Valuing patents and licenses from a business strategy perspective – Extending valuation considerations using the case of nanotechnology

Currently there is a debate in the field of nanotechnology about the evolving IP landscape and its impact on innovative progress based on technological discovery in the future. Nevertheless, nanotechnology patents will serve as an important securitization instrument for future financing and business strategic purposes. Valuation know-how of nanotechnology patents will therefore become critical in deal-making and in bringing about innovation. Like many innovative products today, nanotechnology enabled products also consist of a multitude of patented technological components from different stages in a value chain and belonging to a multitude of owners. Complex IP landscapes along entire value chains give rise to a tendency to over-value one’s own patented technology from an ex-ante and individual company’s perspective. Thus the sum of individually estimated values of patented technology can exceed the value that can be realized ex-post in a given value chain. We extend current valuation considerations of patented technology from a static perspective to include a dynamic view using nanotechnology as an example. Furthermore, in addition to single value chain stages as a level of analysis (level A) we also take into account the complex technology landscapes in entire value chains (level B) as well as patented technologies’ potential value in different current or future value chains (level C). We derive conclusions with respect to valuation approaches for the discussed levels of analysis from a static and dynamic perspective.     

Patent Information User Groups in Europe join together: Foundation of the Confederacy of European Patent Information User Groups (CEPIUG)

The Confederacy of European Patent Information User Groups (CEPIUG) was founded in 2008 to promote the sharing of experiences and expertise in patent searching across Europe.CEPIUG currently comprises patent information user groups of seven different European countries and is, of course, open to new members. Besides the exchange of information, CEPIUG also seeks to promote the coordination of European efforts in the fields of education and training of new entrants into the profession of patent searching, as well as trying to identify a suitable certification scheme for patent information professionals.     

机械制造企业专利战略方案的细节探讨

对专利战略与市场竞争的关系、国内外专利保护及发展现状、我国专利发展的一些突出问题及我国机械行业企业专利保护问题进行了分析和阐述,并对广西机械企业的专利保护战略及实施方案进行了探讨。     

Patent analyses in the changed legal regime of the US Patent Law since 2001

In 2001, a new ruling for the publication of patent applications at the United States Patent and Trademark Office came into effect. Since then, all applications which are also filed with foreign offices have to be published 18 months after the application date, in analogy to the ruling in Europe and Japan. This new regime replaces the former system where only granted patents were published. With about 70% of all applications the share of pre-grant publications of applications of US origin is quite high, allowing new types of statistical analysis. In particular, the investigations of time series based on priority years instead of grant years can thus be performed much more topically. On the one hand, a larger dataset for applications of US origin is available; on the other hand, the sample of applications from Asian countries is generally much larger at the US Patent Office than at the European Patent Office. Despite these new opportunities, searches at low levels of aggregation by codes of the International Patent Classification still have to be handled with care.     

Exploring and visualizing spatial-temporal evolution of patent collaboration networks: A case of China's intelligent manufacturing equipment industry

With the integration of intelligent manufacturing (IM) technology and the manufacturing industry, the intelligent manufacturing equipment industry (IMEI) has become the focus of a new round of industrial revolution. This integration has led to a new revolution in the manufacturing industry and is key to transforming China into a manufacturing country with international competitiveness. However, China's IMEI is in the development stage, thus presenting a major challenge to it becoming a competitive core industry. Therefore, there is an urgent need to explore the IMEI patent collaboration network and analyze its evolutionary characteristics, which can improve not only the innovation ability of network organizations but also the overall competitiveness of the IMEI. This study employs social network analysis (SNA) to study the evolution of the patent collaboration network of China's IMEI. The results show that the number of co-patents for the IMEI field in China has obvious stage characteristics, the collaborative innovation patterns adopted by different provinces vary, and the State Grid has a strong influence on the network. The scale of the patent collaboration network is gradually expanding, exhibiting a “small-world” structure. Jiangsu mainly innovates through intra-provincial collaboration. Provinces such as Beijing, Guangdong and Shandong are more inclined to inter-provincial collaboration.     

Semantic views — Interactive hierarchical exploration for patent landscaping

In this paper, we investigate whether a semantic representation of patent documents provides added value for a multi-dimensional visual exploration of a patent landscape compared to traditional approaches that use tf–idf (term frequency–inverse document frequency). Word embeddings from a pre-trained word2vec model created from patent text are used to calculate pairwise similarities in order to represent each document in the semantic space. Then, a hierarchical clustering method is applied to create several semantic aggregation levels for a collection of patent documents. For visual exploration, we have seamlessly integrated multiple interaction metaphors that combine semantics and additional metadata for improving hierarchical exploration of large document collections.     

移动智能终端领域专利纠纷态势浅析

本文通过对近年来移动智能终端领域的全球专利纠纷态势进行了综合分析,并透过纷繁复杂的专利纠纷乱象,揭示出该领域已显现出三大产业阵营：微软为代表的Windows Phone阵营、苹果公司、谷歌为代表的Android阵营,前两个阵营一致将知识产权矛头对准了谷歌为首的Android阵营,同时对我国产业可能面临的风险进行了浅析。     

EPC 2000 – State of play nearly two years on

The European Patent Convention as revised in 2000 (EPC 2000) [1] entered into force on 13 December 2007. While the revision changed rather little in terms of substantive patent law, it did change procedural practice compared to the EPC in force before, drafted in 1973. This article looks at some key features of the European patent grant and post-grant procedures that either have changed fundamentally or have been newly introduced, and their effect on patent document collections.     

浅谈无形资产评估

阐述了无形资产的特点及评估程序，进一步论述了在中外合资、合作经营企业中无形资产评估的作用及深刻的意义。     

全球智能电视姿势识别专利分析

综合运用TDA、Innography等多种分析工具,对德温特增值专利数据库中的用于智能电视的全球姿势识别专利进行总体趋势及创新技术人才等分析,主要包括专利技术总体发展趋势、全球专利市场布局、专利技术国家分布、热点技术领域、前沿技术、创新团队、重要专利等,以期帮助企业了解智能电视姿势识别技术的发展趋势和主要竞争对手情况,为智能电视姿势识别技术合作研究和产业发展提供借鉴。