Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches for Endometriosis: A Patent Landscape

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Abstract Objective The aim of this review is to analyse the patent filings and to systematize the main technological trends in patent protection for the diagnosis and therapeutics for Endometriosis. Patent literature has also been explored to find out active inventors and applicants in this field. Methodology Patent Search is carried in the freely accessible Patent search databases namely Patentscope using Various combinations of the key words “Endometriosis OR Adenomyosis” AND “Diagnostic OR Therapeutics”, were used along with wildcard search query in the “Title”, “Abstract” and “Descriptions” fields. Results Patent search revealed one hundred forty-four patents which describes invention for endometriosis diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. These patents includes twenty six patent applications in diagnostic utility, one hundred sixteen patents applications under the therapeutic approaches and forty three patent applications describes under traditional medicines for endometriosis. Conclusion Hormonal alteration is the most active field of invention followed by surgical interventions. Although there is a general trend of increase in patent applications has been observed but there is slight decrease in the recent years has also been observed.