Patent pattern analysis of Artemisia annua / 中草药

ABSTRACT

Artemisiae Annuae Herba is dry aboveground part of Artemisia annua, which has a long history of application in China. Modern research achievements make it shiny all over the world. The breakthrough in modern research also attracts a lot of attention and related research, and now a lot of achievements have been made. In order to perform further research purposefully, systematic review of existing achievements was made to understand industry pattern and development prospect. And the patent document is one of the important science and technology literature source. The patent information was collected from several special patent database, and the patent and industrial structure in the field comprehensively was analyzed with the aid of computer science, including life cycle, geographical distribution, international exchange, efficacy preferences, compatibility strategy, excellent application institutions, and high value patents. The result shows that the field has sizable development space, which should make use of the analysis result of the paper to formulate development strategies in line with our own.