CHEMICAL PATENTS

The Orange Book identifies drug products approved on the basis of safety and effectiveness by the Food and Drug  Administration (FDA) under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. It also offers related patent and exclusivity information.  

PubAg provides agritech data, including  patents. It contains the Agricola and Ag Data Commons databases, offering data sets, software, and multimedia such as agricultural biotechnology. USDA's Agricultural Research Service provides agronomics, food science, etc. 

PubChem offers information on molecules such as nucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, and chemically-modified macromolecules. Chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, and patents are also included. 

PatentScope contains over 95 million international patents. Access to PatentScope requires setting up a free account. The site offers chemical structure searching that recognizes the names of chemical compounds in patent texts and their structure from embedded drawings in patent texts. The chemical search applies to the title, abstract, claim and description fields. 

Chemical structures of plants in medicinal herbs spur drug discovery. Health innovators utilize medicinal plant patents as case studies for research in medicine and health science. Biologists may refer to plant patents for both aesthetic and practical features of a plant, e.g. slug resistance, deer resistance. Researchers can conduct independent tests on these features and associated genetic markers. 

SureChEMBL is a "big data," chemically annotated, international patent database. It contains compounds extracted from the full text, images, and attachments of patent documents. The site offers access to drug discovery, medicinal chemistry, and other commercial aspects of chemical science. The database contains over 17 million compounds extracted from 14 million patent documents.