HENRIQUE KOCH CHAVES1, RENATA OLIVEIRA FAGUNDES1, JÚLIA MARIA BRANDÃO DA SILVA1, CARLA CRISTINA DE FREIRAS DA SILVEIRA 1,4, ADELAIDE MARIA DE SOUZA ANTUNES, FABIO LUIZ NAVARRO MARQUES2, JORGE LIMA DE MAGALHAES 1,3*
*Corresponding author
1. Oswaldo Cruz/ Foundation/FIOCRUZ, Farmanguinhos, Centre for Technological Innovation – NIT FAR, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2. Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine (LIM43), Department of Radiology and Oncology,
Faculty of Medicine FMUSP, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
3. NOVA University of Lisbon, Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHMT), Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM), Lisbon, Portugal
4. National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), School of Chemistry of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ),
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Portugal

Abstract

Industrial property studies are urgent in a globalized, competitive world with constant technological innovations. This work presents an analysis of use of technologies in cancer and technological prospecting on patent databases containing the 99mTc radioisotope on the global scene between 2001 and 2021. The documents were retrieved from the ORBIT Intelligence® platform of the company QUESTEL®. The 53 patents analyzed show that China stands out in the number of patent applications filed (55%). Universities played a high role in technology protections (41%). The strategy used to extract and mine technological data proved to be efficient, as it highlighted potential uses in the area of Health, as well as the method can be replicated in other areas of knowledge.

INTRODUCTION
A world with rapid scientific and technological changes, need to be aware of issues such as social moviments, environmental, economic and digital transformations, retrospective studies, or data mining. Knowledge and monitoring of these issues are important for decision makers in any area. Specifically in the health area, in business agents, government agencies, in academia or in proposing strategies in the face of new opportunities for the development of new technologies and products. Among the various technological prospecting tools, in the patenting area there is a huge repository of Big Data (1–3).

Patent protection plays an important role in the pharmaceutical industry, ensuring the growth and survival of these companies in an extremely competitive market. Since the process of developing new drugs is long, a way to guarantee exclusive rights over them and still prevent third parties, without their consent, from producing or commercializing them would be through the filing of a patent. Patent protection guarantees the return on the high investment of pharmaceutical industries in R&D, since they lose around 80% ...