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The 1st Int'l Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval - PaIR'08 on was held on Oct 30,
2008 in Napa, CA, co-located with the CIKM 2008 conference on Computational
Intelligence and Knowledge Management. The workshop attracted 22 both high-profile
university people as well as IP professionals from various companies (e.g. Thomson
Reuters, LexisNexis, CAS, BASF, Boston Scientific, etc.). We had Anthony Trippe from 3LP
Advisors as invited speaker who gave an interesting and lively talk on the importance of
patents for the economy.

In total 7 papers were accepted as full papers and presented at the workshop.
Additionally, 2 contributions were presented as posters.

More information at http://www.ir-facility.org/events/pair08?searchterm=pair08.