1. Protecting healthcare inventions and investment: challenges for patent regimes
Purpose of this document is to provide readers with a glimpse of new developments in field of healthcare patents. We have compiled this document from reported facts and our sources are also given herein.
Innovation in life sciences is a key driver of human wellbeing. However, the efforts required to bring new drugs, devices and other healthcare technologies to market are increasingly burdensome from both the scientific and investment perspectives.
It is increasingly difficult to identify risks to patients’ health. Regulatory agencies worldwide tend to set stricter requirements for scientific evidence of the safety and efficacy of new drugs and devices, as biotechnology, information technology, electronics and nanotechnology converge in healthcare solutions that were previously unimaginable. Personalised and telemetric medicine, gene therapy and immediate non-invasive diagnostics are all technical realities, but difficult to handle in practice. The result is that the investment required to bring such new technologies to market is also increasing, while the risks are inherently higher in terms of the time and effort required to achieve sufficient sales.
2. Why use patents as technology indicator?
Patents provide clear idea of number of players in market for a particular technology and key interest areasof all players.
Patent data provides an accurate understanding of problems a particular invention is aiming to resolve.
Patent data helps to understand how technology has changed over the years. For example, patent data can provide evidence of what technical domains were being researched into a decade ago as compared to technical domains being researched today.
Such a comparison helps in mapping out progress of a technology, knowledge externalities and cross industry innovation prospects
All the above mentioned points barely scratch the surface of ocean that is patent data analysis
In this report we aim to present few exemplary conclusions that we could draw from a detailed analysis of nanobottle technology.
3. Rare Nano Structures - Nanovolcanoes
Purpose of this document is to provide readers with a glimpse of some rare nanostructures.
We have compiled this document from reported facts and our sources are also given herein. This document is first in series of Rare Nanostructures or less known nanoparticles overviews, which we would present for our readers.
All of us understand that nanotechnology is not a new product, but a potential enhancement to nearly all existing products. Numerous materials can be engineered into nanoparticles, using small clusters of atoms of gold, silver, iron, zinc, silica, titanium dioxide, etc. Carbon is another material used and can be made into hollow balls or tubes of atoms known as fullerenes. Breaking these materials down to the nanoparticle stages brings about new properties. For example, silver at this nanoparticle stage is very effective at killing microbes and keeping medical and food appliances hygienic; iron, on the other hand, has been found to be very effective at removing pollution from contaminated land. Scientists are discovering more and more uses for the technology around the world and are looking to bring many of these products to market.
4. Bismuth Nanoparticles - Technology Overview
Patents provide clear idea of number of players in market for a particular technology
Patent data provides an accurate understanding of technical domains wherein a particular technology has branched into
Patent data helps to understand how technology has changed over the years. for example, patent data can provide evidence of what technical domains were being researched into a decade ago as compared to technical domains being researched today.
Such a comparison helps in mapping out progress of a technology, knowledge externalities and cross industry innovation prospects
All the above mentioned points barely scratch the surface of ocean that is patent data analysis
In this report we aim to present few exemplary conclusions that we could draw from a detailed analysis of bismuth nanoparticle technology.
5. Cubosomes - Technology Overview
Patents provide clear idea of number of players in market for a particular technology and key interestareas of all players.
Patent data provides an accurate understanding of problems a particular invention is aiming to resolve.
Patent data helps to understand how technology has changed over the years. For example, patent data can provide evidence of what technical domains were being researched into a decade ago as compared to technical domains being researched today.
Such a comparison helps in mapping out progress of a technology, knowledge externalities and cross industry innovation prospects
All the above mentioned points barely scratch the surface of ocean that is patent data analysis
In this report we aim to present few exemplary conclusions that we could draw from a detailed analysis of cubosome technology.