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http://dx.doi.org/10.15207/JKCS.2017.8.8.001

Patenting Trend of Internet of Things(IoT) in China  

Han, Yoo-Jin (School of Global Service, Sookmyung Women's University)
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Journal of the Korea Convergence Society / v.8, no.8, 2017 , pp. 1-8 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, the technological development in the Internet of Things(IoT) field has grown rapidly worldwide and China is also expected to show a noticeable growth trend in this field. Therefore, the aim of this research is to analyze the recent trend of Chinese patents in the IoT field. China has been very active between 2010 and 2014, surpassing USA, and the this trend will accelerate in the future. The results of the analysis are as follows. First, the number of IoT-related patents in China increased rapidly from 2010 to 2014. Second, the major actors that led this quantitative increase are firms including ZTE and higher education institutes such as Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Lastly, major technological fields and the convergence networks amongst those fields were analyzed. As a result, it was found that the patenting activity in H04L was the most active and this field has led the convergence among other technological fields.
Keywords
Internet-of-Things(IoT); China; Patent; Convergence; IPC;
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