Table 1.
Claim analysis of the granted patents. Within this table, all granted patents have been organized according to the bacterial genera they describe, their patent number, the applicant (private sector in blue and public sector in yellow) and the nationality of the applicant (CN China, ES Spain, GB United Kingdom, JP Japan, KR Korea, and US United States), and the filing year. Moreover, the claims were categorized according the four different categories: (1) Phage: claims protecting one or multiple phages and their genome sequence, (2) Composition: claims discussing the composition of a phage product, (3) Production: methods to produce phages, and (4) Treatment: methods to use phages as a treatment for plant diseases. If a patent contains claims that belong to a specific category, it is quantified. The colors indicate the scope of a claim or set of claims: very narrow, intermediate, or broadly-defined (green, orange, and red, respectively).
| Bacterial Genera | Patent Number | Applicant | Filing Year | Type of Claim | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phage | Composition | Production | Treatment | ||||
| Other | US9539343 | Fixed Phage (GB) | 2012 | 1 | 1 | ||
| CN103747792 | Fixed Phage (GB) | 2012 | 1 | 1 | |||
| JP6230994 | Fixed Phage (GB) | 2012 | 1 | 1 | |||
| US9278141 | Fixed Phage (GB) | 2013 | 5 | ||||
| CN104630154 | University of Zhejiang (CN) | 2015 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| KR101887987 | Pukyong National University (KR) | 2016 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Dickeya/Pectobacterium | KR101368328 | Rural development Administration (KR) | 2010 | 1 | 1 | ||
| KR101790019 | Rural development administration (KR) | 2014 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| KR101797463 | Rural development Administration (KR) | 2014 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| KR101891298 | Seoul National University (KR) | 2016 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Pseudomonas | KR101584214 | Chungbuk National University (KR) | 2012 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Ralstonia | JP4532959 | Sanin Kensetsu Kogyo (JP) | 2004 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |
| JP4862154 | University of Hiroshima (JP) | 2006 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| US9380786 | University of Hiroshima (JP) | 2012 | 1 | ||||
| JP5812466 | University of Hiroshima (JP) | 2011 | 1 | 3 | |||
| CN104542717 | Guizhou Tobacco science research institute (CN) | 2015 | 1 | 1 | |||
| ES2592352 | University of Valencia (ES) | 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Xanthomonas/Xylella | AU2013331060 | Texas A&M University (US) | 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| JP6391579 | Texas A&M University (US) | 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| US9357785 | Texas A&M University (US) | 2013 | 1 | ||||
| ZA201502230 | Texas A&M University (US) | 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |