Patent research in field of pharmaceuticals is very special and complicated due to several reasons...
- Pharmaceuticals is a field with extremely high patenting activity;
- Patenting of pharmaceuticals associated with vary of legal issues related to ethical nature of this field;
- Because of 1) and 2) approaches to protection of pharmaceuticals are highly variative;
- Because of 3) a lots of indirect methods of protection used in patenting of pharmaceuticals.
Patents protecting pharmaceuticals can protect many its features e.g.,
- substance, per se;
- manufacturing and processing;
- chemical and physical forms;
- modifications;
- therapeutical forms;
- use;
- etc.
Under service PharmaScan(SM) we offer following options:
- Identification of all patents protecting interested medical preparation on interested market (country) with calculation of precise expiration dates for each patent;
- Identification of forthcoming generics - search of potential generics and calculating correct earliest date of expiration of each patent;
- Defoliation of Evergreens - identification already expired earlier patents protecting given pharmaceuticals.
