title: Anticancer patent landscape and technology assessment of Indian public-funded research institutes and organizations.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This review discusses the various drug therapeutic targets and latest technologies of anticancer patents from 10 Indian public-funded research organizations covering more than 150 esteemed institutes. We have identified and reported the leading assignee and inventors along with their collaboration network and, thereby, have analyzed the various patent trends, geographical distributions, citation maps, Derwent World Patents Index, international patent classification analysis and the like.
  
  
  METHODS
  This article provides the insights of 1905 patent documents from 191 families and discusses in-depth anticancer technology through categorization studies at the level of drug discovery, drug development and treatment and diagnosis. In addition, various cancer targets were correlated with recent technologies so as to identify the white spaces for upcoming technologies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Over a period of 13 years (1990 - 2013) the main focus of Indian cancer research was in the field of synthetic chemistry and natural extracts followed by the pharmaceutical compositions and combinations, whereas, the white spaces for future cancer remedy were identified from research in the areas of cancer stem cell lines, vaccines, gene therapy, nano formulations with targeted drug delivery systems as core and latest technologies.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Department of Pharmacoinformatics , S.A.S. Nagar, Mohali, Punjab 160062 , India +91 0172 2214682-2211 ; abhays@niper.ac.in.
authors.forename: Ajay
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dara
authors.forename: Abhay T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Sangamwar
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D019496:Cancer Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D016503:Drug Delivery Systems; D015195:Drug Design; D015316:Genetic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D058990:Molecular Targeted Therapy; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D010330:Patents as Topic; D017150:Public Sector
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D019496:Cancer Vaccines
keywords: bibliometric analysis; cancer targets; patent landscape; patent trends; technology assessment