### Question
Can you define what drug product means?


### Answer
**Drug product** is defined as the following in *35 U.S.C. § 156*:

> the active ingredient of—


(A) a new drug, antibiotic drug, or human biological product (as those terms are used in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act), or


(B) a new animal drug or veterinary biological product (as those terms are used in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act) which is not primarily manufactured using recombinant DNA, recombinant RNA, hybridoma technology, or other processes involving site specific genetic manipulation techniques,


  

including any salt or ester of the active ingredient, as a single entity or in combination with another active ingredient

#### Citation:
  - *35 U.S.C. § 156*
  - Heading: **PART II-PATENTABILITY OF INVENTIONS AND GRANT OF PATENTS > CHAPTER 14-ISSUE OF PATENT**

