The Development of Technical Patents Related to African Swine Fever in China
In order to identify the research priority of technical patents related to Africa swine fever(ASF),295 relevant patents were selected by use of patent databases including China Patent Abstracts Database(CNABS)and in combination with“manual reading denoising”,and the number of application,technical field,applicant and research core of patents from January 2006 to July 2020 were analyzed by the Excel software. The results showed that the total number of application was increasing and had boomed since 2018;the technical patents focused on rapid,effective and specific identification and detection of African swine fever virus(ASFV)and safe prevention and control of ASF;the applicants might come from enterprises,institutes,colleges or be an individual,most of them were from enterprises,followed by institutes and colleges;for the research core,institutes and colleges focused on the development of basic technology,and enterprises mainly developed the effective combination of technology and industrialization. With the increasing importance and urgency of ASF control as well as the update of research methods in China,it could be expected that the research by the applicants would be more active in the field. Some references were provided for prevention and control of ASF as well as the development of relevant technologies in China.