사상체질의학의 특허 동향 분석

1. Objectives The purpose of this study is to analyze for the patent application tendency in SCM(Sasang Constitutional Medicine). Recently, in SCM, many researches are made public through papers. However, in the patent area, the research results are less than the papers. 2. Methods We collected patents about SCM using wintelips program. We analyzed patents according to the year, author, topic, and etc. 3. Results We collected 151 patents using search system with wintelips program. After detailed analysis on SCM patent, we got to know that SCM was a growing field. In the collected patents, the patents on diagnosis technology were the majority and system of providing information were the second largest. 4. Conclusions We think that the SCM field is growing at a fast pace with high activity, and this research should be updated annually.