Dental Patents in India: A Decade Long Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The advent of technology in dentistry compels the safeguard of intellectual property to guarantee a steady flow of ideas. A guarantee preserves the idea/invention which is conductive to the subsequent financial gain or marketing of the said product for the patentee. The main objective of the present study was to illuminate the trends in the dental patents filed in India over the past decade and to analyze these in context with the recent developments in dental markets.

Methodology

A total of 641 dental patent applications retrieved from the Indian Government Official Website between 2010 and 2020 were scanned for field of invention, type or status of application along with details regarding date of publication or filing of application, etc., The dataset was collab

SUBMITTER: Cherian JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9855264 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature