A crucial benchmark to track for the cord blood market is the number and type of cord blood related patents that have been issued.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has a patent analysis tool that offers a “Full Text and Image Database Search.” The database includes information about all American patents, from the first patent issued in 1790 to the most recent issue week.1 The text of patents issued from January 1976 to the present is fully searchable, including bibliographic data, such as the inventor’s name, the patent’s title, and the assignee’s name; the abstract; the full description of the invention; and the claims.2 [Read more…]
