>Does any one know how to check SPC for patent? What is possible period
for >SPC?
Dear d.m.Acharya,
Information about Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPC) available
in INPADOC.
For simple questions about SPC for a specific patent (or a patent
application) you may use simple interfaces available through Delphion
one-day-pass http://www.delphion.com/products/products-onedaypass (or
month subscription, or pay-as-go at DIALOG open access
http://openaccess.dialog.com/forms/PTCPatentsInpadoc.html,
STN Easy http://stneasy.cas.org/html/english/login1.html (an immediate
activation of new account).
For more complicated questions, like "for which patents the company A
filed applications for SPC and which are granted in 2001," you need to
use command language interface in STN, file INPADOC,
http://www.cas.org/ONLINE/DBSS/inpadocss.html or DIALOG, file 345
(http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl0345.html).
See which information may be available for which country in the next
table: http://www.european-patent-office.org/inpadoc/faq/spc_cov.htm
(July 2001)
For UK SPC information available at Supplementary Protection Certificate
(SPC) Service (http://www.patent.gov.uk/patent/dbase/pcheck2.htm
[See Stephen Adams' posting at PIUG-list (Re: UK SPCs on the web (Wed
Feb 21 2001 - 12:28:42 EST)
http://www.questel.orbit.com/Piug/current/2231.html)).
A comprehensive information on a specific drug may be found at IMSworld
Patents International (using a DIALOG and STN subscription)
http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl0447.html
http://www.cas.org/ONLINE/DBSS/drugpatss.html
See STN example of record with CYTAB field at slides 28-30
http://www.stn-international.de/training_center/patents/erfa_pat01/fizch
emie/sld028.htm
You may wish to look to the article of Stephen Adams, the PIUG expert,
Information Sources on Post-Grant Actions to Pharmaceutical Patents
(now online http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ci010112p
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ci010112p> ), which will be published in
issue #3 (May 2002) of J Chem Inf Comp Sci.
Finally,
"HOW LONG DOES AN SPC LAST? The aim of the SPC is to restore 15 years of
effective patent life between grant of the first marketing authorization
in the EU for the product to which the patent relates and expiry of the
SPC. The term of the SPC is therefore equal to the period which has
elapsed between filing of the patent application and grant of the first
EU marketing authorization, less five years. The term of the SPC may
not, however, exceed five years. The SPC takes effect on expiry of the
basic patent, but only if the annual renewal fees necessary to activate
the SPC are paid prior to patent expiry."
(http://www.mewburn.com/mespctxt.htm)
Regards,
Aleksandr Belinskiy
Information Consultant
503 Roosevelt Blvd., Apt. A319
Falls Church, VA 22044-3116
Phone: (703) 533-6568
E-mail: abelinskiy@aol.com
In a message dated 4/7/2002 1:56:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
dmacharya@alembic.co.in writes:
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Date:4/7/2002 1:56:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: dmacharya@alembic.co.in <mailto:dmacharya@alembic.co.in>
To: piug-l@derwent.co.uk <mailto:piug-l@derwent.co.uk>
Sent from the Internet
Good day
Does any one know how to check SPC for patent? What is possible period
for SPC?
Regards,
d.m.Acharya
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