Why cant I find all the patents I need to know about from public sources of information?
Patent searching is a complex and highly skilled task that should be undertaken by professionals , it involves identifying all relevant material from over 50 million published patent documents. There are numerous databases available facilitate this, some of which are free but, because of variation in the patent data contained in such databases, a suitably qualified professional must be used in order to extract the necessary information in an accurate and reliable manner. This is because innovator companies may use a range of means to avoid identification of their patents until the last minute, invoking maximum damage to generic competitors. Our patent searchers are qualified chemists, are multi-lingual and are experienced in the pharmaceutical patents. We combine these skills with complex, time-consuming patent searching techniques through a variety of commercial databases, individually analysing between 3000 and 6000 patents per active ingredient. We go to these lengths to give our cu
