DrugPatentWatch

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Introduction

DrugPatentWatch is a subscription database containing “patent status,” “regulatory status,” “drug information,” and “trends and historical information” about pharmaceutical drugs.^[1] DrugPatentWatch also publishes “Pharmaceutical Industry Reports [...] produced by data-mining the DrugPatentWatch Database, and [providing] detailed information on FDA-approved pharmaceutical drugs.”^[2]

Various industry reports include:^[2]

• ”International Drug Patent Inventors Report”
• ”Orphan Drug Report”
• ”Drug Patent Challenge Report”
• ”Drug Patent Inventor Report”
• ”Pharmaceutical Pricing and Distribution in Japan”

Features and Availability

The DrugPatentWatch database includes three subscription plans:^[3]

• The Basic Plan includes “information on drug patents”, including “patent titles, abstract, inventors, and assignees” and “patent and regulatory exclusivity listings.” ^[3]
• The Premium Plan includes “patent maintenance, reexamination, interference, and disclaimer, trends in patent expiration and top patent holders, search by therapeutic class and dosage type, historical archives, drug sale figures, full-text patent downloads, Paragraph IV challenges, patent claim types, and tentative approvals.” ^[3]
• The Ultimate Plan includes “all the features of the premium and basic plans,” as well as clinical trial and international patent information, and lets you “export search results to .xls or .csv.” ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ”Drug Patent Watch Plan Comparison.” DrugPatentWatch website, http://www.drugpatentwatch.com/comparison.php. Accessed on April 4, 2011.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} ” Pharmaceutical Industry Reports.” DrugPatentWatch website, http://www.drugpatentwatch.com/reports/. Accessed April 4, 2011.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} ”DrugPatentWatch.” DrugPatentWatch website, http://www.drugpatentwatch.com/. Accessed April 4, 2011.