Consumer driven product technology function deployment using social media and patent mining

The capability of identifying real-time customer needs is critical for manufacturers that provide short life cycle consumer products such as smart phones. Companies need to form research and development (R&D) strategies to improve key functional features for short lifespan products to reflect the adoption of innovative technologies and changing customer expectations. With the pervasive use of the Internet, this research crawls and analyzes the online voice of customers (VoC), overcoming the time lag of offline surveys, to identify and prioritize product functions for deployment using extended quality function deployment (eQFD) models. In this research, the novel analytics of the manufacturer’s patent portfolio is added as an additional eQFD dimension to map ranked functional improvements to a manufacturer’s R&D capabilities. Thus, a computer supported eQFD system is developed to perform the unique mappings and gap analyses between the VoC, the prioritized product functions, and the manufacturer’s patent portfolio. The newly developed eQFD methodology and its novel discoveries are demonstrated in detail using a case study of three smart phones launched during the same time frame. The products include the Samsung Galaxy S7, the Huawei Honor 5X, and the ASUS Zenfone 3. The newly developed methodology is generally applicable to support VoC-centric product function deployment and R&D strategic planning in other domains.     

A two-level parser for patent claim parsing

Patent claim parsing can contribute in many patent-related applications, such as patent search, information extraction, machine translation and summarization. However, patent claim parsing is difficult due to the special structure of patent claims. To overcome this difficulty, the challenges facing the patent claim parsing were first investigated and the peculiarities of claim syntax that obstruct dependency parsing were highlighted. To handle these peculiarities, this study proposes a new two-level parser, in which a conventional parser is imbedded. A patent claim is pre-processed in order to remove peculiarities before passed to the conventional parser. The process is based on a new dependency-based syntax called Independent Claim Segment Dependency Syntax (ICSDS). This two-lever parser has demonstrated promising improvement for patent claim parsing on both effectiveness and efficiency over the conventional parser.     

基于PatentStrategies的石墨烯探测器专利技术分析

石墨烯以其优异的光电性能,广泛应用于传感器、信息及能源等领域。基于PatentStrategies专利分析系统,对全球和中国石墨烯探测器专利技术进行专利授权、布局、技术来源、竞争力、IPC分类等角度的分析,在挖掘该研究领域核心专利的基础上,进一步分析石墨烯探测器领域的核心专利情况。该分析可为石墨烯探测器研发人员提供重要参考。     

微生物发酵饲料菌株专利分析

以中文数据库中的检索结果为样本,采用定性分析与定量分析相结合的方式对微生物发酵饲料领域进行一次全面的统计分析,总结了微生物发酵饲料的现状和发展趋势,以及在中国的申请量、主要申请人在该领域的研究水平和专利申请状况,为国内企业的研发方向提出了建议,同时为国内申请人如何布局及转化专利提供借鉴。最后结合微生物发酵饲料的优缺点,对其未来进行了展望。     

基于Eviews对专利申请和地区经济关系的协整检验

以西安市数据为例，构造专利申请和地区经济的模型，采用单位根检验和协整检验，研究专利申请和地区经济增长协整关系，得出结论专利申请与地方经济具有长期稳定的均衡关系，同时专利的发展对地方经济的增长有着正向上网促进作用，从长期来看，专利申请量对西安市GDP的弹性系数约为0.572113，表明专利申请量每增长1%，西安GDP将增长0.57%。     

Invention profiles and uneven growth in the field of emerging nano-energy

This paper aims to synthetically investigate invention profiles and uneven growth of technological knowledge in the emerging nano-energy field, based on patents data extracted from the Derwent Innovation Index (DII) database during the time period 1991–2012. The trend analysis shows that invention in this field has experienced enormous growth and also diversification over the past 22 years. The co-occurrence network of burst technology domains reveals that technology domains constantly burst, and innovative progress in nanotechnology has tremendously contributed to energy production, storage, conversion and harvesting and so on. Nano-energy patented inventions mainly come from a combinatorial process with a very limited role of developing brand-new technological capabilities. Reusing existing technological capabilities including recombination reuse, recombination creation and single reuse is the primary source of inventions. For the impacts of technology networks' embeddedness, we find that network tie strength suppresses the growth of technological knowledge domains, and network status and convergence both facilitate the growth of technological knowledge domains. We expect that this study will provide some enlightenment for inventing or creating new knowledge in emerging fields in complex technological environment.     

Patent portfolios of European wind industry: New insights using citation categories

This study explores the use of citation categories assigned by patent examiners to study overlap of patent portfolios among top wind power firms. Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) is used to obtain a sample of wind industry patents. CPC is shown to be better than the International Patent Classification for identifying patents relevant to the wind power industry. Results show high inter-firm citation among the top wind industry players that can suggest concentration of innovation. The results can be useful for patent analysts, technology managers and policy makers.     

When can strong patent regimes boost countries' stocks of inventions and related trade? An analytical model tested in Brazil,Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa in the energy,environment and pharmaceuticals and related sectors

A framework for assessing countries' promptness to strengthen their patent regimes to boost the stock and commercial exchanges of their inventions is developed using an intellectual capital model and a concept map model. It was tested in Brazil, Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa in the energy, environment and pharmaceuticals sectors. Thus far, the findings have shown that stronger patent regimes are very likely to bring the complementary users of inventions together (beacon function), to spur coordination of commercial exchanges for inventions (bargain function) and stimulate further inventions when the core components of the intellectual capital and financial capital have expanded to the point that the coordination of exchanges can gain momentum. Some of the innovation policy implications are discussed in the paper.