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Brief Introduction of China Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Patent Database
1. The "China Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Patent
Database¨English Version contains 12,024 deeply indexed
records of China TCM patent literature with 31,283 TCM formulas
in Chinese. The 12,024 Chinese language records cover the
time period from April 1985 to 2002. The database focuses
on bibliographic type data related to TCM.
2. The China TCM Patent Database (CTCMPD) was established by Patent Data Research and Development Center (PDC), a part of The Intellectual Property Publishing House of State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of China. The original purpose of creating this database was to meet the increasing need of patent examination. The database has already been used by patent examiners of SIPO. Actually, CTCMPD has collected available information on all aspects of drugs including development, synthesis, evaluation, manufacture and applications. The unique indexing on all those information enables you to search quickly and precisely for new development in your field, or from key competitors.
3. The China TCM Patent database allows for three methods of searching. First, the "Quick Search" facility provides a simple search interface with a text search for the entire contents of the database. Second, the "Advanced Search" facility provides for nested Boolean searches and field searches. Third, a "Formula Search" facility allows for two different types of searches according to TCM formulas. The first type is a "Formula Logic Search" which provides logic combination and Boolean searches of TCM formulas. The second type is a "Formula Similarity Search" which provides TCM formula similarities as its search results and is particularly popular with patent examiners at SIPO. The Database allows users to save their search histories.
4. The database provides statistic facility for search results by the fields of Applicant (AP), Inventor (INR), Main International Classification (IC1), Secondary International Classification (IC2), International Patent Classifications (IC) (searching for IC1 and IC2 together), Country/Province Code of applicant (PAC).
5. The data contained in the China TCM Patent Database both in Chinese version and in English Demo version are provided in the following 29 fields:
1. Title
(TI)
2. Abstract
(AB)
3. Application
Date (AD)
4. Application
Number (AP)
5. Publication
Date (PD)
6. Publication
Number (PN)
7. Applicant
(PA)
8. Applicant
Address (ADDR)
9. Applicant
Country/Province Code (PAC)
10. Inventor
Name (INR)
11. Priority
(PRN)
12. Main
International Patent Classification (IC1)
13. International
Patent Classification (IC) (searching for IC1 and IC2 together)
14. Secondary
International Patent Classification (IC2)
15. Biological
Process (BIO)
16. Chemical
Process (CHE)
17. Analytical
Process (ANA)
18. Extraction
Process (EXT)
19. Preparing
Process (PHY)
20. Formulation
Process (GAL)
21. TCM
Formula Composition (MIX)
22. New
Therapeutic Use (NUS)
23. Index
Terms (IT) (used to search ANA, EXT, BIO, CHE, PHY,GAL,
MIX, NUS together)
24. Therapeutic
Effect (THEF)
25. Side
Effect (TOXI)
26. Diagnostic
Effect (DIAG)
27. Similar
Effect (DINT)
28. Interactive
Effect (ANEF)
29. Effect
(EFF) (used to search THEF, TOXI, DIAG, DINT, ANEF together)
6. The China TCM Patent Database additionally provides a "TCM Dictionary" as an assistant tool for users to locate TCM names. It allows them to search for TCM names, and then transfer these names to the China TCM Patent Bibliographic Database or TCM Formula Database in order to search related TCM patents or TCM formulas. The "TCM Dictionary " can be accessed by Chinese standard names, Chinese synonyms, Chinese PINYIN, English drug names, Latin drug names and Latin plant/animal/mineral name.
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