Research on Patent Quality and Value Features─Taking Industrial Technology Research Institute as an Example

• Main Authors: Szu-Yuan Yang, 楊思源
• Other Authors: JUI-CHU LIN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2nabzm

博士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 應用科技研究所 === 107 === Under the background of the rapid development of economic globalization and science and technology, the role and influence of intellectual property rights become increasingly prominent in countries of the world. The quantity and quality of possessing intellectual property rights, especially patents, has become one of the important indicators to measure the competitiveness and comprehensive strength of a country, region and enterprise. Previous research on patent value was mainly through patent maintenance renewal, market value assessment, investigation of inventor and transferee and bibliographic indicators as the proxy indices of patent quality and quantity. Another approach is to study the relationship between patent characteristics and patent value, such as whether a patent is litigated, whether it is renewed, and whether it is filed in multiple countries, etc. Most of the patents owned by the Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan (hereinafter referred to as ITRI) are produced by undertaking the research and development project commissioned by the government. The output, management and application of the patent rights are related to a series of concerns regarding the investment of national resources: whether the development direction is accurate, whether the industrial benefits can be expanded, whether the national competitiveness can be improved, and many other science and technology policies. The findings of this study are expected to provide important reference for directing the future intellectual property rights policies of the country and for determining and allocating research and development funds to research institutions or universities. This study is divided into two sub-projects to explore the relationship between the selling success of the patent and the patent index. What is the relationship between patent assignment amount and patent index? The sample of this study was 1,122, including successfully sold and patents not sold, held by ITRI. Among these, 610 patents were sold between January 1, 2003 and May 8, 2014. The conclusion of this study is as follows: the factors that affect the number of patent transaction that were successfully sold by ITRI are the number of inventions, the time of patent examination, and the number of patents claims, especially the number of independent claims. The more the patent backward citations, patent families and patent forward citations, the stronger the patent family strength. Finally, the model provides a set of patent evaluation mechanism for ITRI. Through this model, ITRI can determine the success probability of future sale and the amount of patent transaction. As some patent characteristics are developed dynamically during the course of technological evolution, it is suggested that ITRI updates the patent database regularly according to the model, so as to monitor the changes of sales success rate in real time and identify the patent that may be transferred in advance.