William M. Murray

126 McMullen Circle

Bear, DE 19701

Email: BILL1A9Z@YAHOO.COM    

Phone: (302) 547-8904

Background - I was the primary chemical structure searcher at E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. Inc for 12 years. I possess expertise in the entire spectrum of chemical searching methods, databases and resources required for a thoroughly comprehensive search on chemical substances, both generic and Markush disclosures, chemical process/preparation as well as chemical formulation patents.  I have experience in searching patents, literature, substances as well as non-traditional data sources and can search an extremely wide scope, using obscure methods and resources as well as traditional ones if necessary.

My experience and expertise includes all types of searching, Domination/Freedom to Operate, Anticipation/Patentability, Validity/Infringement as well as general Background/State of the Art searches. My typical searches during employment at this company were worldwide in scope and very rarely were limited to US patents only. Most patentability searches were of very high complexity, such as search queries with 4-6 pages of R-groups, so I am able to competently perform a search at any level of complexity. My experience includes producing a highly refined, value added search report of only highly relevant references and disclosures.

Specific Skills and Services:

Expert Markush chemical structure searcher, including all STN^® structure databases - pharmaceutical, agrochemical and general chemical, including specific compound databases such as CAS Registry^SM/ CAplus^SM, Beilstein, Derwent Drug File, Derwent World Patents Index^®, CASREACT^® as well as the Markush database MARPAT^®.

Expert using Derwent BCE fragmentation coding in the Derwent World Patents Index^®.

Expert in searching the INPI/Questel Merged Markush Service – file MMS^TM.  

Expert at searching chemical reaction (all databases on STN^® for this purpose including Derwent World Patents Index^® and CAplus^SM, Synthline^®, etc.) databases using both structure searching (such as Casreact^®, DJSMDS, etc.), chemical codes and other searching methods for the process and preparation of compounds.

Highly skilled at other searching methods for non-structure searchable chemical and patent information files on STN^® using chemical nomenclature, keyword searching, patent classes, other chemical coding/indexing systems.

Highly skilled at searching internet patent databases such as Micropatent, USPTO, JPO, CIPO, Esp@cenet and a wide variety of other types of chemical databases on the internet which may disclose chemical substances.

Other Skills and Services:

I have limited experience, including Anticipation/Patentability and Freedom to Operate experience searching polymers and to a greater degree, biosequences (BLAST and other techniques).  I can offer only a general background search of very good comprehensiveness and reasonably due diligence and in these areas if needed with the caveat that this is not my area of expertise. I intend to expand my expertise in the biosequence area in the future.

Disclaimer – I am not affiliated with any organization or service mentioned in this proposal including CAS, STN^®, Thomson, Derwent, Micropatent or Questel Orbit. I am also not affiliated with any chemical biologic or any other corporate organization.