Orange Book Companion: Description

Why Subscribe?

Why should you pay for a subscription to the Orange Book Companion Online service or Flash Drive when the FDA offers the Electronic Orange Book (EOB) for free?

Because we start where the EOB leaves off, and add information from six additional sources to save you time (and thus money) when doing Orange Book research.

Here is a short summary of how we differ from the EOB and other online Orange Book subscription sites:

focus solely on patent and exclusivity information - so if you are just interested in patents and exclusivities we charge you less than other sites and help you avoid information overload)
each patent number is a link to the patent text
individual, easy-to-read tables for each product
we publish a "What's New?" file each month (example) that describes the changes to patents and exclusivity since the previous month
less duplication than the EOB. The Orange Book Companion combines drug strengths that have identical patent and exclusivity information into a single table. The FDA's EOB has a separate table of patent and exclusivity data for each strength of a drug.
arrange products in six different ways

Tradename
Generic Name
Company
Drug Classes
Next-to-expire patent for every drug in year-by-year tables ("Full Expirations" list)
Next-to-expire compound, composition or polymorph patent for every drug that has one in year-by-year tables ("Condensed Expirations" list)

the title of each patent is provided, and the types of claims in each patent are described
indexes of drugs by class from the FDA's "Established Pharmaceutical Classes" list and the USP are provided
extended patents are in bold italics, and the duration of the extension is provided
products for which there is an approved generic (despite their having patents or exclusivity in the Orange Book) are tagged
full Exclusivity Code and Use Code descriptions are directly shown in the tables
we eliminate confusion about which exclusivity has received a Pediatric Extension by tagging the exclusivity description with "PED" and adding six months to its expiration date
maintain indexes of all tradenames (example), generic names and companies that have at least one patent or exclusivity listed in the Orange Book
- for a product with multiple active ingredients, the product can be found by looking in the generic name index for any of its active ingredients
Reference Listed Drug information is included with all subscriptions:

Tables of Reference Listed Drugs sorted by tradename

Tables of Reference Listed Drugs sorted by generic name

Tables of Reference Listed Drugs sorted by Therapeutic Equivalence (TE) Code and listed in tradename order

Tables of Reference Listed Drugs sorted by TE Code and listed in generic name order

Monthly "What's New in Reference Listed Drugs" (Example)

In all the above Refernce Listed Drug tables, each Reference Listed Drug that has an unexpired patent or exclusivity is linked directly to that product's patent and exclusivity information

Orange Book Companion Online subscription serivice: you are given a user ID and password to access the Orange Book Companion's premium data through our web site. Access to patent text and images, and to detailed NDA information, is provided by links to the USPTO's and FDA's web sites, respectively. The account may be used by everyone in your company who shares a common Intranet with the person who ordered the subscription. See the "Terms and Conditions" for the details.

Orange Book Companion Flash Drive subscription service : Macintosh and Windows compatible. No fancy software needed, just a web browser and the free Adobe Acrobat(R) Reader.

Subscribers to a "base" subscription receive a new OBC Flash Drive each month for twelve months. A "base" subscription must be ordered before any "additional" subscriptions at the lower price. An "additional" subscription will expire in the same month as its corresponding "base" subscription. So later purchased "additiional" subscriptions may not receive twelve OBC Flash Drives. For example, if a "base" subscription is purchased and the first OBC Flash Drive is based upon Volume 38, Supplment 10 of the Orange Book, the twelfth (and last) OBC Flash Drive provided under that "base" subscription will be based upon Volume 39, Supplement 9 of the Orange Book. If an "additional" OBC Flash Drive subscription is purchased, the last OBC Flash Drive provided under that subscription will also be the one based upon Volume 39, Supplement 9 of the Orange Book.

Nearly everything accessible from the OBC Online sevice is accessible from the OBC Flash Drive without an internet connection. Each OBC Flash Drive contains:

The OBC Flash Drive provides great portability, and makes the information available faster and more reliably since you do not have to worry about access problems at the USPTO or FDA sites (for extreme speed, you may copy the contents of the OBC Flash Drive to a computer or tablet). Alternatively, you may upload the contents of an OBC Flash Drive to your organization's Intranet. Using the OBC Flash Drive can reduce your bandwidth usage at the USPTO. If you are not aware of it, they will block companies who use too much bandwidth. (See the second bullet-point in the notices at the USPTO Database).

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