Vidya Subramanian (Reliance Life Sciences, India) India has been in forefront by providing health care products at an affordable price. The success of Pharmaceutical generics showcases the significance of effective patent searching and data mining. The emerging Biotech era has posed many challenges to comprehensive patent search. The nuances in patent searching in life science domain opens a plethora of aspects that one needs to delve in seeking accurate information. The Biotech patent information remains largely scattered as opposed to the organised analysis of patents available to chemical domain. The collation of information and the complexity begins right from the structure of the molecule to the final mechanism of action of these products. A cursory review of the aspects of searching life sciences patents enables one to evolve an insightful search.