first of all , accept my congrats for your excellent success, hope you handsomely encash on your achievement .Best course would be to have patent first , then publication , but you need to ensure that what you are claiming has been tested following a standard procedure. you can publish later on ..Patent , you can have for different countries as well..

directly you cannot get patent by identifying compounds only through GC MS.you may follow some standard procdures and many more works must be done.. for publication point of view its ok..... 

GC/MS gives percentage i.e .it may be 93 % or 79 %this compound , at first instance you have to get all compounds separate homogeneously and then to  characterize  them through other methods also to ensure it's  identity and then  follow up  accordingly.

 I agree with everyone.

You can patent it first before publication. But before that, you have to do a lot of analysis with the compound. Compare with the MS library. If it is a known plant check the literature for the known bioactive compounds been listed. Just with numbers, you can not do the patenting or publication. Check the Medicinal plant's volumes and other resource centres before you proceed further. Congrats and Good Luck

Thanks to All

I think i should go for publication at this stage. Can i used this data for patent too by using standards after the publication.?

First analyse whether the phytochemicals are novel. If the plant from which you have extracted oil is new, and if your extract has any commercial value then think of patenting. Otherwise simply publish in journal like JEOR (http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tjeo20/current)

You are claiming that 50 numbers of compounds that you have isolated from plant has got novelty based on your GCMS study. My suggestion at this point is that you should carry out NMR study of those compounds (if not done). Then you will have an idea on the structure of those compounds, next you search literature about these compounds and try to establish their novelty based on bioactivity. 

Secondly, as far as patent is concerned, natural products cannot be patented as such, but you can patent these compounds if  you could synthesize them artificially. The important point to be remember at this stage that the artificially synthesized compound should mimic the properties of the natural compound.

To be able to claim the novelty of your natural products, you have to provide their chemical structures and I believe that only one characteristic technic is unfortunately not enough. The NMR analyses are of high importance to convince a Chemist on the chemical structures. You could add other analytical techniques such as IR or UV. You may also need to check the optical index or refractive index etc.  

From your question I understood that you have identified 50 novel compounds from the plants on the basis of GC-MS analysis. You would have not isolated them. For the patent filing, you have to work a lot  for isolation & then for identification as suggested by previous researchers using IR, NMR, MS. The reproducible results will help you to go for filing patent. At present ,You can proceed for publication.Good luck.

It is practically impossible to patent components of volatile oil based on GCMS data. So at the present state publication will be better. You are saying that these are novel compounds, which is very difficult at my present understanding. If it is really so go for formulations such as insect repellent or antibacterial and volatile oils normally shows such activity , you can patent them.

The claim of new compound based on only GC-MC identification and library match is not even qualify for publication in peer reviewed SCI journals. Detailed study of  structure characterization and novelty claim of new structure or  new source based on databases e.g. CAS, Scopus, SCIFINDER, KEGG, etc would be required for publication in reputed journal. I think your present findings  are very preliminary.

This is interesting to know. It is very important to purify them, establish their chemical structure, physico-chemical properties and bio-chemical activity. These will help in proper classification of the compounds. Without proper classification and chemical activity, it will be difficult to accept such results as new discoveries. The best option now is to select scholarly peer-reviewed journals and send a few of the work for publication. Comments from reviewers will help to guide you on the way forward. When they are published, they will count for you, in preparation for seeking for patent right. Congrats and good luck.

Dear Shazia

First of all, good work. I was wondering how could you get sure that these identified compounds (50) are novel?! And is so, this can be only by comparing their mass fragmentation pattern with a previously published data e.i., NIST. You may have these components as a new source, I mean these compounds are firstly isolated from your plant species but it were isolated before from any other plants. Usually it is not easy to have neither publication nor patent for such results. You should have good activity and then go further for structure activity relationship to clarify the value from you work.

Hope you the best. 

Natural products are not able to be patented until or unless suitable modifications with synthetic strategy. Otherwise if some of the composition if biologically active can be filed for patent as formulation. Or if the compounds are of high importance commercially then its possible to make a process or method patent.

it is hard to conclude that identified compounds  are novel only based on GC-MS report. because GC-MS will match the mass of volatile and semi volatile compounds present in your crude plant extract with already existing compounds in library, then how it would be novel. you have to go for successive extraction of plant with different solvents usually nonpolar to polar. evaluate their biological activity. then go for column chromatography with which solvent shows best activity and isolate individual compounds, elucidate the structure with the help of spectral data (MS, C-13 NMR, proton NMR and FT-IR) find out the promising molecule by performing biological activity of individual molecule. go for patent search. if it is new, you can apply for process (isolation and/or formulation) patent,  if it is existing molecule, you can go for good publication. natural products are not patentable. all the best. 

Congratulations, all previous researcher's advises are worth to follow. In my view you should work simultaneously like publication, deciding physico-chemical properties, structures etc. and pre clinical laboratory studies in vitro or vivo- on cell lines or animals to asses the actions and safety, this will be a team work involving related expert scientists.

First of all let me congratulate you for such a fabulous work....

I believe that instead of patenting where an individual is benefited, let you go for publication so that public gets benefited. You may earn huge sums after patenting these isolated phytoceuticals, but once you publish them, the young scientists will benefit and which ultimately will benefit our country.......

That is my feeling, I may be wrong......

Thanks Mr. Younis and Mr. Gandidhas for your precious suggestions. I will consider them. 

Regards

I will advise that you confirmed the identified compounds with other methods of analysis to ascertain your claims. Then, try to publish in reputable journals.