title: Clearing the fog of anticancer patents from 1993-2013: through an in-depth technology landscape & target analysis from pioneer research institutes and universities worldwide.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In a search for an effective anticancer therapy the R&D units from leading universities and institutes reveal numerous technologies in the form of patent documents. The article addressed comparative anticancer patent landscape and technology assessment of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR): India's largest R&D organisation with top twenty international public funded universities and institutes from eight different countries.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The methodology include quantitative and qualitative assessment based on the bibliometric parameters and manual technology categorisation to understand the changing patent trends and recent novel technologies. The research finding analysed 25,254 patent documents from the year 1993 to 2013 and reported the insights of latest anticancer technologies and targets through categorisation studies at the level of drug discovery, development and treatment & diagnosis. The article has reported the technology correlation matrix of twelve secondary class technologies with 34 tertiary sub-class research area to identify the leading technologies and scope of future research through whitespaces analysis. In addition, the results have also addressed the target analysis, leading inventor, assignee, collaboration network, geographical distribution, patent trend analysis, citation maps and technology assessment with respect to international patent classification systems such as CPC, IPC and CPI codes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The result suggested peptide technology as the dominating research area next to gene therapy, vaccine and medical preparation containing organic compounds. The Indian CSIR has ranked itself at seventh position among the top 20 universities. Globally, the anticancer research was focused in the area of genetics and immunology, whereas Indian CSIR reported more patents related to plant extract and organic preparation. The article provided a glimpse of two decade anticancer scenario with respect to top public funded universities worldwide.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacoinformatics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), S.A.S. Nagar, Punjab, India.
authors.forename: Ajay
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dara
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacoinformatics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), S.A.S. Nagar, Punjab, India.
authors.forename: Abhay T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Sangamwar
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000818:Animals; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy; D012106:Research / Q000266:history / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014495:Universities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
references.citation: Bull World Health Organ. 1984;62(2):163-82
references.pmid: 6610488
references.citation: CA Cancer J Clin. 2012 Jan-Feb;62(1):10-29
references.pmid: 22237781
references.citation: Int J Cancer. 2010 Dec 15;127(12):2893-917
references.pmid: 21351269
references.citation: Natl Med J India. 2011 Mar-Apr;24(2):69-71
references.pmid: 21668046
references.citation: CA Cancer J Clin. 2012 Jul-Aug;62(4):220-41
references.pmid: 22700443
references.citation: Indian J Cancer. 1998 Mar;35(1):10-8
references.pmid: 9847465
references.citation: Expert Opin Ther Pat. 2014 Aug;24(8):893-912
references.pmid: 24898985
references.citation: Lancet. 2012 Nov 24;380(9856):1840-50
references.pmid: 23079588
references.citation: CA Cancer J Clin. 2014 Jan-Feb;64(1):9-29
references.pmid: 24399786
references.citation: Int J Cancer. 2013 Mar 1;132(5):1133-45
references.pmid: 22752881
references.citation: Int J Cancer. 1999 Dec 10;83(6):870-873
references.pmid: 10602059
references.citation: CA Cancer J Clin. 2013 Jan;63(1):11-30
references.pmid: 23335087
references.citation: Expert Opin Ther Pat. 2011 Sep;21(9):1309-38
references.pmid: 21635152