MADISON, WI USA (March 2, 2025) – Porta Sophia, a non-profit psychedelic prior art library, announces the launch of its Chemical Structure Search Tool, a powerful new resource for analyzing psychedelic derivatives in patents and patent applications. The tool aims to provide researchers, investors, and patent examiners with a streamlined method to explore the evolving landscape of psychedelic intellectual property, ensuring greater transparency and accessibility in the field.
Porta Sophia is dedicated to preserving the integrity of the public domain while supporting innovation in psychedelic therapies. By providing a comprehensive, searchable database of chemical structures, the new tool allows users to efficiently identify and compare psychedelic derivatives, access prior art, and assess the novelty of patent claims.
The Tool: Advancing Psychedelic Research and Patent Transparency
The Chemical Structure Search Tool (free and accessible on the Porta Sophia website) enables users to input or draw chemical structures and retrieve relevant patent filings and prior art references. This advanced functionality assists stakeholders in:
Ethical Patent Practices and the Role of Porta Sophia
In alignment with Porta Sophia’s mission to support good patents in psychedelics, the Chemical Structure Search Tool is designed to promote transparency and uphold the legal and ethical responsibilities of IP professionals. Patent applicants, attorneys, and researchers can utilize the tool to conduct comprehensive due diligence, ensuring compliance with USPTO Rules for Professional Conduct (37 C.F.R. §§ 11.101–11.804) regarding candor, competence, and diligence in prior art disclosure.
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Porta Sophia, meaning doorway to wisdom, is a non-profit psychedelic prior art library created to support good patents in the field of psychedelics. Based in Madison, Wisconsin USA, Porta Sophia identifies scientific, historical and cultural prior art in common and uncommon spaces and brings it together in one simple search tool for innovators and patent reviewers. The organization's mission is to protect the public domain, stimulate innovation, and support good patents to assure psychedelic therapies can one day be available at scale to the people who need them.
Porta Sophia works to support equity in the psychedelic field. The organization facilitates community engagement through encouraging submissions of prior art from the public and organizing an interdisciplinary Archival Researcher Network (ARN) to ensure quality psychedelic prior art is readily available to patent applicants, examiners, and those interested in psychedelic research.
To learn more about Porta Sophia's patent and prior art workflow or get involved, visit www.portasophia.org.