• 농업과학연구
• /
• 제45권1호
• /
• pp.114-119
• /
• 2018

This study analyzed the trends of patents for unmanned technology used in agriculture. The target countries for this survey of patent data were Korea, the USA and Japan as well as the countries in Europe. The indices used in this study to analyze the patents were the CPP (Cites Per Patent), PII (Patent Impact Index), and PFS (Patent Family Size). The total effective patents for unmanned technology used in agriculture were 1,080 cases. The number of patents in the USA, Japan, Europe, and Korea were 541, 326, 128 and 85 cases, respectively. Among the total effective patents, the evaluation scores for selected important patents were calculated by applying commonly used weights to each index, and the top 10 patents were selected as important patents. The results showed that all the top ten patents are owned by the United States and that the United States is an advanced country in the field of unmanned technology used in agriculture. The evaluation score of the important patents using the existing method was biased toward the PII index among the three patent evaluation standards, and the effects of the number of claims and the PFS were relatively small. Therefore, a reliable patent analysis in the field of unmanned technology used in agriculture needs to reflect the overall evaluation factors taking into consideration the scope of the evaluation factors.

• 공학교육연구
• /
• 제21권6호
• /
• pp.81-89
• /
• 2018

Patents have been recognized as a core knowledge asset which are closely related with company's technological competitiveness. However, only a small portion of patents are actually contributing to the profit of the company. In addition, it costs a lot of money continuously to maintain the patent rights regardless of their values. Thus, effective methodologies are required to create patents with high values. It is examined what kind of differences exist between high value patents and the others in the use of TRIZ methodologies. For the purpose, we analyzed the US granted patents of Samsung Electronics. The analysis shows that there is no significant difference in the use of inventive principles, but high value patents utilize 'separation by condition' the most where as the others 'separation by space' the most frequently in the use of separation principles. In the use of standard solutions, high value patents use the 'class 2' principles frequently than the others.

• 대한인간공학회지
• /
• 제34권5호
• /
• pp.473-485
• /
• 2015

Objective: This study provides strategies of how to effectively convert an invention, created at universities or government-funded research institutes, into a strong patent with the clear understanding of its unique technological characteristics. Background: Regardless of the amount of research funds available in our country and the decent number of intellectual property rights created using the funds, there was a deficit of more than KRW 6 trillion in the technology trade balance related with intellectual property rights in the year of 2014. One of the reasons was that the vast number of patents that were being produced by universities or by government-funded research institutes were merely performance-based patents, namely, so called "patents for patents". Another reason is that developed technology from research and development could not be transformed into a strong patent right properly due to the lack of related knowledge. Method: After reviewing various references mentioned on the patent strategies, the definition of a strong patent and the strategies of producing a strong patent for an invention drawn out from research performance will be supplied. Results: To produce a strong patent right at universities or government funded research institutes, one should use strategies for strong specifications, strategies of product patents and method patents, strategies of patent portfolios, strategies of know-how, strategies of inventions defined by numerical limitation and strategies of parameter inventions for a more strategic approach. Conclusion: Strong patent rights will be produced with the use of effective patent strategies provided in this study. Application: It is estimated that the results of this study will aid the establishment of strong patents for inventions developed by research performance at universities or government-funded research institutions.

• 대한방사성의약품학회지
• /
• 제7권1호
• /
• pp.11-21
• /
• 2021

Radiopharmaceuticals are constantly being studied in the field of tumor diagnosis and therapy. As a result, many patents have been registered related to the development of radiopharmaceutical therapy. In this study, effective patents related to radiology and nuclear medicine filed during the past 10 years were collected from various countries like Korea, United States, Japan, Europe etc., and the application trends and growth stages were analyzed through statistical analysis. From the analysis results of 47,991 patents related to radiology and nuclear medicine, only 6,268 registered patents were found valid, and 80% of those were related to radiopharmaceutical development. In addition, we analyzed the patent of major competitors and used them to analyze the trends in radioisotopes and medicinal research. Among these, all the top 10 major applicants have found to be concentrating on radiopharmaceutical development.

• 공업화학
• /
• 제26권3호
• /
• pp.294-305
• /
• 2015

본 특허정성분석은 "층상구조 기반의 리튬이차전지용 양극 활물질"의 우리나라, 미국, 일본, 유럽, PCT (WO)의 유효특허 1,294건을 분석한 것으로, 특허가 갖는 기술 중요도 부분과 특허 중요도 부분으로 나누어 Table 1과 같은 기준으로 평가하였고, 이를 토대로 104건의 주요특허와 20건의 핵심특허를 선정하였다. 그리고 선정된 주요특허와 핵심특허를 시계열적 기술 흐름도로 작성하여 각 기술 분류별로 특허 출원 시점과 발전 과정, 핵심특허의 위치를 확인하였다. 마지막으로 특허 분석 내용을 토대로 향후 기술개발을 위하여 현재 출원 등록된 기술들과의 차별화 방안 및 회피전략을 제시하였다.

• 지질공학
• /
• 제23권2호
• /
• pp.127-136
• /
• 2013

본 연구에서는 확공비트에 대한 향후 연구개발 방향을 설정하기 위하여 전체 굴착비트에 대한 한국, 미국, 일본 및 유럽에서의 출원 공개/등록된 특허를 중심으로 특허 동향을 분석하였다. 굴착비트를 대상으로 1차적으로 굴착기능에 따라 확공구조와 고정구조로 분류하고, 2차적으로 굴착방식에 따라 슬라이딩 구조, 컨센트릭 구조 등 7가지로 분류하였다. 특허 검색 결과 총 33,614개가 검색되었으며 중복제거 및 필터링을 통하여 870건의 유효 분석대상 특허를 선별하였다. 특허건수와 출원인수의 상관관계를 이용한 포트폴리오 분석 결과 성장가능성이 가장 높다고 판단되는 슬라이딩구조를 핵심기술로 선정하였으며 이에 대한 특허장벽 분석을 통하여 핵심기술과 유사성이 높은 특허가 있을 경우 회피설계 및 타기술과 차별화된 기술 개발할 수 있는 기초자료를 제시하였다.

• 대한한방내과학회지
• /
• 제41권6호
• /
• pp.1141-1161
• /
• 2020

Objectives: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease of the elderly characterized by impaired behavior from lack of dopamine secretion. However, no accurate quantitative diagnosis method has been established. The purpose of this study was to analyze the patent trends (PTs) of health examination and daily monitoring/healthcare technology for PD. Methods: For analyzing PTs, a search summary for classifying each analysis target technology was set, and a final search formula was constructed by collecting keywords. After constructing a database of related patents through the final search formula, noise was removed to extract valid patents. PTs by major countries were analyzed using the valid patents, and PTs and growth stages were analyzed by the detailed technologies. Results: The survey analysis showed that, despite the existence of unpublished patents between 2018 and 2020, patent activity has increased rapidly in the recent period, and this increasing trend was led by the USA. This technology is considered to be in its early- or mid-stage growth period, which means that the marketability is high and the barriers are low. Korea's market share is only about 25%, but it has a larger number of applications than those of Europe and Japan. Integrated monitoring and diagnosis technologies for PD have a share of 34%. Conclusion: The advances in diagnosis and healthcare technology for PD means that traditional Korean medicine must continue to pay attention to related technologies and to review plans that are applicable to clinical practice.

• 상하수도학회지
• /
• 제22권3호
• /
• pp.343-350
• /
• 2008

Many reports have warned of insufficient water supply in most countries in future and prospected providing safe and clean water become more difficult by lack of access to sustainable drinking water resources. Several facts and figures explained the impact by natural climate change and human activity results in the water scarcity and deterioration. Among many scientific solutions, the seawater desalination using a reverse osmosis membrane, so called SWRO (Seawater Reverse Osmosis) process, has been recognized as one of the most promising alternatives because of its stability and efficiency in producing large amount of drinking water from seawater through desalination by membrane filtration. Recently, in Korea, numerous researches are conducted to develop more productive and cost effective SWRO process for its wide implementation. The objective of this paper is to review the patents concerning SWRO technologies involving the plant engineering, maintenance including pretreatment of seawater and fouling control, module design, and mechanical units development for energy saving. The patents in Korea, U.S., Japan, Europe, and PCT were intensively researched and analyzed to provide the state of the art as well as leading edge technology on SWRO. This information can hopefully suggest meaningful guidelines on future research and development.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
• /
• 제13권6호
• /
• pp.461-472
• /
• 2019

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Globally, it has been projected that there will be 2 billion overweight and 1 billion obese individuals by 2030. In Korea, the prevalence of adult obesity (BMI > 25) increased from 29.7% in 2009 to 32.4% in 2015. Moreover, childhood obesity, which leads to adulthood obesity, has increasingly become a social problem. The purpose of this review is to summarize the scientific basis for the development of effective models and policies aimed at preventing obesity over a lifetime based on research modeling obesogenic environments. MATERIALS/METHODS: The review focuses on the characteristics of obesity prevalence and trends in 3P analysis (papers, patents, and products) as well as government-funded projects in Korean obesity obesogenic environments over the last 10 years. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: As a result of the 3P analysis, studies on obesity risk factors were frequently carried out, according to two data bases RISS (4.9%) and PubMed (24.7%). Since there were only 17% patents related to the mechanism of preventing obesity in 7,951 Korean patents related to obesity, new paradigms of technologies to dominate the global obesity markets are needed. After government-funded projects were analyzed, communication and cooperation in multi-governmental departments were suggested to elucidate the characteristics of Korean obesity. Government should also produce short- and long-term road maps to develop a practical, successful outcome. Although the rate of obesity in Korea is currently lower than in other developed countries according to WHO criteria, without adequate governmental intervention, obesity rates will approach those of the top countries with high incidence rates of obesity within the next 10 years.

• 기술혁신연구
• /
• 제24권2호
• /
• pp.143-175
• /
• 2016

본 연구는 기업 혁신 산업 특성이 기업의 전유전략에 미치는 영향을 특허와 영업비밀의 상대적 선호를 중심을 '한국기업혁신조사' 2005, 2010, 2014년 자료를 통해 분석하였다. 분석결과 벤처기업, 고기술산업에 속한 기업, 정부의 연구개발 자금지원을 받은 기업, 제품혁신 수행기업과 연구개발 지출이 높은 기업에서 특허를 영업비밀보다 상대적으로 선호하는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 기업규모와 연구개발 협력여부는 통계적으로 유의한 영향을 미치지 않았다. 이는 산업별 특성을 고려한 전유제도 정책이 보다 효과적일 수 있다는 것을 보여준다. 높은 시장집중도를 가진 산업에 속한 기업들은 영업비밀을 선호하는 것으로 나타났으며, 이러한 특성은 소기업과 벤처기업에서 명확히 나타났다. 이는 선도기업의 전략적 특허출원의 증가가 소기업과 벤처기업의 특허활동을 제약할 수 있다는 것을 의미한다. 과도한 전략적 특허의 증가는 궁극적으로 소규모 기업들의 기술활동을 저해할 가능성이 있기 때문에 불필요한 전략적 특허의 남용을 방지할 수 있는 정책적 노력이 필요할 것이다.