DRUG, BIO-AFFECTING AND BODY TREATING COMPOSITIONS

Classification 424/195.150 - 195.180 >> view this class definition

U. S. PATENT RESOURCES

As general guidance, a complete search of U. S. patents in this art area will include the following:

1. A classified search of the original classification class and subclass for the subject matter and the other highly relevant art areas in the US patent documents
2. A text search of the US patent documents; patents, PG PUB, and OCR databases:
• Broad text search for the general inventive concept(s), not limited by classification
• Narrow text search for the specific claimed invention
• Boolean text search employing the relevant inventive terms

The resources listed below are internal USPTO search tools. However, the information that they cover is available either commercially, on the USPTO web site, or in the Public Search Facility on the USPTO Headquarters campus and the Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries.

EAST/WEST

EAST Coverage: 1971 - present, Full Text: 1971 - present

WEST Coverage: 1971 - present, Full Text: 1971 - present

Full text patent and inventor searching.

EAST or WEST is used for full text, inventor, and class/subclass searching. All patent documents in a classification are viewed for relevance to the patent application being searched. Queries may include classification parameters when combined with other terms to be searched in the technical content of the application.

ABSS (Automated Biotechnology Sequence Search System)

Coverage: - Current, Full Text: - Current

Genetic sequence search system.

USPTO internal genetic sequence search system composed of commercially available databases such as Genbank/EMBL, Geneseq, PIR, and UniProt. In-house databases (pending applications, issued patents, and published applications (PGPubs)) are also available for interference and prior art purposes. Useful for routine sequence searching as well as specialized searches, including alignments, length-limited, oligomer, and score/length.

PALM (Patent Application Locating and Monitoring)

USPTO Coverage: - Current, Full Text: - Current

Pending patent applications, recent patents, and abandoned files.

The Patent Application Locating and Monitoring (PALM) system is a large database system that maintains records for each patent application. PALM is designed to provide on-line access to information on all pending applications, as well as most recently patented and abandoned files. Useful for searching related applications by inventor name.

PGPUBS

EAST Coverage: 2001 - present, Full Text: 2001 - present

WEST Coverage: 2001 - present, Full Text: 2001 - present

U.S. published applications.

Used for full text, inventor, and classification searching.

FOREIGN PATENT RESOURCES

Searched separately from the U.S. Patent Search. These databases consist of abstract documents. Text searching abstracts requires the use of different search logic e.g. the use of broad Boolean and/or operators instead of narrow proximity operators.

Derwent World Patents Index and the contents of the EPO Abstracts and JPO Abstracts are available commercially.

Derwent World Patents Index, Classification and Text Search

EAST Coverage: 1963 - present, Full Text: - N/A

WEST Coverage: 1963 - present, Full Text: - N/A

English abstracts database of patent documents from more than 40 patent-issuing authorities.

EAST or WEST is used for text and assignee/inventor searching. Queries may include classification parameters when combined with other terms to be searched in the technical content of the application.

EPO Abstracts, Text and Classification Search

EAST Coverage: 1978 - present, Full Text: - N/A

WEST Coverage: 1978 - present, Full Text: - N/A

English abstracts database of patents and published applications from EPO, WO/PCT, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Switzerland. USPC searching is limited to documents added to the database from 1978 to September 30, 1995.

EAST or WEST is used for text and assignee/inventor searching. Queries may include classification parameters when combined with other terms to be searched in the technical content of the application.

EPO esp@cenet

esp@cenet Coverage: 1920 - present, Full Text: 1920 - present

National patent information from all member states of the EPO as well as bibliographic data from patents worldwide.

Used for machine translations and document retrieval.

FPAS3

Coverage: 1980 - present, Full Text: -

USPTO foreign patent document retrieval system.

JPO Abstracts, Text and Classification Search

EAST Coverage: 1976 - present, Full Text: - N/A

WEST Coverage: 1976 - present, Full Text: - N/A

English abstracts database of Japanese published unexamined applications. USPC searching is limited to documents added to the database from 1978 to September 30, 1995.

EAST or WEST is used for text and assignee/inventor searching. Queries may include classification parameters when combined with other terms to be searched in the technical content of the application.

JPO Industrial Property Digital Library

NCIPI Coverage: 1976 - present, Full Text: 1976 - present

Japanese patent information.

Used for machine translations and document retrieval.

NON-PATENT LITERATURE RESOURCES

The resources listed are those that USPTO staff have found consistently yield the most relevant search results. Commercial databases available through a single vendor can generally be searched simultaneously, although it is preferable to search full text and bibliographic databases in separate groupings. In addition to the use of subscription databases and public Internet sites, it is recommended that books, manuals, standards and specifications be considered in the search for prior art.

BIOSIS Previews

Dialog Coverage: 1969 - present, Full Text: - N/A

STN Coverage: 1969 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Comprehensive worldwide coverage of research in the biological and biomedical sciences.

Contains information on life sciences, including biological and biomedical areas. Used for text and inventor searching. Highly relevant art found here frequently.

CA SEARCH: Chemical Abstracts

Dialog Coverage: 1967 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Questel Orbit Coverage: 1967 - present, Full Text: - N/A

STN Coverage: 1907 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Database of the worldwide literature of chemistry and its applications. Abstracts available via STN.

Useful in text, inventor, structure, and registry number searching. Covers a broad range of subject areas.

CAOLD (Pre-1967 Chemical Abstracts File)

STN Coverage: 1907 - 1966, Full Text: - N/A

Chemical Abstracts (CA) references from 1907 through 1966.

Searchable by Registry number, CA reference numbers, authors, patent assignees and title keywords. Structure diagrams are available.

CAplus

STN Coverage: 1907 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Chemistry bibliographic database.

Covers the same material as file CA but contains early access to bibliographic information and patent family information for the documents in the process of being indexed. Useful in text, inventor, structure, and registry number searching.

Dissertation Abstracts Online

Dialog Coverage: 1861 - present, Full Text: - N/A

STN Coverage: 1861 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Subject, title, and author guide to virtually every American dissertation accepted at an accredited institution.

Contains abstracts of US and selected foreign doctoral works and selected masters theses.

Dissertations and Theses - Full Text

ProQuest Coverage: 1861 - present, Full Text: Dates - vary

Doctoral dissertations and Master's theses.

Information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. More than 600,000 are available in native or image PDF formats.

EMBASE

Dialog Coverage: 1993 - present, Full Text: - N/A

STN Coverage: 1974 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Index of the world's literature on human medicine and related disciplines.

Comprehensive subject coverage. Highly relevant art found here frequently.

MEDLINE (Medical Literature, Analysis, and Retrieval System Online)

Dialog Coverage: 1951 - present, Full Text: - N/A

STN Coverage: 1950 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Bibliographic database containing references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.

Comprehensive subject coverage. Highly relevant art found here frequently.

REGISTRY

STN Coverage: - Current, Full Text: - Current

Substance database containing records for substances identified by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry System.

Chemical structure and dictionary database that contains unique substance records. Protein and nucleic acid sequences may be retrieved using codes for the amino acids and nucleotides. Useful for searching short sequences, peptides, and registry numbers.

CHEMCATS (Chemical Catalogs Online)

STN Coverage: 1995 - present, Full Text: 1995 - present

Chemical catalogs.

CONFSCI (Conference Papers Index)

STN Coverage: 1973 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Bibliographic database that provides access to international research papers and findings presented at scientific and technical conferences and meetings throughout the world.

This resource may provide relevant information on the latest technology.

CRC handbook of chemistry and physics

CRC Press Coverage: - , Full Text: Latest - edition

STIC online catalog Coverage: - , Full Text: Dates - vary

Ready-reference book of chemical and physical data.

Derwent Biotechnology Resource

Dialog Coverage: 1982 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Questel Orbit Coverage: 1982 - present, Full Text: - N/A

STN Coverage: 1982 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Formerly Derwent Biotechnology Abstracts. Covers journal articles, patents, and conference proceedings describing research in the field of biotechnology.

Covers biotechnology from genetic manipulation through biochemical engineering and fermentation to downstream processing. Database contains some patent publications. Used for text and inventor searching, and for locating scientific meeting abstracts.

GenBank (R)

STN Coverage: 1982 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Nucleic acid database.

GenBank ® (registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service) is a nucleic acid database produced by the National Institute of Health. GenBank contains sequences and data such as the GenBank Locus Number, sequence description, source organism, sequence length, and references. Contains all sequences in EMBL and DDBJ (DNA DataBank of Japan).

Hackh's chemical dictionary

STIC online catalog Coverage: - , Full Text: 4th ed. - 1969

Hackh, I. and J. Grant

Used to identify the structure of named substituents, and for chemical terminology.

Inside Conferences

Dialog Coverage: 1993 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Contains details of all papers given at every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop, and meeting received at the British Library Document Supply Centre.

This resource may provide relevant information.

MARPAT (CAS Patent Markush)

STN Coverage: 1988 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Markush search service.

Contains the Markush structure records for patents found in the CA file with patent publication year 1988 to the present. Russian patents published after January 10, 2000 are included.

Merck Index OnlineSM

CambridgeSoft Coverage: - , Full Text: 13th ed. - 2001

Dialog Coverage: 2001 - 2001, Full Text: 2001 - 2001

STIC online catalog Coverage: - , Full Text: -

STN Coverage: 2001 - 2001, Full Text: 2001 - 2001

13th edition of The Merck Index.

Used to identify structures, registry numbers, synonyms, and patent numbers.

RCSB Protein Data Bank

RCSB Coverage: - N/A, Full Text: - N/A

Worldwide repository for the processing and distribution of 3-D biological macromolecular structure data.

Used for protein crystallography data.

Stedman's medical dictionary

STIC online catalog Coverage: - , Full Text: 27th ed. - 2000

xreferplus Coverage: - , Full Text: Current - edition

Stedman, T.

Used to obtain definitions.

INTERNET SEARCH TOOLS

An Internet search should be considered when a search of the resources listed above fails to locate relevant prior art. A preliminary Internet search may be performed to obtain an overview of the technology, and to identify additional search terms and related product information.

Google TM

Google Coverage: - N/A, Full Text: - N/A

Internet search engine.

Used to obtain background information, and for locating information on nutritional supplements.

Public Comments on the Search Templates

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