Patent Analysis and Technology Strategy for Semiconductor Industry:The Case Study of Flash Memory MLC Technology

• Main Authors: Wen-Chieh Lee, 李文傑
• Other Authors: Shang-Jyh Liu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41020993682205227349

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 管理學院碩士在職專班科技管理組 === 92 === In the knowledge economic era, any enterprise want to turn into the knowledge industry ,the patent development should be well done. Because only the enterprise can fully understand the importance of patent and know how to develop patents for increasing it’s revenue, then it can be successful in the knowledge economic era. Therefore, increasing the number of valuable patents and commercializing the patents, contribute to the development of innovative new technologies and products, it’s the major enterprise’s goal of patent development. This paper take the MLC technology of flash memory as example, and develop it in two way: Passive way : Patent Analysis Base on the technology trend of semiconductor industry ,the strategy of patent search can be defined; Co-operating with patent searching tool, we can proceed the target patents’ searching of the designed country. Then ,we use patent analysis tool to summarize the target patents by graphic table or display. The management charts ( for example ,technique life cycle chart、annual total patent number chart、inventor analysis chart、patent reference chart、patent citation chart….etc.)can help us to know the developing trend of the specific technique and understand the status of competitors; The technique charts( for example, technique function matrix chart, patent family chart, key patents reference family chart..etc) can help us to know the overall management of patent application and the tort warning; Finally, base on the dedicated patent information of the semiconductor industry from the patent map, the specific enterprise can make it’s management decision and take patent information as the important technique references. Active way : Patent Portfolio According to the technique development of the semiconductor industry, using the dedicated patent map and information of the specific enterprise , we may get the core technology. Then, we set the core technology as the target and compare it with the prior art , thus we can build up the patent portfolio in the target technique area. And we can make the suitable patent application strategy to compensate the insufficient part of the prior art, thus the competitor can’t design around and enter the market.