What happens when you plot 24,746 plant compounds in terms of their patent activity compared to the scientific literature – the IP gap in botanical drug discovery [OC]

Each point represents a phytochemical from the USDA’s Dr. Duke database, plotted against patents filed with the USPTO since 2020 (y-axis) and the citation frequency in PubMed (x-axis). Both axes are logarithmically scaled. The red area: high patent density, low scientific literature—this is what IP analysts refer to as FTOwhitespace: commercial activities that have not [...]