Counselors

and

Mr. Koh Ishii, who is Senior Advisor at CKS; formerly with Nippon Oil Corporation; and past President of several patent information user groups in Japan

The other Board members for the 2008 Award, who are not able to be here this evening are:

Dr. Patricia Dedert, Ms. Suzanne Robins, Ms. Edlyn Simmons, and Mr. Roy Zimmermann

My personal gratitude goes to all the Board Members for their help and support with the Award. I’d now like to pass the proceedings over to Dr. Ian Sinclair, Chairman of the Selection Board.

Ian Sinclair (Chairman of the IPI-Award International Selection Board):

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. It is truly a great honour for me to announce tonight the recipient of the IPI Award for 2008. The IPI Award is firmly established in the patent information community and is a true recognition of one individual’s very special contribution.

I realise that I stand between you, food and drink, and a really enjoyable evening, so I won’t detain you too long!

Before proceeding to the announcement, as Chair of the Selection Board I want to express my sincere thanks to all the Board members who yet again have given generously of their time, worked hard, diligently and professionally throughout the selection process. Their work culminates tonight with this announcement.

With assistance from my fellow Board members, we will briefly mention the career highlights of the Award recipient and then the make the announcement.

Our Award winner graduated in chemistry before gaining a Master’s degree in information science. There then followed a distinguished career over thirty years in the chemical industry, working as an information specialist with prime responsibilities for chemical and polymer patent searching. This is a person who, through the years, has become a leading authority on these subjects and one of the outstanding figures in the international patent information community. This reputation was gained not just as a truly expert practitioner, but as someone who contributed greatly to the overall benefit of the patent information community.

This has been a professional career dedicated to patent information.

Minoo Philip:

Firstly, there has been the persistent pursuit of quality in patent databases. Our recipient has given time to work with vendors, as a member of quality control committees, and with database producer committees improving the quality of indexing. This selfless commitment of energy to ensuring quality, perhaps not always visible to the community at large, has been crucial in the development of leading patent information resources and tools.

Aalt van de Kuilen:

Secondly there is the aspect of “spreading the gospel”. Our Award winner has an outstanding reputation as a teacher and communicator, both written and in presentations. The international patent information world has read more than 60 papers and articles and has been informed by more than two dozen presentations by our Award winner at international meetings, all advancing the cause of expert patent searching. In the words of one editor, “I can count on the fingers on one hand the writers one can rely on for totally authoritative content combined with hands-on, bull’s –eye relevance, not to mention readable, grammatically precise writing style”.

Koh Ishii:

This is someone who is recognised for the sustained positive influence upon members of our profession through invaluable teaching and as acting as a mentor to both new and experienced patent searchers.

Our recipient is someone who has developed the spirit of “community of practice” amongst patent information professionals at meetings such as the Patent Information Users Group (PIUG) and on Internet discussion lists. And this is someone who consistently brought fun to these proceedings.

Ian Sinclair:

This brief overview tells you that here we have someone who has made a very special contribution to patent information – in the words of one of the nominators, a person whose “many years as a collaborator, historian, reporter, critic, populizer and interpreter are worthy of the IPI Award”. And, in another quote, someone “who has contributed time and talents consistently and tirelessly over many years”.

This nomination was made by Harry Allcock and seconded by Stu Kaback, Edlyn Simmons, Sandy Smith and Barbara Quint.

It is my great pleasure to announce that the recipient of the IPI Award for 2008 is Nancy Lambert, formerly of the Chevron Corporation, one of the most knowledgeable experts on chemical patents, one of the most prolific and learned communicators in the field of patent information, a tireless and effective advocate of quality in patent information, and a leading influence at the PIUG.

Ladies and Gentlemen, let’s hear it for Nancy Lambert.

Nancy is unable to be with us this evening to receive the Award. The formal presentation to Nancy will be made at the Patent Information User Group meeting in the US in May. In the meantime, details about Nancy Lambert’s career and achievements will be posted on the IPI-Award website.

Thank you for your attention Ladies and Gentlemen. That concludes our announcement and we wish you a very enjoyable evening.

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