Journal of Intellectual Property Rights

Kaustubh Singh ¹, H. Purushotham ¹

Affiliations
1 National Research Development Corporation, Kailash Colony Extension, New Delhi - 110 048, IN

Abstract

The paper is a landscape analysis of patenting activity in the field of AYUSH. A patent search was carried out for patents in the field of Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy in the Questel Orbit database. The search was carried out globally and included the patents that were filed in the last five years (February 2015 - January, 2020). A total of 1560 patents were retrieved during the search. The search showed that a disproportionate amount of patents were filed in the field of Yoga followed by Homeopathy and Ayurveda. Pinghu Shengroude plastic industry came out as the assignee with maximum number of patent filings followed by Jiangsu Youth Fitness Equipment. The search also covered products, current developments in the field along with listing potential commercialization opportunities for existing players in the field.

Keywords

Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha , Homeopathy, AYUSH.

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Kaustubh Singh ¹, Anindya Roy Chowdhury ², Purushotham Hanumanthu ²

Affiliations
1 National Research Development Corporation, Kailash Colony Extension, New Delhi – 110 048, Delhi,, IN
2 Centre for Intellectual Property Rights, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam – 530 003, Andhra Pradesh,, IN

Abstract

Start-up companies represent a powerful engine of the innovation process. The current study aims to establish a better understanding of the Start-up ecosystem in providing innovative healthcare solutions through the lens of intellectual property and relate it to policy gaps for supporting the Start-up ecosystem in India. This study found that about 397 healthcare Start-up companies have been established after 1 January 2010. The Questel Orbit database was used to conduct a patent search for the patents filed by these Start-ups from 1 January 2010 to 1 May 2020. A total of 3527 patents were retrieved and analyzed thoroughly to generate insights on the year-wise patent filing trend, geographical patent filing density, top aggressive patent filers, sector-wise filing density and a glimpse ofthe patent filing culture of healthcare Startups in India. The result shows that major filing has been done in the field of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology; and major healthcare market is the USA. Despite the Start-up culture being relatively new in India, the country’s healthcare Start-ups are among the top 10 patent filers globally. It is observed that Verily Life Sciences is the top healthcare patent filer globally and SigTuple is the top patent filer from India.

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