Online
and Flash Drive Subscription Services
from Bruce Pokras' Blazing
Dawn Software
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
Types of annual subscriptions:
There
are two types of annual Orange Book Companion ("OBC") subscription services:
- OBC Online
($295/year)
- OBC Flash Drive
($495/year) for "base" subscription; $145 for "additional"
subscriptions sent to the same contact person which expire in the same
month as the "base" subscription.
Each new subscription comes with a 30-day,
money-back guarantee. See the Terms
and Condiitions for details.
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:
- data files like those in the OBC
Online subscription, except the links in the data files all point to
other files (such as patent text and NDA information) on the flash drive
- the text of every
patent in the Orange Book
- an abridged image file (in Adobe
Acrobat® (.PDF) format) for every patent in the
Orange Book linked from the patent text (abridged images include the
bibliographic page(s), claims, and Certificates of Correction)
- NDA information for every product
that has a patent or exclusivity or is a Referenced Listed Drug.
Thus, the Orange Book Companion
Flash Drive is highly self-contained! (Links within the patent text,
which are provided by the USPTO, will require an internet connection).
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).
Contact:
Please send any questions to Bruce
Pokras at 
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