-Patent Searching

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
The USPTO offers web access to bibliographic and full-text patent databases. These databases provide full-text of patents from 1976 to the present and full page images from 1790 to the present.

See What is a Patent?
See Patent Searching Tips.
See ‘What is Intellectual Property?’ in Frequently Asked Questions for Inventors
See ‘Manual of Patent Classification’

Fresh Patents
Provides access to the latest published US patent applications each week BEFORE the USPTO decision to
grant/deny.

pat2pdf.org
Given a patent number, pat2pdf.org will return a free, pdf formated version of the patent.

The Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO—from patents issued in the 1790s to present.

Medical Device Manufacturers Association – Patent Issues

How do I find International patents?

The Intellectual Property Digital Library Web site provides access to intellectual property data collections hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization. These collections include PCT (Patents), Madrid (Trademarks), Hague (Industrial Designs), Article 6ter (State Emblems, Official Hallmarks, and Emblems of Intergovernmental Organizations) and others.

See Technology Commercialization at Drexel and See Patent Policy (Re: Intellectual Property) from the Office of the Provost at Drexel University.

Patent Protection Strategies: Maximizing market exclusivity (Note: Search in ‘Business Insights’ database and use keyword ‘patent’ to locate this and other reports on patents)

Nanotechnology related initiatives

FDA’s Nanotechnology Task Force
National Nanotechnology Initiative
Nanomedicine from NIH

Nanotechnology to revolutionise drug delivery
Cancer nanotechnology: opportunities and challenges

Dr. Papazoglou’s Electronic Book – Bionanotechnology – available from the Synthesis Digital Library

Important Key words in Drug Delivery and Nanotechnology:

Nasal and transdermal drug delivery, Injectable drugs, Implantable delivery systems, Nanocapsules, Nanoparticles, Nanovehicles, Nanomedicine, Oral drug delivery system, Controlled drug delivery, Cancer nanotechnology

Copyrights/Intellectual Property

Copyright
Drexel University Libraries: Copyright and Fair Use

Biomedical Devices

FDA documents for regulated industry
FDA’s Search Guidance Database
Latest FDA Medical Devices approvals
FDA Medwatch-Medical Product Safety Information
FDA Medical Devices – Stent
FDA – Center for Devices and Radiological Health – Index of Consumer Topics
510(K) overview
FDA Device Advice
FDA Approval Process
FDA Drug Approval Process
A Roadmap to Medical Device and Instrumentation Pedigree
Just the Facts – A series of FDA information sheets (includes fact sheets on drugs and medical devices among others)
FDA – Search Medical Devices in releasable 501(k) database
Cardiovascular Device Liability week
Medical Device Law Weekly
Devices@FDA – a catalog of approved medical devices
Medical Device safety Guidelines
Testimony on FDA’s Medical Device Program by Michael Friedman
Medical Device Reporting
FDA-Office of In Vitro Diagnostic Device (OIVD) Evaluation
IEC 60601-1 Primer, by Leonard Eisner, Robert M. Brown and Dan Modi, as published in “Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry
Medical Devices Directive

Books on Medical Devices

Using medical devic* as a keyword in the Online catalog.
Books on Reserve – Biomaterials II
Books on Reserve – Biomaterials I and Biomaterials II

Selected Biomedical Ebooks, drug delivery reports and datababases

Important Biomedical Ebooks and Databases
Devices@FDA – a catalog of approved medical devices
Recently Approved Medical devices by FDA
Medical Device Safety
Winning Drug Delivery Strategies: Maximising product performance through new technologies
(Note: (Note: Search in ‘Business Insights’ database and use keyword ‘drug delivery’ to locate this and other reports on drug delivery)
Innovation in Drug Delivery: The future of nanotechnology and non-invasive protein delivery
(Note: (Note: Search in ‘Business Insights’ database and use keyword ‘drug delivery’ to locate this and other reports on drug delivery)

Drexel University Resources

Drexel Biomedical Technology Entrepreneurship
Drexel Biomed Technology Portfolio
Drexel Biomed Translational Research Program
Technology Commercialization at Drexel

Research Guide on Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Resources

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