Berks A H
American Cyanamid Co., Medical Research Division, Pearl River, NY 10965.
Trends Biotechnol. 1994 Sep;12(9):352-64. doi: 10.1016/0167-7799(94)90036-1.
Patents represent an important source of scientific and legal information. Unfortunately, many of the major sources of biotechnology scientific information (for example, Medline and Biosis) do not index patents. It is probable that information of importance to the field of biotechnology reported in patents is not available in the scientific-journal literature. This article gives a brief overview of patent law from the standpoint of the technical information content of patents, and provides a survey of relevant sources of patent information for retrospective searching and for current awareness.
专利是科学和法律信息的重要来源。不幸的是，许多生物技术科学信息的主要来源（例如，医学索引数据库和生物学文摘数据库）并不收录专利。专利中报道的对生物技术领域具有重要意义的信息很可能无法在科学期刊文献中获取。本文从专利的技术信息内容的角度简要概述了专利法，并提供了相关专利信息来源的综述，用于回溯检索和实时跟踪。
