[Ip-health] Indian Patent Searches

[Priti Radhakrishnan]

Dear Friends,

I wanted to share with you the tremendously important
website that
Professor Bhaven Sampat at Columbia University has
launched. For the
past year, he and collaborator Patrick Crosby have
been working to
'program' the Indian Patent Office's journals into a
searchable database.

The ability to search the Indian Patent Office's data
has been greatly
hindered by the lack of such a database. Now, it is
possible for the public to search patent applications
by company name or keyword. It is also possible to see
what patents have been granted to date in India. The
data are based on applications and patents published
from January 2005 onwards (including the "mailbox"
applications) and are updated weekly.

Please visit http://india.bigpatents.org/ to access
this important tool.

If you have feedback on features, particularly any you
would like to
see included in the site, please send an e-mail to
bns3@columbia.edu with the subject line "Indian patent
database".

Best,
Priti Radhakrishnan



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