Data for: COVID-19 patents/patent applications (Jan. 2020 – Oct. 2021)

This dataset contains information regarding both applications and granted patents on COVID-19 disease Derwent Innovation database was used for data mining (accessed on Nov. 20, 2021). The patent search was carried out on by means of a precise set of keywords and performed in the title/abstract/claims search field. 6,148 Inpadoc patent families were retrieved. The <em>XLS file</em> contains information related to Title, Abstract - DWPI , First Claim, Priority Number, Priority Date, Application Number, Application Date, Publication Number, Publication Date, IPC – Current, CPC – Current, Assignee/Applicant, Optimized Assignee, INPADOC Family Members. The top countries/regions are China (3,271), WO (1,057), India (487), United States (455). The top IPC codes are listed in the following table: <strong>IPC</strong> <strong>Definition</strong> <strong>No. of patents/applications</strong> A61P 31/14 <em>Antivirals for RNA viruses</em> 1565 G01N 33/569 <em>Biological material •• Chemical analysis of biological material ••• Immunoassay; Biospecific binding assay; Materials therefor •••• for microorganisms</em> 783 C12Q 1/70 <em>Measuring or testing processes • involving virus or bacteriophage</em> 642 A61P 11/00 <em>Drugs for disorders of the respiratory system</em> 582 A61K 39/215 <em>Medicinal preparations containing antigens or antibodies • Viral antigens •• Coronaviridae, e.g., avian infectious bronchitis virus</em> 377 <strong>Value of the dataset</strong>: prior art searches; patent landscape analysis <strong>Steps to reproduce data</strong>: CTB=("covid-19" OR "covid 19" OR "covid19" ADJ "SARS-CoV-2" OR "SARS-CoV2" OR "sarscov2" ADJ "2019 ncov" OR "2019-nCoV" OR "2019nCoV" ADJ "covid-2019" OR "covid 2019" OR "COVID2019" OR "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2" OR "2019 novel coronavirus" OR "coronavirus disease 2019" OR "novel corona virus" OR "novel coronavirus" OR "new corona virus" OR "new coronavirus" OR "Wuhan coronavirus") CTB=title/abstract/claims