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Vanessa Faria de Freitas1, Marcos Vinicius Silva Mendes2, Sarah Ferreira Neves3
1Nurse student, Federal University of São João del-Rei (UFSJ), Divinópólis, Brazil, vanessafaria33@gmail.com.
Objective:
To identify areas of innovation in internationally registered patents focused on diabetic foot ulcers.
Methods:
This is a quantitative technological prospecting of international patents, from 2020 to 2024, in the World Intellectual Property Organization database, using the descriptor "diabetic foot".
Results:
1372 patents were found, with the largest number of registrations originating from China (76.38%), the United States (4.74%), the Patent Cooperation Treaty (3.8%), and India (3.1%). The areas of innovation of the patents were classified into treatment (82.1%), prevention (12.2%), and evaluation (5.7%). Among the patents, 72.8% correspond to medical devices and 27.2% to pharmaceutical compounds.
Conclusion:
The global trend is towards patents for the treatment of diabetic foot complications.
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