[e-drug] Indian Patent Searches

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E-DRUG: Indian Patent Searches
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Dear Friends,

I wanted to share with you the tremendously important website that
Professor Bhaven Sampat at Columbia University has launched. For the
past year, he and collaborator Patrick Crosby have been working to
'program' the Indian Patent Office's journals into a searchable
database.

The ability to search the Indian Patent Office's data has been greatly
hindered by the lack of such a database. Now, it is possible for the
public to search patent applications by company name or keyword. It is
also possible to see what patents have been granted to date in India.
The data are based on applications and patents published from January
2005 onwards (including the "mailbox" applications) and are updated
weekly.

Please visit http://india.bigpatents.org/ to access this important tool.

If you have feedback on features, particularly any you would like to
see included in the site, please send an e-mail to bns3@columbia.edu
with the subject line "Indian patent database".

Best,
Priti Radhakrishnan