I have an open question that is not often asked, as a biochemist I'm working on phytochemistry field and have from time to time problems to solve, sometimes trying to solve a problem may lead to invent a new methodology that had never used before, my question is how can we patent such Discovery as US patent ? and how much do we have to pay for that ? thank you very much.
Dear Hicham Mechqoq ,
You asked a very important question that should be of concern to all scientists. You see some scientists are workaholic. They keep working everyday, morning and night, year after year, and yet do not get credit for what they do. To put it mildly, they are not even noticed. Maybe simply because they do not care or know how to get credit for what they do. Even some stop half way and do not take their research to completion. Again, maybe the intended goal or mindset is to have 1000 publications yet without a single patent. Sometimes, it is part of their work or modified version of it that someone else is receiving credit for. This is hard to believe you know. Even the publishers takes advantage of this. They accept their papers very fast, put it under subscription and make tens of thousands from it. Then the only honour they accord the scientist is to call him or her a professor.
To solve this problem, I came up with a concept about 2yrs ago when I was designing the contents of our Elsevier book on Phytochemicals as Lead Compounds for New Drug Discovery. Then I purposely included a chapter to present the realities of drug acceptance criteria. It did deliberately. Now I am also working on another book that will present information about patenting and grant writing. All this needs to change. Our children should know this even before they become graduate students. Thanks.
Chapter: FDA drug candidacy acceptance criteria and steps: problems and way forward. Written by Professor Shahira M. Ezzat and Drs. Mahitb H. El Bishbishy, Angelo Mark P Walag and Andrew Mtewa
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Collaborative-Book-Project-on-Phytochemistry-Molecular-Biology-Biochemistry-Nutrition-Toxicology
https://www.elsevier.com/books/phytochemicals-as-lead-compounds-for-new-drug-discovery/egbuna/978-0-12-817890-4
Regards,
Egbuna
Dear Hicham Mechqoq ,
You asked a very important question that should be of concern to all scientists. You see some scientists are workaholic. They keep working everyday, morning and night, year after year, and yet do not get credit for what they do. To put it mildly, they are not even noticed. Maybe simply because they do not care or know how to get credit for what they do. Even some stop half way and do not take their research to completion. Again, maybe the intended goal or mindset is to have 1000 publications yet without a single patent. Sometimes, it is part of their work or modified version of it that someone else is receiving credit for. This is hard to believe you know. Even the publishers takes advantage of this. They accept their papers very fast, put it under subscription and make tens of thousands from it. Then the only honour they accord the scientist is to call him or her a professor.
To solve this problem, I came up with a concept about 2yrs ago when I was designing the contents of our Elsevier book on Phytochemicals as Lead Compounds for New Drug Discovery. Then I purposely included a chapter to present the realities of drug acceptance criteria. It did deliberately. Now I am also working on another book that will present information about patenting and grant writing. All this needs to change. Our children should know this even before they become graduate students. Thanks.
Chapter: FDA drug candidacy acceptance criteria and steps: problems and way forward. Written by Professor Shahira M. Ezzat and Drs. Mahitb H. El Bishbishy, Angelo Mark P Walag and Andrew Mtewa
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Collaborative-Book-Project-on-Phytochemistry-Molecular-Biology-Biochemistry-Nutrition-Toxicology
https://www.elsevier.com/books/phytochemicals-as-lead-compounds-for-new-drug-discovery/egbuna/978-0-12-817890-4
Regards,
Egbuna
thank you very much, dear Chukwuebuka Egbuna , for the answer and for your shared files, it is true that we are more working than trying to get credit, but sometimes we need credit to get financials for more projects and more resources to work better.
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