How Do You Find A New Compound to Patent? Understanding & applying strategy on how to perform chemical structure searches online with help of patent tools. Our chemical structure searches involve detailed analysis of the subject patent by analysing the patent claims. Chemical structure searches are conducted by experienced pharma search experts on international patent databases.

1. Chemical Structure Patent Search
Methodology
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2. Patent Search Strategy
SIMPLE CHECKLIST FOR PERFORMING CHEMICAL
STRUCTURE PATENT SEARCH ON PATENT
DATABASES

3. PATENT RESEARCH INVOLVING CHEMICAL
STRUCTURES
Many chemical compounds which are patent worthy are
available in the patentscope WIPO database. However,
to search relevant patent results a proper chemical
structure patent search strategy should be in place.

4. How to Conduct a Chemical-Structure Patent Search for a
Molecule
Step 1: Identify key features of the
technology based on the information
provided.

5. How to Conduct a Free Chemical-Structure Patent Search for
a Molecule
Step 2: Identify the main independent
claims of the granted patent.

6. How to Conduct Chemical-Structure Patent Search for a
Molecule
Step 3: Identify alternative names of the main
chemical compounds including trivial name,
commercial name, IUPAC name or CAS name, the
International NonProprietary Name, INN InchI,
InchIkeys and Smiles.

7. How to Conduct Chemical-Structure Patent Search for a
Molecule
Step 4: Identify different spellings of chemical
names.

8. How to Conduct Chemical-Structure Patent Search for a
Molecule
Step 5: Chemical structure research can be
carried out in WIPO (patentscope),
ChemSpider and Surechembl.

9. Client Solving Approach
When a client approaches you to determine value of a key
chemical compound and you want to find how many patents
have been filed claiming the key chemical compound or its
derivative, you need a problem solving approach for your
client.

10. Client Solving Approach
What if you don’t have in-house researchers
to perform those chemical structure patent
searches.

11. What is the Solution?
Follow the checklist stated above to perform
your chemical structure patent search.

12. Chemical Patent Tips
The checklist will be helpful for chemical patent lawyers or
pharmaceutical patent attorneys. Whether you are working on
patent infringement suit involving chemical compounds or a
patent due diligence project for an acquisition, determining
the true value of granted chemical patent will be helpful in the
long run.

13. Case Study: Example for Chemical Structure
Chemical patent chemical compound search for
Mannitol

14. Alternative names and structure details for Mannitol
InChI:
InChI=1S/C6H14O6/c7-1-3(9)5(11)6(12)4(10)
2-8/h3-12H,1-2H2
InChiKey: FBPFZTCFMRRESA-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Molecular
Formula:
C6H14O6
Molecular
Weight:
182.173 g/mol

15. Mannitol
SMILES: C(O)(C(O)CO)C(O)C(O)CO
Alternate names: Aridol, BRN 1721898, Bronchitol, C6-H14-O6, Cordycepic acid,
D- mannitol, D-manitol, Diosmol, Hexanehexol, 1,2,3,4,5,6-, Invenex, Isotol,
Maniton-S, Manna sugar, Mannazucker, Mannidex, Mannigen, Mannistol, Mannit,
Mannite, Mannitol , Mannogem 2080, Marine Crystal, Osmitrol.

16. Pharmaceutical Patent Search Strategy
You can search the patent chemical compounds using the above mentioned
patent databases. The patent results can be narrowed down with other relevant
keywords and/or IPC, CPC, USPC.
If you are an independent chemical researcher searching by compound name will
not be useful because related structural analogs will have unrelated names.
Therefore to find results covering analogs of chemical compound, you need to
perform a chemical structure search in patent databases.

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20. Any Questions
If you are a scientist, health-professional, chemist,
professionals in the pharmaceutical industry, in-house
chemical lawyer or a pharmaceutical attorney we can assist
you with chemical structure patent search.
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