Useful resources in the IP field: pharmaceutical database Pat-INFORMED

14 may 2025

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Pat-INFORMED is a web–based patent database developed by the World Intellectual Property Organization with the support of a number of global pharmaceutical companies and equipped with advanced search tools. This resource is non-commercial and was created to help healthcare institutions purchase medicines.

To obtain up-to-date information about a medicine, the user has to perform a search for the so-called international nonproprietary name, specifying the target country if necessary. Patent collections from a number of regional patent offices can also be selected as search arrays. Any link from the list of medicines generated as a result of the search leads to the corresponding Internet page with detailed information about the patent documentation related to the seached substance. The documents found usually characterize the pharmaceutical compound itself, its main ingredients, as well as the methods of their preparation and possible methods of use in the treatment and prevention of diseases.

In addition, for even greater convenience, the Pat-INFORMED database contains a link to the PATENTSCOPE information portal, which also allows you to search for patented chemical compounds, including medicinal ones.

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