JP6517521B2 - Intellectual Property Rating System - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to the rating of intellectual property rights such as patent rights.

  In recent years, intellectual property rights are individually managed in each country, and patent owners, trademark holders, etc. individually set the right of use and the right of use, and use thereof is attempted. In the prior art, the procedure is complicated because the right holder such as the patent holder or the trademark holder individually gives a license to a third party who wants to use the intellectual property right. In addition, there is also a disadvantage that the procedure is complicated unless it is a global company with reasonable international use, and it is specialized and can not be easily used.

  On the other hand, securitization of intellectual property rights is also being carried out, for example, Nihon Keizai Shimbun Electronic Edition, October 25, 2014 "US-based" patent listing "card spread and wireless LAN" (http: //www.nikkei .com / article / DGXLASGM1500T_V21C14A0MM0000 /: Non-Patent Document 1) describes that the international intellectual property exchange is established and the collective right to use is listed. The spread of such securitization will improve the availability of intellectual property rights, and it is expected that intellectual property rights will be more effectively and easily used. For example, taking the US as an example, in the United States, intellectual property rights are said to be the largest asset class in the United States for intellectual property with a market value of approximately $ 9 trillion and 1 trillion annually. It is one of the world's leading asset classes, with more than a dollar invested in intangible asset creation.

  Also, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2000-268111 (Patent Document 1) describes an online transaction system and method of patents and licenses, and is efficient and reliable for selling and licensing intellectual property rights. An e-commerce system has been proposed. Patent Document 1 describes that a database for calculating a license compensation proposal amount of an intellectual property right is provided, and the liquidity of the intellectual property right is enhanced by calculating a royalty equivalent amount.

JP, 2000-268111, A

Nihon Keizai Shimbun Electronic Edition October 25, 2014 "US-based" patent listed "spread card payment and wireless LAN" (http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXLASGM1500T_V21C14A0MM0000/ (downloaded on November 10, 2014)

  As described above, although various efforts have been made to improve the availability of intellectual property rights, what value the target intellectual property rights have, such as card settlement and wireless LAN Even important technologies can not be easily judged, and despite the huge market size, there has been a problem that the appropriateness of securities prices is unclear. Therefore, if it is possible to rate intellectual property rights, it is possible to proceed more smoothly with the acquisition of securities prices in the securities market of intellectual property rights, specifically, detected transfer, license rights, use rights, etc. It is thought that it becomes.

That is, according to the present invention, there is provided a system for rating intellectual property rights via a network, said system comprising:
A rating server that receives an expert's evaluation of intellectual property rights via a network connected by secure communication and determines its rating;
A request from a user terminal desiring to determine the rating of the intellectual property right is received via the network, the rating is retrieved according to the request, and the rating evaluation of the intellectual property right is performed according to the following formula (1) A rating providing server for generating values and displaying intellectual property rights in descending order of the rating evaluation value , and (0039)




(In the above formula (1), i is a variable that specifies evaluation items such as technicality, internationality, marketability, etc., N is the number of evaluation items, and Wi is an evaluation item specified by the user. Weighting coefficient in a certain case Ei is a score for each evaluation item for enabling evaluation value evaluation, and Wi is 1 for a specific evaluation item if there is no specific designation by the user Is a function in which one or more Wi values are set for designated evaluation items, and 0 is set for non-designated evaluation items.)
The rating server is
Internationality Evaluation Department which evaluates information including application number, status regarding possibility of multinational establishment of intellectual property right through the network,
The world's population of the domain where intellectual property rights may or may not be established as rights through the network, where the intellectual property right may or may not be established. A marketability evaluation unit that evaluates using a marketability DB that determines the ratio of the area population to the area and registers the ratio as marketability;
A rating determination unit that determines at least multilaterality and marketability of intellectual property rights using the evaluation of the internationality evaluation unit and the marketability evaluation unit;
Including
The rating providing server, in response to the search result, guides access to the patent market, or receives a second search condition from the user terminal and executes a second search, and searches An intellectual property rating system is provided that displays the rating evaluation values of primary property rights in descending order .

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a system and program for providing a fair intellectual property rating based on information determined by a professional.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The figure which shows the schematic structure of the intellectual property rating system 100 of this embodiment. FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of a schematic functional block 200 of a rating server 120 of the present embodiment. The figure which shows embodiment of the rating table 300 which the rating provision server 110 manages in rating DB111 in this embodiment. The figure which shows the embodiment of the technicality information table 400 which technicality DB121 of this embodiment manages. The figure which shows embodiment of the internationality information table 500 stored in internationality DB122 in this embodiment. The figure which shows embodiment of the marketability table 600 which marketability DB123 of this embodiment stores. The figure which shows an example of embodiment of the rating information table 700 which the rating determination part 206 of the rating server 120 uses. The figure which shows the flowchart of the process which the rating server 120 of this embodiment performs. Flow chart of processing executed by the rating providing server 110 when the user who wants to know the rating for a specific patent accesses the rating providing server 110 from the user terminal FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a hardware configuration of an information processing apparatus 1000 for configuring the rating providing server 110 and the rating server 120 of the present embodiment.

100: Intellectual Property Rating System 101: Network 102: Computer 103: Smart Phone 104: Tablet Terminal 110: Rating Providing Server 120: Rating Server 121: Database 200: Function Block 201: Network I / F
202: access unit 203: technology evaluation unit 204: international nature evaluation unit 205: marketability evaluation unit 206: rating determination unit 207: access unit 210: network I / F
300: Rating table 400: Technicality information table 500: Internationality information table 600: Marketability table 700: Rating information table 1000: Information processing device 1001: CPU
1002: Memory 1003: Driver 1004: Display 1005: Network device (NIC)
1006: Bridge 1007: Storage device 1008: Input device 1009: I / O bus 1010: Bus

  FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of an intellectual property rating system 100 according to the present embodiment. In the system shown in FIG. 1, a plurality of computers 102, smart phones 103, and user terminals such as a tablet terminal 104 are connected via a network 101 such as the Internet. Further, a rating providing server 110 and a rating server 120 are connected to the network 101, and perform mutual communication with user terminals.

  The rating providing server 110 manages a rating DB 111, which is a database obtained by rating intellectual property rights, and provides ratings assigned to intellectual property rights such as patents in response to a search request from a user terminal. Do. Although the intellectual property right will be described as being a patent right for the purpose of making the description specific, the present embodiment is not limited to the patent right, and the utility model right, the design right, the trademark It is also applicable to rights and copyrights.

  The access from the user terminal to the rating providing server 110 can be realized using SQL (Structured Query Language) using an HTTP protocol or the like. Correspondingly, the rating providing server 110 has a web server function, and an interface capable of processing SQL, such as a relational database or an object oriented database.

  The rating server 120 provides a function of rating a patent. In order to provide this function, the rating server 120 uses a technology DB 121 for storing patentability information, an internationality DB 122 for storing information on multilateral rights, and a technology related to the patent. It has a marketability DB 123 for storing market size information.

  Rating server 120 receives technical information, internationality information, and marketability information sent from an expert selected by the system operator among the user terminals shown in FIG. 1, and responds to the respective information. It has a function of storing in the databases 121 to 123. In addition, the rating server 120 provides a function of generating a rating of a patent based on each stored information. The generated rating is provided to the rating providing server 110 using inter-server communication, and stored in the rating DB 111 as the rating of the corresponding patent.

  Note that the user terminal and the rating server 120 are interconnected by a secure communication protocol, for example, SSL, VPN, virtual tunneling, etc., and by excluding access by a third party, non-rating information is not available. Openness is secured. Furthermore, inter-server communication between the rating providing server 110 and the rating server 120 is similarly connected by VPN, virtual tunneling, or the like, and is configured to be able to exclude third party access.

  FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of the schematic functional block 200 of the rating server 120 of the present embodiment. The functional blocks of the rating server 120 shown in FIG. 2 are configured by causing a processor (CPU) to execute a program to cause a computer to function as the corresponding functional means. The rating server 120 includes a network I / F 210, a user access unit 202, and a database access unit 207.

  The network I / F 201 is configured by a network interface card (NIC) and software to perform information transmission with the network 101, and provides the functions of layers 1 to 4 in the OSI basic reference model. Do. The user access unit 202 provides layer 4 functions in the OSI basic reference model, and can provide the HTTP protocol as a processable web server. Furthermore, the database access unit 207 provides a function that enables access to the databases 121 to 123 managed by the rating server 120, and can be implemented as, for example, an SQL processing unit.

  Furthermore, the rating server 120 includes a technology evaluation unit 203, an international evaluation unit 204, a marketability evaluation unit 205, and a rating determination unit 206. Each of these functional units can be configured by a server program such as JAVA (registered trademark), PHP, PERL, PYTHON, etc., and receives data extracted by the user access unit and executes each process.

  The technology evaluation unit 203 provides a function of extracting the determination information of the technology level sent from the expert and storing the information in the database. The determination information on the technical level can include classification information on the technical field, such as IPC, in addition to information on whether the technology of the patent is basic or applicable. When the intellectual property right is a design, a trademark, a copyright, etc., there may be no item called “technical evaluation”. In this case, the technical evaluation unit 203 uses “null” as the item without technical item DB121. Can be registered.

  Also, the international character evaluation unit 204 receives multi-country establishment information of the patent similarly sent from the expert along with the application number, status and other information. And whether the corresponding patent can be established as a global right or not, for example, the European Community, the African Community, ASEAN, East Asia-India Region, TPP, the Eurasian Economic Alliance in force on January 1, 2015, etc. Provide a function to store internationality information, such as whether there is regional validity or whether only domestic rights can be established, in a database.

  The marketability evaluation unit 205 provides a function of judging the marketability of the area in which a patent is established or may be established as a ratio of the area population to the world population, and registering the ratio in the database. Furthermore, the rating determination unit 206 provides a function of generating rating information of a patent from information registered in each database and sending it to the rating providing server 110. In addition, when there are multiple experts in each evaluation of technicality, internationality and marketability, it is possible to determine the optimum evaluation by applying statistical processing known so far, such as adopting the largest number of evaluations. it can.

  FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of a rating table 300 managed by the rating providing server 110 in the rating DB 111 in the present embodiment. The rating table 300 manages patent identification values such as patent numbers, application numbers, and international application numbers in association with technical evaluation values, international evaluation values, marketability evaluation values, and rating evaluation values. Upon receiving each piece of rating information from the rating server 120, the rating providing server 110 combines the pieces of information, generates a rating evaluation to be presented to the user terminal, and registers the rating evaluation in the rating DB 111.

  In the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, each evaluation value is generated by a combination of alphabet and + or-sign, and A +, A, A-, etc. are given in descending order of evaluation. In addition, the rating providing server 110 is provided with a rating evaluation unit that combines a technical evaluation value, an international evaluation value, and a marketability evaluation value in the order of registration on the right side simply to generate a rating evaluation value. Indicates that the rating evaluation value is generated, for example, as “ABB” for the right of patent identification value = 1.

FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of the technicality information table 400 managed by the technicality DB 121 of the present embodiment. From the expert, the technical level judged by the expert's examination of each technology is, for example, "backbone 1", "backbone 2", "backbone 3", "application", "improvement", "DMS (domestic)" etc. Will be sent as For example, the evaluation value A ⁺ is assigned to the backbone 1, the evaluation value A is allocated to the backbone 2, and A ⁻ is assigned to the “backbone 3”. The details of the assignment process will be described later.

  FIG. 5 is an embodiment of the internationality information table 500 stored in the internationality DB 122 in the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 5, the international character evaluation is given as "EAS-CN", "G", "AS-IN", "JP". For example, the rating "G" indicates that rights may or may occur in major international countries. The evaluation "EAS-CN" indicates that there is a possibility of rights generation or a right generation in the East Asia-China region including Southeast Asia. In addition, the evaluation "AS-IN" indicates that there is a possibility or the occurrence of a right in a region including Southeast Asia to India. Other evaluation "JP" indicates that only domestic rights may or may not occur, and use JP, abbreviations such as American AM, German DE, British GB, Australian AU, Chinese CN, etc. Can.

  FIG. 6 shows an embodiment of the marketability table 600 stored in the marketability DB 123 of this embodiment. The marketability DB 123 shown in FIG. 6 can be sent from an expert, or using the internationality information shown in FIG. 5 sent from an expert, and the rating server 120 can calculate the ratio of the region or country to the world population. It can be calculated and registered in the marketability table 600. For example, since “EAS-CN” has the possibility of rights generation or right generation in the East Asia-China region including Southeast Asia, the rough total population of the region is set at 2 billion and determined as a ratio to the world population . In addition, when there is a possibility of the occurrence of rights or the occurrence of rights in major countries in the world, the sum of the population of the area where the rights occur can be divided by the world population to make a ratio.

  FIG. 7 shows an example of an embodiment of the rating information table 700 used by the rating determination unit 206 of the rating server 120. As shown in FIG. 7, evaluation values are assigned corresponding to each evaluation, and the rating server 120 generates evaluation values while referring to the values of the respective DBs 121 to 123. The generated evaluation value is sent to the rating providing server 110 and used to generate the rating table 300 shown in FIG.

  FIG. 8 shows a flowchart of processing executed by the rating server 120 according to the present embodiment. The process of FIG. 8 starts from step S800, and in step S801, patent information of each country is acquired for the patent identification value. In step S802, the patent identification value is sent to the terminal of the expert via the network. In step S803, evaluations of technicality, internationality, and marketability (in a specific embodiment) are obtained from the expert and registered in each database. In step S804, the rating determination unit 206 refers to the evaluation of each DB, determines an evaluation value, and sends each evaluation value to the rating DB 111, thereby accumulating expert information in the rating DB 111. Thereafter, in step S805, a series of evaluations of the target patent are completed.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart of processing executed by the rating providing server 110 when the user who wants to know the rating of a specific patent accesses the rating providing server 110 from the user terminal. The rating providing server 110 starts the process in step S900, and the user accesses the rating DB 111 through the network in step S901. In step S 902, the user sends a patent identification value, internationality information, marketability information, and the like to the rating providing server 110.

  In step S 903, for example, assuming that the patent identification value is sent from the user, the rating providing server 110 causes the rating evaluation value of the corresponding patent to be displayed. In step S904, it is determined whether or not the user is satisfied with the search result, for example, based on whether or not the re-search instruction has been received, and if the user is satisfied (yes), the process is branched to step S908. Access to the desired document, and the process ends at step S909.

If the user is not satisfied with the search result in step S904 (no), another desired search condition or a combination thereof is specified in step S905. In step S906, the patent is searched under the specified search condition, and the rating evaluation value is displayed in descending order along with the patent identification value. The display order of the rating in step S 906 can be performed, for example, by the following equation (1). Incidentally, Patent identification value of the display, for example rating only can be redirected to the technical properties DB121 of servers 120, immediately the user, is it possible to get additional information retrieved Intellectual Property May be

In the above equation (1), i is a variable specifying an evaluation item such as technicality, internationality, marketability, etc., N is the number of evaluation items, and Wi is an evaluation item specified by the user. In this case, E _i is an evaluation value assigned as A + = 10, A = 9, A-8, B + = 5, B = 4, B- = 3, C = 2, D = 1, etc. It is a score for making calculation possible.

  In addition, when there is no specific designation by the user, 1 is specified for the specific evaluation item, 1 or more Wi values are set for the specified evaluation item, and for the evaluation items not specified. It can be a function that is set to zero. At this time, equation (1) can be multiplied by the normalization constant to enable normalization of the Score value.

  In step S 907, it is determined by a command sent from the user whether or not there is a patent of a rating desired by the user. If there is no patent (No), the process branches to step S 909 to end the process. On the other hand, if there is a desired patent (yes), the patent market can be accessed in step S 908 to purchase securities specifying the desired implementation format. In addition, since the technology provided by the market is not the gist of the present invention, detailed description is omitted. By the above processing, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to provide a system and a program for providing a fair intellectual property rating based on the information determined by the expert.

  FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a hardware configuration of the information processing apparatus 1000 for configuring the rating providing server 110 and the rating server 120 according to the present embodiment. An information processing apparatus 1000 according to the present invention includes a central processing unit (CPU) 1001 and a memory 1002 which is formed of a solid-state memory element such as a RAM or a DRAM which enables processing of the CPU 1001. The CPU 1001 and the memory 1002 are connected to other devices or drivers of the information processing apparatus 1000, for example, the graphics driver 1003 and a network device (NIC) 1005 via the system bus 1010. The graphics driver 1003 is connected to the display 1004 via an appropriate bus to display the processing result of the CPU 1001 on the display screen.

  Also, the network device 1005 connects the information processing apparatus 1000 to the network at the transport layer level and the physical layer level to establish a session with the user terminal.

  An I / O bus bridge 1006 is further connected to the system bus 1010. A storage device 1007 such as a hard disk is connected to the downstream side of the I / O bus bridge 1006 by an IDE, ATA, ATAPI, serial ATA, SCSI, USB, etc. via an I / O bus 1009 such as PCI. There is. Further, an input device 1008 such as a keyboard and a pointing device such as a mouse is connected to the I / O bus 1009 via a bus such as USB, and receives inputs and commands from an operator such as a system administrator.

  More specifically, as the CPU 1001 used by the information processing apparatus 10, for example, PENTIUM (registered trademark) to PENTIUM (registered trademark) IV, PENTIUM (registered trademark) compatible CPU, CORE 2 DUO (registered trademark), COREi 3 to i 7 ( Mention may be made of registered trademark), POWER PC (registered trademark), MIPS and the like.

  Moreover, as an operating system (OS) to be used, MacOS (trademark), Windows (trademark), Windows (trademark) 20XX Server, UNIX (trademark), AIX (trademark), LINUX (trademark) or Other suitable OS can be mentioned. Furthermore, the information processing apparatus 10 stores an application program described in an object-oriented programming language such as C ++, Visual C ++, VisualBasic, Java (registered trademark), Perl, Ruby, etc., which operates on the above-described OS. Run.

  The above functions of this embodiment are described in an object-oriented programming language such as C ++, Java (registered trademark), Java (registered trademark) Bean, Java (registered trademark) Applet, Java (registered trademark) Script, Perl, Ruby, etc. The program can be realized by a device executable program, and can be stored and distributed in a device readable recording medium.

<Specific embodiment assumed by applicant>
By including at least one patent attorney in the judgment experts of each technology, it is possible to provide certainty based on the judgment of technology and patentability as well as to improve the social importance of the patent attorney. Also, for example, in the case of ranking intellectual property rights, the rank can be assigned the highest rank of 8 according to the following criteria. Note that the display in the parentheses shows an aspect in the case where the sumo numbering is temporarily assigned.
Aspect of the technical level represented by the index 1, minimum level achieved
2, Invention to feel the element that shines something
3, Inventions of basic level (ten)
4 and many other inventions, most numerous. (In the curtain)
5, average invention (Ozeki)
6, a little better, one more breath inventing invention (Yokona)
7, very good invention, rarely added (large yokozuna)
8, excellent invention, the level of emergence rate is really (light lightning or Futaba)

  Although other gambling can be displayed, the system of the present invention basically does not give a low risk, high return rank. In other embodiments, expert's (subjective) comments may be annotated, eg, "There is no hand that does not use this technology."

  It is also possible to imagine technical assets that can be added to intellectual property rights. For example, in particular, although a patent in a product consumption area can be patented, it is emphasized that the expert has verified the validity of a patent that has been prepaid for refusal in a specific country for rejection reasons. It is to excavate and introduce. In this case, the technology and referral exactly according to the view of the granting agency are not targeted for ranking.

  In addition, although it is said that 40% of the in-house inventions have not been filed for know-how retention, the evaluation in the present invention has been made while considering that the intellectual property right to be evaluated does not fall under company confidential disclosure. It can be included in the target, and the number of cases to be dealt with can be tripled in Japan compared to the number of patents alone. In addition, the present invention is a technology that differs from "patent trial", such as creating a technology map, in that it ranks the new technology itself. Furthermore, although a patent that has been rejected can be considered for consideration, it can also be ranked if it has a predetermined rank, eg, 5 to 8 in the above ranking.

  In addition, it can be classified as a separate framework technology, for example, nuclear fusion, space elevator, STAP cells, a space solar light blocking device, a magnesium circulation system, etc. can be classified and released as a dream technology. In addition, evaluation experts, evaluation methods, rankings, etc. can be standardized to become ISO-like standards and function as private or public rating agencies. Further, the system of the present invention (whose name is GXP) can be used for calculation of evaluation and compensation calculation when paying the proper invention fee to the inventor in companies, universities, public offices and others.

  Although the present invention has been described above by the embodiment, the present invention is not limited to the embodiment shown in the drawings, and other embodiments, additions, modifications, deletions, etc. can be conceived by those skilled in the art. The invention can be modified within the scope of the invention, and any modifications are possible within the scope of the present invention as long as the functions and effects of the present invention are exhibited.

Claims (3)

A system for rating intellectual property rights via a network, said system comprising:
A rating server implemented as a web server that receives the expert's evaluation of intellectual property rights via a network connected by secure communication and determines its rating;
A request from a user terminal desiring to determine the rating of the intellectual property right is received via the network, the rating is retrieved according to the request, and the rating evaluation of the intellectual property right is performed according to the following formula (1) A rating providing server that generates values and displays intellectual property rights in descending order of said rating value ,

(In the above formula (1), i is a variable that specifies evaluation items such as technicality, internationality, marketability, etc., N is the number of evaluation items, and Wi is an evaluation item specified by the user. Weighting coefficient in a certain case Ei is a score for each evaluation item for enabling evaluation value evaluation, and Wi is 1 for a specific evaluation item if there is no specific designation by the user Is a function in which one or more Wi values are set for designated evaluation items, and 0 is set for non-designated evaluation items.)
The rating server is
Internationality Evaluation Department which evaluates information including application number, status regarding possibility of multinational establishment of intellectual property right through the network,
The world's population of the domain where intellectual property rights may or may not be established as rights through the network, where the intellectual property right may or may not be established. A marketability evaluation unit that evaluates using a marketability DB that determines the ratio of the area population to the area and registers the ratio as the marketability;
A rating determination unit that determines at least multilaterality and marketability of intellectual property rights using the evaluation of the internationality evaluation unit and the marketability evaluation unit;
Including
The rating providing server, in response to the search result, guides access to the patent market, or receives a second search condition from the user terminal and executes a second search, and searches Intellectual property rating system that displays the rating evaluation values of intellectual property rights in descending order .   The rating server further includes a technology evaluation unit that evaluates information on the technology of the intellectual property right, and the rating determination unit determines an evaluation value on the technology using the evaluation of the technology evaluation unit. An intellectual property rating system according to claim 1.   3. The international rating database according to claim 1, wherein the rating server includes an internationality DB which classifies and registers the possibility of multinational establishment on the basis of at least global, regional and domestic availability. Intellectual Property Rating System.