The Study of The Relative of Patent Litigation and Patent Index

• Main Authors: Wei-ting Wu, 吳韋霆
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49182805294554730289

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 專利研究所 === 102 === Among all the intangible assets, the most important ones for business and corporations are the intellectual properties which are created through human intellectual activities. Patent is the most valuable one of the intellectual properties that are protected by companies or used for competition. Due to the advanced technology, lots of new patents are filed by companies and research organizations, and how to properly manage and utilize these new patents, these activities have become important issues. A valuable patent can be granted authority of exclusive rights to others for profits. It is to properly manage the patents for a company can mainly increase the company's competitions in its industry. From the historical researches, they suggest that a patent index can be determined by analyzing the citations, patent families, and claims. This research collects 51 patent litigation cases, which involved 140 patents. It is used the patent search tools to analyze the detail of each patent and compare them with prior art of research. Also, this research is conducted to see if the compensation from the claim is related to the value of the said patents such as the range of claims, or the market value of the related products. For some cases, the industrial researches for medical and electrical are achieved to enhance a convinced conclusion. This research also gives helpful suggestions for the patent evaluation, in which could help business manage their patents more effectively.