Summary of the Study

Local anesthesia drugs are used for surgical and post-operative pain relief procedures. Growth in the number of surgeries performed every year globally demand the development of safe and effective local anesthetic drugs.

In order to help healthcare companies working in the area of Local Anesthesia, our firm Mark IP has prepared a very detailed Patent Landscape Report on Local Anesthesia covering patent data from 1897 to Till-date!

The first patent in the field of Local Anesthesia was filed in the United States in 1897, US Patent 628489A which claims a non-volatile substance capable of producing local anesthesia! From 1897 to 1960 very few patent applications were published in this area, on average 05 patents per year was published! From 1960 to 1990, on average 50 patents per year was published.

A recent Patent Literature search shows that nearly 9,000 patent families contain the root words (*anesthesia* or *analgesia*  or *anesthetic*) and (local* or regional*) when searched in the Title, Abstract and Claims.

Mark IP's analysts have manually screened ~9,000 patent families containing the word anesthesia, analgesia, anesthetic, local, regional in title, abstract and claims filed all over the world and they bucketed the relevant ~8,000 patent families to First and Second Level Taxonomy.  In addition, Mark IP has collected details about

1) All the claimed uses of Local Anesthetics - The regions where it is active

2) The types of Chemical Compounds, Derivatives, Metabolites, Salts Used as Local Anesthetics.

The global anesthesia market is projected to reach $ 4.9 billion by 2022. So, Mark IP's Patent Landscape Report on Local Anesthesia which covers last 125 Years of Patent Data would be highly useful to companies developing Local Anesthetic Drugs!