Technology development and market trend analysis of radiopharmaceuticals using patent statistics data

Radiopharmaceuticals are constantly being studied in the field of tumor diagnosis and therapy. As a result, many patents have been registered related to the development of radiopharmaceutical therapy. In this study, effective patents related to radiology and nuclear medicine filed during the past 10 years were collected from various countries like Korea, United States, Japan, Europe etc., and the application trends and growth stages were analyzed through statistical analysis. From the analysis results of 47,991 patents related to radiology and nuclear medicine, only 6,268 registered patents were found valid, and 80% of those were related to radiopharmaceutical development. In addition, we analyzed the patent of major competitors and used them to analyze the trends in radioisotopes and medicinal research. Among these, all the top 10 major applicants have found to be concentrating on radiopharmaceutical development.