Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval

Mihai Lupu obtained his PhD degree in 2008 under the Singapore-MIT Alliance at the National University of Singapore, where he researched data retrieval in peer-to-peer networks. He is continuing his research in the area of information retrieval, with an emphasis on patent retrieval, cross-lingual retrieval and chemical structure retrieval evaluation. At the IRF, he organizes the Chemical IR Evaluation campaign and the Patent Information Retrieval workshop series, and leads the institute's involvement in several research projects.

Katja Mayer (PhD, University of Vienna) specialized in social studies of science and worked as a consultant, researcher and university lecturer before joining the Information Retrieval Facility (IRF). She is interested in the historical and social implications of information retrieval applications and focuses on the public impact of search technologies.

John Tait (PhD, University of Cambridge, 1983) first followed a career in industry, mainly working on problems of large-scale information retrieval and management, before taking up a post at the University of Sunderland in 1991, where he eventually became Professor of Intelligent Information Systems and Associate Dean ofComputing and Technology, leading the University of Sunderland Information Retrieval Group. In September 2007 he took up the post of Chief Scientific Officer of the IRF. John is a past Program Committee chair of the ACM SIGIR conference (2005), past General Chair of the EuropeanConference on Information Retrieval (2004), an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Information Systems,and joint Editor of Natural Language Engineering, and he has published over 100 refereed conference and journal papers.His current research focuses on patent retrieval and multi-lingual search.

Anthony Trippe is Director of Intellectual Property Analytics with 3LP Advisors, which he joined in 2008. Previous to that he was Senior Innovation Manager at CAS where he was responsible for creating new product ideas around the areas of chemical, life sciences and patent information. He has a long history of working in the patent information field and has been a sought-after speaker for many years on the topic of patent analysis and visualization. In addition, Anthony is currently the PIUG (Patent Information Users Group, Inc.) Chair (2010-2012) and the Chair of the Patent Analysis Working Group.