I was thinking about putting together a list of resources for chemistry students who want to learn more about patent searching and setting up alerts, but I think most chemists already get at least a bit of exposure to patents… unlike the biologists. 🤷🏻♀️ #chemtoots #chemtwitter #chemiverse
@steph This is 10 years old, but still provides a good overview of the basics: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/chapter/bk9781849735513-00053/978-1-84973-551-3 Chapter 5 (p 142) has a tiny section on Markush, but not enough for what people should know.
@betschart thanks! this is still more recent than what ACS/CAS uses! 2002… https://www.cas.org/sites/default/files/documents/what-every-chemist-should-know-about-patents.pdf
@steph Your ancient ACS Material just made me think of the ACS Style Guide, or as it is currently called "ACS Guide to Scholarly communication". Section 1.9 is on patents and contains a fair bit of useful info.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/book/10.1021/acsguide
@betschart Nothing specific, just some basic info and links to resources for students/early career chemists to learn more about patents, and suggestions for how to set up an alert