Hou Yu: professional tools should be used for drug patent protection and retrieval

On November 18, the pharmaceutical intelligence elite club "marriage" China Pharmaceutical University and the editorial board of pharmaceutical progress jointly held "China (Nanjing) 2015 pharmaceutical information access and utilization forum" in China Pharmaceutical University (Xuanwumen campus) At the meeting, Hou Yu, an expert of Expert Committee of pharmaceutical intelligence elite club, made an academic report, patent protection of drugs and retrieval, analysis and utilization of patent documents Let's review the highlights of the lecture: Professor Hou said that the patent protection period of Chinese invention is different from that of foreign countries According to the first patent law of the people's Republic of China on April 1, 1985, the validity of the patent right for invention is 15 years The patent law was amended in 1992, and the term of the patent right for invention is 20 years According to Hou, in different stages of the development of original drugs, different types of patents have been applied for successively, forming a patent protection chain with the longest service life Postpone patent application, and use the accelerated approval process of new drug listing as soon as possible, so as to extend the monopoly operation period within the patent protection period Make full use of relevant laws and regulations to extend the period of patent protection of drugs Patent litigation against competitors (30 months late) The writing of the patent specification can not only meet the requirements of "full disclosure", but also expand the scope of protection and increase the difficulty of imitation The key contents of the analysis and investigation of patent documents include the analysis of the source of patent technology (the situation of inventors, applicants and patentees), the analysis of the legal status of patent (the situation of authorization, invalidation and expiration), the analysis of the patentability (novelty, creativity and practicability) of patent applications, the analysis of the scope of patent protection (time, region and technical field), and the description of patent Analysis of technical details, summary and analysis of equivalent patents, summary and analysis of related patents, analysis of technology and product development stage, analysis of patent types, search and analysis of similar technical patents in the same technical field Finally, Professor Hou introduced to you the function of drug intelligence data retrieval of drug patents The network information resources of pharmaceutical intelligence data for patent document retrieval, the direct retrieval of patent specification from known patent number, and how to solve the problem of drug nce patent retrieval He said that in order to accurately find the nce patent of a drug or the original patent of an original new drug, it is best to use a special search tool to get twice the result with half the effort.