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| Chemical Prior Art Search Process |
IP Legal Services has conducted patent searches, and drafted and filed chemical patent applications. To see examples of our published and granted patents, please view our posted list of chemical patents. |
IP Legal Services conducts prior art searches using the commercial Thomson Innovation(A Thomson Reuters Product) Patent Search Engine |
The following information is required by the patent attorney for conducting a prior art search for a chemical patent application |
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Preliminary description of chemical invention |
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List of processes integral to the chemical invention |
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Elements and compositions involved in the processes of the chemical invention. |
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Reactions involved in the processes of the chemical invention. |
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Results of reactions along with the details of resulting compositions of the chemical invention. |
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Compositions in terms of parts per weight of the chemical invention. |
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Structure of each element of the chemical invention. |
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Preliminary description of chemical invention |
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| Chemical Patent Application Process |
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| General U.S.PTO Statistics of Chemical Patents |
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Chemical firms, big or small, routinely patent chemical innovations. For instance, Bayer has 10,582 granted chemical patents followed by DuPont with 9083 granted patents. |
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Even companies such as Texas Instruments and Motorola Inc., who may not be perceived to be strongly chemistry oriented, hold about 2236 and 1892 chemical related patents, respectively. |
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Approximately 803,630 chemical patents have already been granted by the US patent office until December 31, 2004 and about 35,000 new patents are issued every year. |
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Chemical patents are granted over a wide range of sub disciplines. For instance, there are about 14,000 organic synthesis patents, 1332 carbohydrate chemistry patents, 1348 structural biology patents, 15358 chemical analysis patents, 1538 computationally aided molecular design patents, 908 chemical element discovery patents, 1241 nanotechnology patents and 15 space chemistry patents. That’s a lot of patents! |
