{"title":"Patentability challenges associated with emerging pharmaceutical technologies.","authors":"Srishti Aggarwal, Amrish Chandra","doi":"10.4155/ppa-2021-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4155/ppa-2021-0009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>According to the recent patent filing trends, it has been observed that certain pharmaceutical technologies are more popular than others and are commonly referred to as emerging technologies. The emerging technologies in the pharmaceutical sector include artificial intelligence, big data and certain advanced biological therapies such as personalized medicine and stem cell therapy. These trends have various applications in the medicine and healthcare industry. Since these technologies are relatively new and each of them is very unique in its own way, current patent laws are inadequate to deal with the complex challenges associated with them. A brief analysis of the challenges associated with these emerging technologies and their applications is discussed in this paper.</p>","PeriodicalId":20011,"journal":{"name":"Pharmaceutical patent analyst","volume":"10 4","pages":"195-207"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39177129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patent highlights February-March 2021.","authors":"Hermann Am Mucke","doi":"10.4155/ppa-2021-0010","DOIUrl":"10.4155/ppa-2021-0010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A snapshot of noteworthy recent developments in the patent literature of relevance to pharmaceutical and medical research and development.</p>","PeriodicalId":20011,"journal":{"name":"Pharmaceutical patent analyst","volume":"10 4","pages":"183-190"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39155477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patent highlights December 2020-January 2021.","authors":"Hermann Am Mucke","doi":"10.4155/ppa-2021-0005","DOIUrl":"10.4155/ppa-2021-0005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A snapshot of noteworthy recent developments in the patent literature of relevance to pharmaceutical and medical research and development.</p>","PeriodicalId":20011,"journal":{"name":"Pharmaceutical patent analyst","volume":"10 3","pages":"103-110"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38923642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Slobodan M Janković, Nenad Marković, Tanja Luković
{"title":"Treating of focal epilepsy: a patent review.","authors":"Slobodan M Janković, Nenad Marković, Tanja Luković","doi":"10.4155/ppa-2021-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4155/ppa-2021-0008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Focal epilepsy is one of the most frequent specific type of epilepsies, with 30% treatment-resistant patients. There are several directions researchers can follow to improve existing treatment of focal epilepsy: synthesis of new compounds with anticonvulsant activity, repurposing drugs approved for other indications, finding drugs targeted to specific genetic and biochemical defects that underlie focal epilepsy syndromes, development of viral vectors for specific gene therapy, creation of devices and methods for suppression of seizures by electrostimulation and development of methods to increase safety of epilepsy surgery. Improvement of efficacy and safety of current therapies is necessary, as well as developing targeted treatment of genetic epilepsy syndromes that will not only suppress seizures, but stop further epileptogenesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":20011,"journal":{"name":"Pharmaceutical patent analyst","volume":"10 3","pages":"165-173"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38972959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Benjamin Brennecke, Thais Gazzi, Kenneth Atz, Jürgen Fingerle, Pascal Kuner, Torsten Schindler, Guy de Weck, Marc Nazaré, Uwe Grether
{"title":"Cannabinoid receptor type 2 ligands: an analysis of granted patents since 2010.","authors":"Benjamin Brennecke, Thais Gazzi, Kenneth Atz, Jürgen Fingerle, Pascal Kuner, Torsten Schindler, Guy de Weck, Marc Nazaré, Uwe Grether","doi":"10.4155/ppa-2021-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4155/ppa-2021-0002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The G-protein-coupled cannabinoid receptor type 2 (CB<sub>2</sub>R) is a key element of the endocannabinoid (EC) system. EC/CB<sub>2</sub>R signaling has significant therapeutic potential in major pathologies affecting humans such as allergies, neurodegenerative disorders, inflammation or ocular diseases. CB<sub>2</sub>R agonism exerts anti-inflammatory and tissue protective effects in preclinical animal models of cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, liver, kidney, lung and neurodegenerative disorders. Existing ligands can be subdivided into endocannabinoids, cannabinoid-like and synthetic CB<sub>2</sub>R ligands that possess various degrees of potency on and selectivity against the cannabinoid receptor type 1. This review is an account of granted CB<sub>2</sub>R ligand patents from 2010 up to the present, which were surveyed using Derwent Innovation<sup>®</sup>.</p>","PeriodicalId":20011,"journal":{"name":"Pharmaceutical patent analyst","volume":"10 3","pages":"111-163"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39081313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent development of drugs for osteoporosis and anti-cancer agents: a patent analysis.","authors":"Hai-Long Zhang, Yiqian Li","doi":"10.4155/ppa-2021-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4155/ppa-2021-0004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Osteoporosis and cancer are becoming a major public health problem. Some studies have shown that osteoporosis drugs may have anti-cancer effects. To better understand the relationship between drugs for osteoporosis and antineoplastic agents, and to better demonstrate recent developments for patents concerning drugs for osteoporosis, we conducted an analysis of US patents. The results indicated that there was a good correlation between agents for osteoporosis and antineoplastic agents, which indicated that numerous anti-osteoporosis agents displayed antineoplastic activities. Our study was the first one to provide new evidence, through comprehensive analysis, for a correlation between anti-osteoporosis agents and anticancer agents. The present study may open new avenues for developing anticancer drugs and expanding the application role of anti-osteoporosis agents.</p>","PeriodicalId":20011,"journal":{"name":"Pharmaceutical patent analyst","volume":"10 2","pages":"73-82"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25581887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patent highlights October-November 2020.","authors":"Hermann Am Mucke","doi":"10.4155/ppa-2021-0003","DOIUrl":"10.4155/ppa-2021-0003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A snapshot of noteworthy recent developments in the patent literature of relevance to pharmaceutical and medical research and development.</p>","PeriodicalId":20011,"journal":{"name":"Pharmaceutical patent analyst","volume":"10 2","pages":"51-58"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25375469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}