Changes
==Objective==
'''Primary objective of the study was to prepare perform a technology landscape prior art search on usage of interferon for the treatment of melanoma.'''
To achieve our objective we performed following steps:
*Create Created a multi level taxonomy to categorize the patents using interferon for melanoma treatment
*Mark Marked out relevant IPC, ECLA, US classes and Japanese F-term available for technology in question.
*Identify Identified and club clubbed relevant keywords with classes to extract relevant patents.
*Check Checked for patents in US, EP, PCT, JP, Great Britain, and German patent records
*Perform Performed MPI-INPADOC search which cover bibliographic data for 71 countries and legal status for 42 countries
*Analyze Analyzed the patents and prepare a dashboard prepared an IPmap covering relevant patents for client usage.
==Overview==
[[Image:taxonomy melanoma mod1.jpg|700px|center|thumb| '''Taxonomy''']]
===Class codes used in searches===
|align = "center"|4240857
|align = "center"|Subject matter in which the interferon is alpha or leukocyte interferon.
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==Intellectual property==
===Search strategy and concept===
Date of Search: 1836 to October 26, 2009
Database used: Micropatent - Include extensive full text and MPI-Inpadoc searches
===Search in Micropatent full text===
Micro patent full text search allow search in fulltext of US, EP, PCT, Great Britain, and German patent records as well as the front page of JP documents. US, EP, and DE are covered at first publication and when granted.
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
|align = "center" bgcolor = "#99CCFF"|'''Sr. No.'''
|align = "center" bgcolor = "#99CCFF"|'''Search concept'''
|align = "center" bgcolor = "#99CCFF"|'''Search Scope'''
|align = "center" bgcolor = "#99CCFF"|'''Search reason'''
|align = "center" bgcolor = "#99CCFF"|'''Class Code (IPC,US,ECLA)'''
|align = "center" bgcolor = "#99CCFF"|'''Search query'''
|align = "center" bgcolor = "#99CCFF"|'''No. of hits'''
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|align = "center" bgcolor = "#C0C0C0"|'''1'''
|align = "center"|Interferon for treating Melanoma
|align = "center"|Title, Abstract and Claims
|align = "center"|Specific classes of interferon AND melanoma keywords
|align = "center"|A61K003821<nowiki>*</nowiki> OR C07K014555 OR C07K001456 OR C07K014565 OR C07K001457 OR C07K014715G OR 4240854 OR 4242811 OR 42400141 OR 514889 OR 530351 OR 930142
|align = "center"|(Melanoma OR (Skin NEAR3 (cancer OR carcinoma OR tumor)) OR (Melanocyte<nowiki>*</nowiki> NEAR3 (cancer OR carcinoma OR tumor)))
|align = "center"|576
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|align = "center" bgcolor = "#C0C0C0"|'''2'''
|align = "center"|Interferon for treating Melanoma
|align = "center"|Title, Abstract and Claims
|align = "center"|Broad classes of interferon AND melanoma, interferon keywords
|align = "center"|A61K003819 OR C07K001452 OR 4240851 OR 4240855 OR 4240856 OR 4240857 OR A61P003500
|align = "center"|(Melanoma OR (Skin NEAR3 (cancer OR carcinoma OR tumor)) OR (Melanocyte<nowiki>*</nowiki> NEAR3 (cancer OR carcinoma OR tumor)))
|align = "center"|756
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|align = "center" bgcolor = "#C0C0C0"|'''3'''
|align = "center"|'''Final query'''
|align = "center" colspan = "4"|'''1 OR 2'''
|align = "center"|1019 records<br>'''571 unique records'''
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===Search in Micropatent MPI-INPADOC===
Micrpatent MPI-INPADOC search bibliographic data for 71 countries and legal status for 42. Only those patents were analyzed which have English title and/or abstract.
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
|align = "center" bgcolor = "#99CCFF"|'''Sr. No.'''
|align = "center" bgcolor = "#99CCFF"|'''Search concept'''
|align = "center" bgcolor = "#99CCFF"|'''Search Scope'''
|align = "center" bgcolor = "#99CCFF"|'''Search reason'''
|align = "center" bgcolor = "#99CCFF"|'''Class search'''
|align = "center" bgcolor = "#99CCFF"|'''Search query'''
|align = "center" bgcolor = "#99CCFF"|'''No. of hits'''
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|align = "center" bgcolor = "#C0C0C0"|'''1'''
|align = "center"|Interferon for treating Melanoma
|align = "center"|Title and Abstract
|align = "center"|Specific IPC classes of interferon AND melanoma keywords
|align = "center"|A61K03821 OR C07K014555 OR C07K01456 OR C07K014565 OR C07K01457
|align = "center"|(Melanoma OR (Skin NEAR3 (cancer OR carcinoma OR tumor)) OR (Melanocyte<nowiki>*</nowiki> NEAR3 (cancer OR carcinoma OR tumor)))
|align = "center"|174
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|align = "center" bgcolor = "#C0C0C0"|'''2'''
|align = "center"|Interferon for treating Melanoma
|align = "center"|Title and Abstract
|align = "center"|Broad IPC classes of interferon AND melanoma, interferon keywords
|align = "center"|A61K03819 OR C07K01452 OR A61P03500
|align = "center"|(IFN<nowiki>*</nowiki> OR <nowiki>*</nowiki>IFN OR interferon<nowiki>*</nowiki> OR <nowiki>*</nowiki>interferon OR huIFN) AND (Melanoma OR (Skin NEAR3 (cancer OR carcinoma OR tumor)) OR (Melanocyte<nowiki>*</nowiki> NEAR3 (cancer OR carcinoma OR tumor)))
|align = "center"|484
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|align = "center" bgcolor = "#C0C0C0"|'''3'''
|align = "center"|Interferon for treating Melanoma
|align = "center"|Title and Abstract
|align = "center"|Specific ECLA classes of interferon AND melanoma keywords
|align = "center"|A61K03821<nowiki>*</nowiki> OR C07K014555 OR C07K01456 OR C07K014565 OR C07K01457 OR C07K014715G
|align = "center"|(Melanoma OR (Skin NEAR3 (cancer OR carcinoma OR tumor)) OR (Melanocyte<nowiki>*</nowiki> NEAR3 (cancer OR carcinoma OR tumor)))
|align = "center"|102
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|align = "center" bgcolor = "#C0C0C0"|'''4'''
|align = "center"|Interferon for treating Melanoma
|align = "center"|Title and Abstract
|align = "center"|Broad ECLA classes of interferon AND melanoma, interferon keywords
|align = "center"|A61K03819 OR C07K01452 OR A61P03500
|align = "center"|(IFN<nowiki>*</nowiki> OR <nowiki>*</nowiki>IFN OR interferon<nowiki>*</nowiki> OR <nowiki>*</nowiki>interferon OR huIFN) AND (Melanoma OR (Skin NEAR3 (cancer OR carcinoma OR tumor)) OR (Melanocyte<nowiki>*</nowiki> NEAR3 (cancer OR carcinoma OR tumor)))
|align = "center"|9
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|align = "center" bgcolor = "#C0C0C0"|'''5'''
|align = "center" colspan = "4"|'''Final query'''
|align = "center"|'''1 OR 2 OR 3 OR 4'''
|align = "center"|587 hits<br>'''232 unique records'''
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==Sample patents==
