Patent ID: 7984069

Claim:
A method of commercializing at least one previously unreported proprietary method of using a product of manufacture or device, wherein the proprietary method of using the product or device is established according to the steps comprising: accessing one or more data sources, wherein at least one data source stores adverse event data associated with the product or device; analyzing and comparing the stored adverse event data, with at least one previously-known adverse event associated with the product or device; identifying at least one previously unreported essential adverse event associated with the product or device from the adverse event data, wherein an essential adverse event is one regulated by a regulatory agency requiring disclosure of the event in a package insert or data sheet accompanying the product or device, and then responsive to identifying of the previously unreported essential adverse event, identifying at least one previously unreported method of use for the product or device associated with said identified essential adverse event; documenting inventorship of the at least one previously unreported method of use for the product or device; and creating a database of proprietary essential adverse event information, wherein the database stores at least one record related to at least one of: a patent, patent application, patent publication, or data contained in at least one patent, patent application or patent publication, wherein said at least one patent, patent application, patent publication, or data contained in at least one patent, patent application or patent publication, discloses and relates to at least one of the at least one previously unreported method of use and the at least one essential adverse event, and wherein the at least one previously unreported proprietary method of using a product or device consists of a use selected from the group consisting of a restricted use of said product or device, providing warning(s) about the essential adverse event, providing instruction(s) for avoiding an essential adverse event, and any combination thereof; and commercializing the at least one previously unreported proprietary method of using a product or device, the commercializing comprising exclusively disclosing the at least one previously unreported proprietary method of use and the associated at least one previously unreported essential adverse event information, which information, once identified, must then accompany the product or device, wherein commercializing means creating profit from the exclusive disclosure.