For more than 50 years, Derwent™ has been a trusted leader in life sciences – connecting authoritative research applications, exclusive curated patent data and expert IP services to support the commercial success of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies around the world.
Powering life sciences innovation
Patents are vital to the pharmaceutical industry – from identifying new market opportunities and drug discovery, to protecting and enforcing rights. Our solutions deliver the intelligence and technical resources that pharma and biotech companies need to innovate with confidence.
Built by IP experts and data scientists, Derwent Innovation is a market-leading patent research and analytics platform delivering access to globally trusted patents and scientific literature. Our enhanced content, proprietary search and data intelligence technology helps a global community of more than 40,000 innovators and legal professionals find answers to complex questions.
GENESEQ™ is a proprietary database used to easily search and identify biological sequences (DNA, RNA and protein sequences) covered in patents from 56 issuing authorities. Manually annotated to highlight IP context and biological significance, GENESEQ™ allows IP professionals and biologic scientists to spend less time searching and understanding sequence data and easily assess patentability, identify potential infringing patents and track competitor activities.
The Chemical Patent Index enables you to conduct targeted searches of chemical patent data in the Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI) – the most comprehensive database of value-added patent documents published in the world.
Patent Search
Our search team delivers complete, thorough and accurate results to corporations and law firms around the world. This level of intellectual capital is unrivalled – and is one of the many reasons why customers keep returning to Derwent for search projects that truly matter to their clients.
Patent Analytics
The Derwent™ patent analytics team combines industry-leading enhanced data and powerful research and analysis tools with extensive industry knowledge and deep IP expertise to distill the essential information into reliable, digestible, decision-ready reports.