Abstract: OBJECTIVE To analyze the economic, legal and technical information of the invention patents of Desmodii Styracifolii Herba, providing suggestions for the subsequent research and application of invention patent. METHODS Searching and screening the invention patents of Desmodii Styracifolii Herba from 1985 to 2018, as to use the method of patent bibliometrics to have a data mining on their information of invention patents. RESULTS The foreign applicants are mainly Japanese pharmaceutical enterprises, and the domestic key applicants have been formed in the past six years, mainly Wuhan and Guangxi pharmaceutical enterprises.According to the application experience of Humanwell healthcare enterprise, it is difficult for the invention patents of Desmodii Styracifolii Herba to enter the markets of Japan, South Korea and North America.At the same time, the probability of transforming into new Chinese medicine in China is low, and the invention patents of key owners are not enough to form a patent network. CONCLUSION Based on the analysis, it is suggested that the applicant should first base himself on the domestic market, and focus on the product development by synthesizing different extracts of the same Chinese herbal medicine,then the coverage and application innovation of dosage forms, treatment indications and drug compatibility should not be ignored.