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Modern Approaches to Patent Exploration in Medicinal Chemistry

From Early Novelty Checks to Idea Generation

Thursday, December 3 4:00 PM CET · 10:00 AM EST · 12:00 AM JST Online · Free
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About the event

Patent literature is one of the earliest and richest sources of information in small-molecule drug discovery, but it is also one of the hardest actually to use.

For medicinal chemists doing patent exploration, competitive intelligence, or project scoping, the bottleneck is rarely whether the data exists. It is whether you can efficiently browse hundreds of complex molecules, spot what is chemically meaningful, and trust that you have fully covered the relevant prior art.

Join us for a comprehensive session that bridges the gap between raw patent data and active compound design with modern technology!

 

What to expect?

  • A plenary talk on how medicinal chemists now approach idea generation and early novelty checks, and what has changed in these workflows 

  • A live workflow demo of patent SAR exploration in Discngine's Ideation Analytics, powered by GOSTAR® patent data

  • A roundtable where industry experts discuss how they efficiently navigate novelty and prior art and manage competitive intelligence in their own pipelines, followed by an interactive audience Q&A.


Who should attend?

This event is designed for everyone working at the intersection of chemistry and intellectual property, including medicinal chemists and lead optimization teams seeking white space and new ideas, computational chemists and cheminformaticians interested in the workflows behind patent exploration, and patent information professionals.

Speakers

Plenary speaker

Christopher

Christopher Southan

Honorary Professor at The University of Edinburgh

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Speaker to be announced

Panelists

Rishi

Rishi Gupta

Director, Data Science at Novartis Biomedical Research

Christophe

Christophe Poitevin

Project Manager, Medicinal Chemistry at Servier

Morten

Morten Langgård

IP Information Specialist, Global Patents at Lundbeck

Nishanth

Nishanth Kandepedu

Principal Product Manager at Excelra

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More speakers to be announced soon...

Agenda

Time (CET) Session
4:00 – 4:05 pm Welcome
4:05 – 4:25 pm Plenary talk: Christopher Southan
Talk title to be announced
4:25 – 4:35 pm Live demonstration: Riccardo Martini
Patent SAR exploration in Ideation Analytics, powered by GOSTAR® patent data
4:35 – 4:55 pm Roundtable: Rishi Gupta (Chair), Christophe Poitevin, Morten Langgård, and Nishanth Kandepedu
Keeping pace: fresh patents, generative chemistry and automated novelty checks
4:55 – 5:00 pm Audience Q&A and wrap-up

Join us!

Registration is free. You will receive the Teams link by email and the recording after the event, even if you can’t join live.

Thursday, December 3, 2026
4:00 PM CET · 10:00 AM EST · 9:00 AM CST · 12:00 AM JST
Online, 60 minutes
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