Patent; Systematic review; Design Science Research.

Patents are important sources of technological information. Structured and unstructured data from patent documents provide relevant information for the analysis process of scientific or technological research. This data, which many times is not described in the scientific literature or is revealed through articles years later, aggregates specialized knowledge, sometimes prior to the one available in the state of the art. In the area of Applied Social Sciences, patent databases are still a resource that is not commonly explored, and there is opportunity for researchers to learn about search tools, patent classifiers, and the formulation of a search strategy that can result in relevant documents for the topic of study. So, the objective of the present study is to develop a systematic review protocol for patent databases for the area of Applied Social Sciences, allowing quantitative and qualitative analysis of patent documents as a source of relevant information to be incorporated to scientific and technological papers. In order to do that, the Design Science Research (DSR) method was used, with the primary data being obtained through exploratory interviews, and the secondary data being obtained through bibliographical research and systematic literature review. This data will subsidize the proposition of the artifact, which is intended to be evaluated in workshops and/or along with potential users, as well as the communication of the learning process in scientific publications. The technological product to be generated in this paper has a didactic purpose, aiming to contribute to the formation of multiplying agents and researchers in the field of Intellectual Property, allowing the dissemination and application of this specialized knowledge.