Construction of Common TCM Academic Patent Database

VernacularTitle:常用中药学术性专利数据库建设
Author: Fang TAN ; Xia YAO ; Haibo LIU ; Yong PENG
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: TCM; patent; database; application direction
From: World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2013;(6):1262-1267
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: There is rich scientific information in the traditional Chinese medicine ( TCM ) patents . However , few of them have been efficiently utilized by the academic researchers for a long time . In this paper , TCM patent literatures from 1992 to 2011 were collected by retrieving with SooPat patent searching engine . A total of 638 TCM entries have been indexed, which are consistent with the index in the Modern Chinese Materia Medica. The patents with special academic values were manually screened , and were finally stored in an Access database . A survey on the filed patents was outlined . The work provided a new information resource for the TCM researchers. And it was important to promote the effective use of TCM patents.