Patenting pharmacophore models have been an issue for some = time.=A0 There are a number of patents that are still pending, but there are also some = that are issued.=A0 Those patents that are issued are not just the = pharmacophore model itself, but the model in conjunction with other = inventions.

There is a nice, but somewhat dated discussion on this = at:

Pieraccioli D.=A0 "Patenting the pharmacophore", = Curr. Drug. Disc. 2002, October, pp = 40-43

Also some mention on this in my monologue, where I list some of = the patents that are pending, and some that are = issued:

G=FCner, O.F.=A0 "The impact of pharmacophore modeling in = drug design," IDrugs, 2005 8(7), 567-572.

Osman F, G=FCner, PhD

Principal, Turquoise Consulting

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Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 10:12 AM
To: Guner, Osman F
Subject: CCL: software pattents in chemistry?

Sent to CCL by: Egon Willighagen = [e.willighagen]_[science.ru.nl]

Hi all,

Today I learned that software pattents have hit chemistry, chemoinformatics in

this case:

http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=3DEPODOC&IDX=3DWO200500174= 3&F=3D0

I have no idea on the impact of this pattent, but was wondering = if others saw

more software pattents in chemistry, and wether software = pattents in

chemistry affected work in our field. =

Anyone who has experience with software pattents in = cheminformatics,

computational chemistry and the = likes?

Egon

e.willighagen++science.ru.nl

PhD student on Molecular Representation in = Chemometrics

Radboud = University Nijmegen

Blog: = http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/

http://www.cac.science.ru.nl/people/egonw/

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