Patent information retrieval in the preparation of pharmacopeia articles on drugs projects

Abstract

The article covers the issues of patent information retrieval technologies for the elaboration of draft pharmacopoeia monographs on immunobiologicals. It describes the opportunities of automated search in the databases of the Russian Federal Agency for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks or the World Intellectual Property Organization. The article defines selection criteria for published patent documents in order to determine current invention patents, the essential features of which were used for the elaboration of draft pharmacopoeia monographs. The results of the study showed the need for patent information retrieval and result recording in the elaboration of draft pharmacopoeia monographs on immunobiologicals, which will allows to timely obtain an agreement of a patent holder for publishing information about the patented immunobiological medicines in the State Pharmacopoeia of the Russian Federation.