Department of Chemistry

Semester: Spring 2012-2013 Patent Assignment #

Chemical Literature and Seminar (1420391) Section No.: 11

Course instructor: Dr. Ideisan Abu-Abdoun

I.D. #: -u00031177Name: MadeehaDurrani ============================================================== Q1. Patents are considered as an important information resource for chemists. Explain? Patent information is an important resource for researchers and inventors, entrepreneurs and commercial enterprises, and patent professionals. Patent information can assist users to: Avoid duplicating research and development effort; Determine the patentability of their inventions; Avoid infringing other inventors patents; Estimate the value of their or other inventors patents; Exploit technology from patent applications that have never been granted, are not valid in certain countries, or from patents that are no longer in force; Improve planning for business decisions such as licensing, technology partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions; Identify key trends in specific technical fields of public interest such as those relating to health or to the environment and provide a foundation for policy planning

Q2. Look at US patent given to you in order to answer the following questions.

a. Who is the inventor?

Stig Seen Lund

b. How many claims does the patent make? List one of them. 19 claims c. What reasons do the inventors give for why their invention is useful and important? The patent is about medical fluids, and how they can be used to protect organs used for transplantation, and the inventors give reasonings like they mimic the body fluids and hence they can help sustain organs during or before transplantation, and the organ can then be used for multiple transplantation. d. Who owns the rights to this patent? Vivoline Medical Lab, Lund

Q3. Search on the website to find patents granted on the removal of nicotine from tobacco products (cigars, cigarettes, etc.).

a. How many patents did you find, and what are their titles?
About 5,840 results

Class Definition for Class 131 - TOBACCO - United States Patent ...
Tobacco product manufacturing ... of nicotine containing extracts from tobacco ... cleaning leaf tobacco in combination with the removal of stems ... www.uspto.gov/web/.../uspc131/defs131.htm

Class Definition for Class 426 - FOOD OR EDIBLE MATERIAL ...

Tobacco, for a tobacco product or to a tobacco substitute intended to be smoked or ... Class 426 also specifically provides for the removal of a pesticidal residue.www.uspto.gov/web/.../uspc426/defs426.htm

Removal from Register - January 31, 2013 - United States Patent ...
PRODUCTS & SERVICES . ... R J Reynolds Tobacco Co.,, 950 Reynolds Boulevard, P O Box 1487, Winston-Salem, ... Removal of Registered Practitioners; www.uspto.gov/.../removals2013jan31.jsp

N - Index to the U.S. Patent Classification System

Nicotine ... Biocides containing ..... 514 / 343 Removal from tobacco ..... 131 / 297 Nicotinic Acid ... Information Products Division ... www.uspto.gov/web/patents/.../indexn.htm

Class Definition for Class 19 - TEXTILES: FIBER PREPARATION

... removal of dirt from fibers. ... Tobacco, subclasses 46, 63, 64.1+, ... For information/comments on electronic information products, ... www.uspto.gov/web/.../uspc019/defs019.htm

Class 206: SPECIAL RECEPTACLE OR PACKAGE / U.S. Patent ...

262 for a tobacco product (or pipe) ... Container wherein both igniter and tobaccocontent are exposed by removal or displacement of the same cover element. www.uspto.gov/web/offices/.../def/206.htm

Class 096: GAS SEPARATION: APPARATUS / U.S. Patent Classification ...

... 331 for means for removing or separating a constituent material from tobaccosmoke combined with tobacco products or ... Apparatus for the removal of ... www.uspto.gov/web/offices/.../def/096.htm

Class Definition for Class 15 - BRUSHING, SCRUBBING, AND GENERAL ...

... that is to say, for the removal of foreign matter - by any of the following means ...Tobacco, subclasses 315 and ... , or Product Thereof, ... www.uspto.gov/web/.../uspc015/defs015.htm

Class Definition for Class 206 - SPECIAL RECEPTACLE OR PACKAGE

The recitation of significant claimed tobacco product structure or ... for a "large" plate or sheet container with access means for manual content removal. www.uspto.gov/web/.../uspc206/defs206.htm

Class Definition for Class 606 - SURGERY - United States Patent ...
Subject matter wherein the skin removal means is a cutter which is ... Devices used orally to satisfy a craving for cigarettes or other tobacco products are ... www.uspto.gov/web/.../uspc606/defs606.htm

Class Definition for Class 606 - SURGERY - United States Patent ...
Subject matter wherein the skin removal means is a cutter which is ... Devices used orally to satisfy a craving for cigarettes or other tobacco products are ... www.uspto.gov/web/.../uspc606/defs606.htm

Class Definition for Class 96 - GAS SEPARATION: APPARATUS

... , which may be for removal of the ... constituent material from tobacco smoke combined with tobacco products or disclosed for use with a tobacco ... www.uspto.gov/web/.../uspc096/defs096.htm

Class 249: STATIC MOLDS / U.S. Patent Classification Definitions

131, Tobacco, subclasses 70+ for ... subclasses 74+ for molding apparatus with positiveproduct removal means including means to move mold bottom through upstanding ... www.uspto.gov/web/offices/.../def/249.htm

Class Definition for Class 264 - PLASTIC AND NONMETALLIC ARTICLE ...