Epidermal stem cells and skin tissue engineering in hair follicle regeneration

Table 1 Owners of hair regeneration patents and patent applications matching all the descriptors found in academic literature

Assignee	No of patent applications	Percentage
Shiseido Co Ltd	5	7.69%
Aderans Research Institute Inc	5	7.69%
Hospital for Sick Children	2	3.08%
Biointegrence Inc, phoenixbio Co Ltd	2	3.08%
Follica Inc	2	3.08%
Organ technologies Inc	2	3.08%
Universitiy of Jilin	2	3.08%
University of Southern California	2	3.08%
National University of Taiwan	2	3.08%
Aderans Research Institute Inc, Bioamide Inc	1	1.54%
Agency for science, technology and research	1	1.54%
Alvi Armani Genomics Inc	1	1.54%
Anticancer Inc, Li L, Yang M	1	1.54%
Beijing Yonghe Hair Transplant Technology	1	1.54%
Biomaster KK	1	1.54%
Chen B, Gao Q, Zeng Q	1	1.54%
Chinese Academy of Science Institute of Zoology	1	1.54%
Total No of patent applications	65	100.00%
No of Entities	50

Own investigation using patent data base Thomson Innovation.