KR100719513B1 - Method and Server for Managing Dormant Patent Right - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of managing dormant patents and a server provided for the method.

In order to realize this, the present invention provides a server for managing dormant patents online, comprising: an information collection module for collecting information corresponding to the dormant patents; An analysis module for analyzing information including the technical content, usefulness, duration, technicality and business of the dormant patent; A clustering module for classifying the dormant patent according to a specific classification condition using the technical content of the dormant patent as a source; A packaging module for organizing and grouping information corresponding to the dormant patent according to a specific condition; A database unit including information corresponding to the technical contents of the dormant patent, information analyzed through the information collection module and analysis module of the dormant patent, and information classified and packaged through the clustering module and the packaging module; And a control module for controlling the information acquisition module, the analysis module, the clustering module, and the packaging module to smoothly manage the dormant patent management, sorting, clustering, and packaging functions. It provides a server for managing dormant patents online.

According to the present invention, by selecting whether or not a dormant patent is a useful patent, and collects and analyzes the information that can evaluate the technical value of the selected patent, the information that can evaluate the business feasibility and provide as additional information about the dormant patent In addition, even if it is a useful technology, it is possible to prevent the dormant patent rights which are not commercialized from being lost due to system waste.

Dormant Patent Screening, Patent Management System, Clustering, Packaging, Current Impact Index (CII), Science Linkage (SL)

Description

Method for managing dormant patents and a server therefor {Method and Server for Managing Dormant Patent Right}

1 is a block diagram illustrating a method of managing a dormant patent according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of a dormant patent management server according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a view for explaining a method of analyzing a business of a dormant patent by accessing a dormant patent management server according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of managing a dormant patent according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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202: dormant patent analysis module 204: information collection module

206: clustering module 208: packaging module

210: database unit 212: user information DB

214: dormant patent DB 216: business prediction DB

218: URL DB 220: user authentication module

222: control module

The present invention relates to a method of managing dormant patents and a server thereof. More specifically, in order to prevent the non-commercial dormant patents from becoming dead and to make it easier for SMEs to secure the necessary technology, the service of collecting, analyzing, and providing related additional information on registered patent technologies is provided. To a server and its method.

Companies seeking technology development have intellectual property rights, including patent rights, for the intellectualization of intellectual property, but there are intellectual property rights (hereinafter referred to as dormant patents) that are not yet commercialized despite the useful technology. Such dormant patents occur because of the inefficient management of intellectual property rights and the lack of organizations and manpower dedicated to patent application and registration for technology development and technology transfer, including licensing.

In order to take advantage of these dormant patents, information is bought and sold and free of charge, like the dormant patent utilization service of Utotech (www.utotech.com) and the stock exchange that trades stocks of the information exchange (www.buyinfo.co.kr). Services for exchanging and exchanging excellent patent technologies developed by domestic companies, research institutes, universities, and individuals in the Internet Patent Technology Marketplace (www.patentmart.or.kr) have been proposed. Since the contents of the patented technology are presented to the consumer and only a simple item for transaction transfer is proposed, the service provider analyzes and judges the usefulness of the dormant patent based on objective data and presents the index to the service user. Auxiliary materials for the service user to analyze the life, industry, market trend, economic feasibility and validity of the technology This method is required to provide.

In order to solve this problem, the present invention collects dormant patents owned by a company, constructs and manages them as a database, analyzes whether the dormant patents are useful patent technologies based on objective selection criteria, and analyzes the technical characteristics and market of the selected patents. It aims to provide a method of collecting related information for analyzing trends, business feasibility, economic feasibility, clustering by related items and providing them as packaging information and a server thereof.

Server for managing dormant patents on-line of the present invention made to achieve the above object, information collection module for collecting information corresponding to the dormant patents; An analysis module for analyzing information including the technical content, usefulness, duration, technicality and business of the dormant patent; A clustering module for classifying the dormant patent according to a specific classification condition using the technical content of the dormant patent as a source; A packaging module for organizing and grouping information corresponding to the dormant patent according to a specific condition; A database unit including information corresponding to the technical contents of the dormant patent, information analyzed through the information collection module and analysis module of the dormant patent, and information classified and packaged through the clustering module and the packaging module; And a control module for controlling the information collection module, the analysis module, the clustering module, and the packaging module to smoothly manage the dormant patent management, sorting, clustering, and packaging functions. The analysis module includes: a Current Impact Index (CII) index indicating the degree to which the technical content of the dormant patent is cited in other intellectual property rights, and the technical content of the dormant patent including a scientific paper and a research publication. Including the Science Linkage (SL) index, which indexes the degree to which knowledge is cited. Analyzing the usefulness of the dormant patent based on the index using the patent and the information using the indicator, and using the index and the index using the patent as well as other indexes that may be objective data in determining the technical usefulness of the dormant patent. The usefulness of the dormant patent is analyzed based on the information including the information, and the market scale of the dormant patent protected article stored in the database unit, market stability, technology development stage, the presence of competitive technology, and the state of patent rights of competitors Analyzing the business feasibility of the dormant patent based on the information comprising, and analyzing one or more information of the industrial field, the object of the invention or the effect of the invention to which the dormant patent is applied, wherein the clustering module is: Industrial purposes or inventions of the dormant patents as well as classifications by technical field Depending on the particular classification condition characterized by classifying the dormant patent.
In addition, the method for managing a dormant patent on-line according to the present invention made to achieve the above object, (a) collecting the information of the dormant patent; (b) determining the usefulness of the dormant patent; (c) analyzing the classification and business feasibility of the dormant patent based on the collected information; (d) classifying and clustering the analyzed information according to a predetermined specific condition; (e) packaging additional information including the information analyzed in the step (c) for the classified and clustered dormant patents and storing them in a database; And (f) registering as information for retrieving the dormant patent; and after the step (b), (b1) classifying the usefulness of the determined dormant patent according to a predetermined condition according to a predetermined condition; And (b2) determining whether or not the usefulness of the dormant patent is a predetermined or higher level of usefulness. The step (c) further includes dormant in which the usefulness of the specific level or higher is recognized in the step (b2). (B3) determining whether the dormant patent is a patent that has been requested to be licensed / transferred by a patent holder who owns the dormant patent; In addition, the step (c) is the process is performed only if the availability of the specific grade or higher in step (b2) or the registration request in step (b3) is received, in step (b), The usefulness is within the Current Impact Index (CII) index, which indicates the degree to which the technical content of the dormant patent is cited in other intellectual property rights and the technology of the dormant patent. An index using a patent including a Science Linkage (SL) index that indexes the degree of citation of expertise, including scientific publications and research publications, is calculated based on information using the index and the usefulness of the patent. The information is calculated based on the information including the index and the index, as well as other index information that may be objective data in determining the technical usefulness of the dormant patent. The information is an information extraction program embedded in the dormant patent management server. Is information extracted from a computer or inputted from a separate computer controlling the server, and in the step (c), the business performance is the market size of a product related to the dormant patent, market stability, technology development stage, competition technology. Calculation is based on information including the presence or absence of patent rights of competitors. The current impact index (CII), the science linkage (SL), the market size of the products related to the dormant patent, the stability of the market, the technology development step, The information including the presence or absence of the competitive technology and the patent rights of the competitor is information extracted by an information extraction program embedded in the dormant patent management server or information input from a separate computer controlling the server. do.
Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. First of all, in adding reference numerals to the components of each drawing, it should be noted that the same reference numerals have the same reference numerals as much as possible even if displayed on different drawings. In addition, in describing the present invention, when it is determined that the detailed description of the related well-known configuration or function may obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

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1 is a block diagram illustrating a method of managing a dormant patent according to an embodiment of the present invention.

A method of managing dormant patents in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes a first step 102 of collecting dormant patent information; A second step (104) of determining technical usefulness of the dormant patent; A third step (106) of analyzing relevant information for commercialization of the dormant patent; A fourth step (108) of clustering the information analyzed in the third step by the similar classification condition; A fifth step (110) of packaging additional information including analysis information, market information and economic feasibility information of the company corresponding to the dormant patent into information on the dormant patent; And a sixth step 112 of registering the packaged information about the dormant patent as search information.

Referring to Figure 1, the first step (102) of collecting the dormant patent information is a dormant patent information providing service company according to an embodiment of the present invention to collect the dormant patents owned by the company to build and manage the DB Step. This method of collecting dormant patent information includes not only information on a registered right including a holder of a registered patent, a registration number, and a term of existence, but also information necessary for analyzing a company that owns the dormant patent and an article corresponding to the dormant patent. Market information, and information necessary to determine the economic feasibility of the dormant patent.

The dormant patent information collection method may be various embodiments. However, in the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a holder of a dormant patent registers information registered according to a menu item provided by the dormant patent information providing service company and the dormant patent information providing service. It includes information corresponding to the dormant patent collected by the dormant patent management server provided by the company. The method and process for collecting the information corresponding to the dormant patent by the dormant patent management server will be described in more detail together with the server configuration in FIG. 2.

The second step 104 of determining the technical usefulness of the dormant patent is an objective data for evaluating the technical value of the dormant patent and is a current impact index indicating the degree to which the technical content of the dormant patent is cited in another patent application or a registered patent. (CII: Current Impact Index) using patent information including science linkage (SL) index information indicating the degree to which the information on the dormant patent and the technical contents of the dormant patent are cited, including scientific papers and research publications. Based on index and indicator information.

Such current Impact Index (CII) index information and Science Linkage (SL) index information are frequently cited in other applied patents, registered patents, or in scientific papers or similar research publications. It is an indicator of how much scientific research has been done and how closely it is related to the results of scientific research, thus ensuring the reliability of the technical usefulness of dormant patents.

In addition, the second step 104 of determining the technical usefulness may include objective data for determining the technical usefulness of the dormant patent in addition to the index using the current impact index index information, the index including the science linkage index information, and the index information. Other index information, which may be used, may be used to evaluate the technical value of the dormant patent. For example, the technical usefulness is determined by index information such as "progressive index" indicating how close the dormant patent is to the pioneering invention or "industrial index" indicating how adaptive the dormant patent is to the current industrial structure. It can be used as an objective data source.

In this case, the "progressive index" is an index that quantifies how much of the technology similar to the dormant patent is distributed or is a completely new pioneering invention (i.e., if there are already many similar technologies related to the target product, the progress index is "Industrialization index" is a numerical value of whether the product is approaching the degree of dissemination of peripheral devices, the degree of industrial development, and the current consumer's propensity when the dormant patent is commercialized. (I.e., even when the "progressive index" is high, the "industrial index" may appear to be low when the industrial development of the peripherals of the article is weak).

Index information that may be objective data in determining the technical usefulness of the dormant patent including the current impact index (CII) index information and the Science Linkage (SL) index information may be stored in the dormant patent management server. The built-in information extraction program includes information extracted for a patent registered as a management object in the server and information input from an administrator through a server control computer managing the server.

In addition, the technical usefulness of the dormant patent determined from the CII and / or SL index, etc., may be classified into a specific class and indexed. For example, it is possible to subdivide and determine how technically useful dormant patents are by classifying them into grades A and B.

The third step 106 of analyzing relevant information for commercialization of the dormant patent is a step of applying a more specific information acquisition method to the information collected in the first step through text mining or DB mining.

To this end, the patent management server performs a task of selecting and extracting desired information from the various information collected in the first step 102. As a means for this, a process called mining may be used. The process of information extraction utilized can also be applied.

In the present invention, the patent management server classifies and clusters information in response to a classification condition preset from an administrator for a dormant patent whose technical usefulness is recognized by a predetermined level or higher among dormant patents determined in the second step 104. Perform 108.

Here, a dormant patent that is recognized for technical usefulness above a certain level means a patent that has been filtered to a patent having a value that is capable of licensing or technology transfer, and for this purpose, the patent management server uses a menu item such as "Patent for Licensing / Technology Transfer". Advanced packaged by adding information containing market information, including information on market size of protected products to be described below, information on identifying competitors, and the like, for the dormant patents which are technically useful to information searchers. Provide as information.

In addition, the patent information provided as a menu item such as "Licensing / Technology Transferable Patent" may be registered as a patent for licensing or technology transfer from a right holder having a certain level of technical usefulness as described above. Include the requested patent.

The patent which is requested to be registered as the licensing / technology transfer target patent is provided to the information searcher by upgrading the packaging information to which the market information is added regardless of the technical usefulness.

Clustering is the concept of classifying several groups of information based on the concept of similarity. Of course, at the patent application stage or the patent registration stage, the patent office classifies the patent information by IPC classification, which is an international standard classification system, and currently provides a search method by the IPC classification system through a site such as KIPRIS. . However, the above IPC classification system is classified into sections, subsections, classes, groups, etc., based on the detailed technical field of the technology. That is, as in the embodiment of the present invention, when the purpose of retrieving a dormant patent is for licensing or technology transfer, the purpose of the present invention is effectively achieved by performing clustering of patent information after classification into only the detailed technical field. Can not be achieved.

Therefore, in the embodiment of the present invention, in addition to a method of positioning a similar technology by detailed technology such as similar technology, element technology, or surrounding technology classification of a dormant patent, the "industrial field" or "effect of the invention" applied to each patent technology is applied. It provides a method of classifying, arranging, and analyzing technologies with similar applications.

Performing clustering after sorting by "industrial sector" refers to providing information for searching a patent technology by an industrial sector to which the patent technology is applied. For example, classifying a patented technology by conventional IPC classification is performed by classifying into 8 sub-classes and 20 sub-sections and their corresponding classes as sub-categories of sub-classifications. , B: treatment operation, transportation C: chemistry, metallurgy, D: fiber, feeder, E: fixed structure, F: mechanical engineering, G: physics, H: electricity, for example the invention relates to the same "cellphone" Even if the invention is related to the mechanism of the mobile phone and the case of the invention related to the program embedded in the mobile phone, the classification conditions are different and are stored under different classification conditions.

In addition, when searching for information by the general search formula provided by the KIPRIS site, when entering a general search term "cell phone" and performing a search command, it is possible to display a list of all patent technologies with the name "cell phone". It is difficult to search the general patent trends for the "mobile phone" industry by the method based on the general classification condition search method or the general search method.

Therefore, the present invention performs a clustering operation for sorting by a specific industrial field to which the patent technology is applied and by subfields.

In addition to the clustering operation for each patent technology field, the clustering operation may be performed by classifying and sorting by the "invention effect" of the patent technology.

Performing the classification work by the "invention effect" means that similar things are sorted by the invention effect of each patent technology based on the technical content information of the dormant patent analyzed in the third step. In the information retrieval for the purpose of licensing or technology transfer of dormant patents as in the embodiment of the present invention, the main concern of the information searcher is to solve the technical problem at hand, for example, to search for information to increase the resolution of the mobile phone. It is conventional for a person who obtains the desired information by inputting a search term "industry" as the "industrial sector" corresponding item to "cell phone" and entering a search term "research" for the corresponding item as "resolution". It can be a convenient search method for information searchers, rather than using a classification method according to the technical field as in the IPC classification method of the IPC, and is particularly suitable for searcher-oriented information search for facilitating transactions of dormant patents.

To this end, the fourth step of clustering the analyzed information by similar classification conditions includes clustering technologies having similar fields of application based on the contents of the "effect" or "purpose" of the invention applied to each patent technology.

However, performing the clustering operation and the subsequent steps in the fourth step 108 only for the dormant patents in which the technical usefulness of the predetermined condition is recognized in the third step 106 may result in information overload of the dormant patent management server. In order to provide the most efficient dormant patent information in consideration of memory capacity, it is not necessarily limited thereto.

In a fifth step 110 of packaging additional information including analysis information, market information, and economic feasibility information of a company corresponding to the dormant patent into information about the dormant patent, the dormant patent management server stores a database in the server. Information inputted from an administrator through a computer controlling the server or extracting the information on the web by repeating the operation path performed in the first step if the information is retrieved and the information is not present in the database. Performs the operation of packaging.

Here, the additional information is information to assist the information queryer to facilitate the technical value evaluation and the business feasibility evaluation of the dormant patent when the server accesses the server and inquires information on the dormant patent.

For example, the company analysis information includes a company name, a corporation classification, a representative name, a homepage, sales, a credit rating, news related to the company, and trend information of the company having a dormant patent.

In addition, the market information may be information including 1. market size analysis by product use, 2. market size analysis by region, 3. market size analysis by distribution channel, 4. consumer purchasing ability analysis, and 5. stability items in Chapter 5.

And economic feasibility information includes: 1. economic and income variables of a specific region / country; 2. population information; 3. social and cultural level information; 4. geographic and climate information; and 5. industrial environment information. can do.

A detailed embodiment in which the above information is used will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 2.

Providing additional information including the analysis information, market information, economic feasibility information of the company as packaging information is only an embodiment of the present invention, and the administrator can change various conditions by changing the environmental conditions of the dormant patent management server. May be provided as the packaging information.

The sixth step 112 of registering the packaged information about the dormant patent as search information includes not only the information on the registered right including the holder of the dormant patent, a registration number, and a term of existence, but also the owner of the dormant patent. Search information includes information necessary for analyzing a company, usefulness information of a patent analyzed from information including a CII / SL index, information for determining the technical value of the dormant patent, and information necessary for determining the economic validity of the dormant patent. This step is to register.

2 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration of a dormant patent management server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the dormant patent management server 200 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention includes an analysis module 202, an information collection module 204, a clustering module 206, a packaging module 208, and a database. The unit 210, a user authentication module 220, and a control module 222 may be included.

The analysis module 202 refers to the database unit 210 under the control of the control module 222, and the duration of the current time of the registered dormant patent, whether or not it is a useful technology, analysis of the patent information for clustering and packaging, business feasibility It performs the function of analyzing. Whether or not the technology is useful, information including indexes and indicators using patents, such as citation using the Current Impact Index (CII) and Science Linkage (SL) Index described in FIG. Judgment is made with reference to index information, which may be objective data in determining the technical usefulness of a patent, and the information including the CII / SL index here uses data extracted by the control module 222 by driving a data extraction program.

The analysis module 202 may be configured to allow the information searcher to output a detailed evaluation result in a grade A or B grade so as to more easily determine the technical value of the dormant patent.

In addition, the dormant patents analyzed by the analysis module 202 with a useful class or more are registered as dormant patent information for retrieval after the clustering and packaging operations are performed by the clustering module 206 and the packaging module 208, respectively. .

Analysis of patent information for clustering and packaging refers to analyzing applied "industrial sectors" or "effects of the invention" for classification of patent technologies, as described in FIG. 1, and corresponding to the patent technologies for the packaging operation. Refers to extracting only information from the database unit.

The business feasibility analysis serves to extract only useful information by analyzing the information stored in the database so that the patent rights managed by the dormant patent management server 200 can determine whether there is a business feasibility with respect to the product which is the protection object. do.

For example, the information for determining the feasibility may include 1. market size analysis by product use, 2. market size analysis by region, 3. market size analysis by distribution channel, 4. consumer purchasing ability analysis, and 5. stability information in Chapter 5. It can be configured as.

The text mining process can be used for this analysis, and information extraction using natural language processing can be applied.

The information extraction herein refers to a task of accurately extracting a specific fact or relationship from the information collected through the information collection module, and each of the information items facilitates the determination of the business feasibility of the patent right by an information viewer accessing the server. As it is the most efficient information item to assist you, you can make a business judgment without performing a separate search. Such information items can be configured under various conditions by the server control computer managing the server.

1. Market size analysis by product use in the present invention refers to reviewing the market size by segmenting the product by use.

2. Market size analysis by region refers to reviewing domestic demand and price surveys by product or demand and price survey analysis by product and company market.

3. Market size analysis by distribution channel refers to checking the distribution channel of products or examining the market demand and price survey results by distribution channel.

4. Consumers' purchasing capability analysis refers to reviewing the income and value of each consumer segment in the case of consumer goods, and examining the scale of facility investment and technology innovation by industry.

5. The stability analysis of the market includes the possibility of the occurrence of substitutes in new materials, performances, designs, etc., the possibility of the occurrence of substitutes not only in the same industry but also in other industries, the likelihood of replacements from foreign countries, the possibility of changing the demand structure accompanying environmental changes, and the product life It can be configured as a detailed item to check the positioning on the cycle.

In particular, 2. Regional market size analysis may examine the following subsections for a specific region / country to provide effective information in the case where the operator has a business plan targeted to a specific region or a specific country. You can configure the menu as it exists.

1. Economic and income variables of a particular region / country, 2. Population-related information, 3. Social-cultural level information, 4. Geographic and climate-related information, 5. Industrial environment information.

1. Economic and income variables for a given region / country are indicators of economic growth rate, income level, investment, savings, consumption, unemployment rate, and inflation rate for that region / country.

2. Population-related information can identify the total population, population growth rate, population density, population gender and age distribution, population movement, ethnic composition, religious, linguistic and ethnic homogeneity of the population, life expectancy, number of families per household, and average age of marriage. That's the information.

3. Information on social and cultural levels can be used to check the level of education, average working hours, leisure time, health benefits, telecommunications penetration rate, car retention rate and housing penetration rate in the region / country.

4. Geographic and climate related information can identify environmental pollution information such as location, topography, weather (including temperature, humidity, and rainfall), water quality, quantity, existing resources, scarce resources, area, and pollution of the region / country. .

5. The information on the industrial environment can be used to identify the industrial structure, market structure, distribution structure, correlation, technology level, R & D level, and competitor's strategy.

The information collection module 204 collects information about patent rights registered in a dormant patent management server and stores the information on a patent right.

The information collection module 204 may use a web robot agent for collecting information that traverses online information and collects information.

A web robot is a program that resides on a server and circulates and collects information corresponding to the patent rights distributed on the Internet on behalf of an administrator without direct interaction with the administrator.

Such a web robot agent connects to a server and performs a function similar to a web browser in terms of only a functional aspect of fetching various types of files as well as files written in a markup language. However, the web browser displays the imported data on the screen, and when the user clicks the link, it moves to the home page and connects to it, but the web robot agent analyzes the file instead of displaying it through the browser and displays the URL part in the document. After extracting the data, access to another URL and collect necessary data.

The operation process of a general web robot for data collection is as follows.

1) Collect system information and set necessary for operation of web robot through various setting items inputted by user.

2) Run the robot agent program. Basically, the URL to be accessed initially uses data input from the administrator's computer controlling the server.

3) Extract the host name of the URL (for example, 'http://www.www-kr.org/~userid' if the URL is 'www.www-kr.org' among them) and extract 'http: // host'. Access URL of name / robots.txt '.

4) Receive contents of robots.txt file.

5) Analyze the contents of the robots.txt file to find out the URLs that should not be accessed by the host.

6) If the given URL does not say that it should not access robots.txt, then access it again.

7) Receive the contents of the URL in the same way as 4).

8) Extract the URL by analyzing the file received in step 7). At this time, it is divided into relative URL and absolute URL, and all URLs are converted into absolute URLs. In other words, change the relative URL (/dir/index.html) to an absolute URL (http: //hostname/dir/index.html).

9) The extracted URL is saved in the URL database for future reference. Also, when storing in a URL database, some URLs are guessed and stored together. For example, if 'http: //host/dir/subdir/file.html' is a URL to store, not only the URL but also 'http: // host / dir / subdir /', 'http: // host / dir /', It can be assumed that 'http: // host /' also has the necessary information.

10) Finally, when saving the extracted URL in the URL database, check whether it is already registered or not so that there is no duplication.

11) Analyze the file received in step 7) to extract the keywords and store the necessary information.

12) Repeat the analysis and extraction process with the URL to visit next in the URL database.

The clustering module 206 performs a function of grouping and classifying data having similar characteristics by using the technical content of the patent as a source for a patent determined as a useful patent of a certain level or more through the analysis module 202. Such clustering may be performed by driving a general information classification program including a data mining program under the control of the control module 222, and performing a clustering operation by similar technology, similar industry, or similar purpose / effect. The classified dormant patent information is stored in the database 210 after being grouped by the packaging module 208 into information combined with additional information.

The database unit 210 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention may include a user information database 212, a dormant patent database 214, a business feasibility prediction database 216 and a URL database 218 as a detailed component. The control of the control module 222 provides the information inquirer with information for determining the technical content and registration information, technical value, business feasibility, and the like of the dormant patent. The detailed structure is demonstrated in detail below.

The user information database 212 stores customer information associated with a member using a dormant patent management server according to an embodiment of the present invention. Here, the customer information may include personal information such as the member's name, member ID, password, social security number, address, telephone number, e-mail address, as well as credit information such as the member's bank account number and credit card number. Can be.

The user information database 212 generates new customer information when the user who is going to access the server under the control of the control module 222 is a new member, and updates the customer information when the user changes the customer information. Will have customer information.

The dormant patent database 214 stores information collected from the information collection module 204 and information about the dormant patents analyzed from the analysis module 202.

In addition, the dormant patent database 214 may store various useful additional information and packed information necessary for using the dormant patent technology such as analysis information of the company that owns the dormant patent, market information about the dormant patent, and economic feasibility information. Save as packaging information. Here, the company's analysis information includes a company name, a corporation classification, a representative name, a homepage, sales, a credit rating, news related to the company, and trend information of the company owning the dormant patent.

The business feasibility prediction database 216 provides a business feasibility prediction including the market size, market stability, technological development stage, competitive technology presence, and competitive patent status of competitors protected by dormant patents analyzed by the analysis module 202. Store the necessary information.

The URL database 218 stores URL information on which the Web Robot Agent, which is one of the information collecting means of the information collecting module, has analyzed and extracted.

The user authentication module 220 performs the authentication procedure of the information query user connected to the server under the control of the control module 222, the control module 222 is the analysis module 202, information collection module 204, clustering module 206, the packaging module 208, and the user authentication module 220 to control the dormant patent management server 200 to collect information, determine whether the patent is useful, clustering procedures by similar application or similar patents, and the above. It controls to perform a procedure of packaging a dormant patent with various additional information.

3 is a diagram for explaining a method of analyzing a business of a dormant patent by accessing a dormant patent management server according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Most intellectual property rights tend to be owned by large corporations. On the contrary, most of the consumers who want to receive new innovative technologies in accordance with rapidly changing technology trends are SMEs.

The present invention has been configured to provide the technical usefulness, business feasibility and economic feasibility review of the dormant patent, which had to be separately investigated for the prior dormant patent transfer, as information packaged in one service screen. However, the term dormant patent encompasses intellectual property rights including patent rights, utility model rights, design rights, trademark rights, and copyrights, and does not necessarily refer to patent rights not commercially available.

As shown in FIG. 3, the dormant patent management server is packaged with detailed / objective information on preliminary evaluation 302, commercial feasibility evaluation 304, and market prospect 306 evaluation items essential for the business analysis of the dormant patent. Since information is built and managed as a database, information searchers can easily predict the business feasibility of dormant patents without investing a separate search operation and time.

The preliminary evaluation (302), commercial feasibility evaluation (304), and market prospect (306) evaluation items for the feasibility analysis were searched by the information searcher inputting the search condition by technology classification, the search condition by industry sector, or the search condition by invention purpose / effect. Menu items provided as additional information about the patent technology.

For example, the detailed information on the preliminary evaluation 302 may provide information on the product capability, demand, and technology development stage of the patented technology. The qualitative content of the technology may be provided as detailed information on the commercial feasibility 304. It can provide information on legal regulations, the presence of competitive technology, the status of competitive corporate patents, and the superiority of technology.

In addition, the information on the market prospect 306 may provide information on the target market, market size, and competitor identification of the technology product, and the above information is already collected and analyzed by the patent management server about the target patent. After clustering, additional information is packed and advanced information to be managed by a database. The information is packaged while being updated by a repetitive task such as collecting / analyzing by the patent management server.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of managing a dormant patent according to an embodiment of the present invention.

A dormant patent management server according to an embodiment of the present invention collects dormant patents owned by a company and builds and manages it as a DB (S402).

At this time, the dormant patent management server performs a procedure of collecting information on the dormant patent designated as the management target, wherein the information includes information including a CII / SL index required to determine the technical usefulness of the dormant patent, and the business potential of the dormant patent. It includes various additional information and the like for determining (S404).

The patent management server screens the dormant patent (S406) and determines whether it is a useful patent based on objective data including information including the CII / SL index and the duration of rights (S408).

The patent management server analyzes the technical, industrial and market trends, business feasibility, economic feasibility, etc. of dormant patents selected as useful patents in step S408.

Subsequently, the patent management server clusters by similar products, similar technologies, element technologies, or similar industries and similar purposes / effects for the commercialization of the dormant patent or the transfer of technology (S410). The information is packaged (S412) and registered as advanced information for searching (S414).

The above description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may make various modifications and changes without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are not intended to limit the technical idea of the present invention but to describe the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The protection scope of the present invention should be interpreted by the following claims, and all technical ideas within the equivalent scope should be interpreted as being included in the scope of the present invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, whether or not a dormant patent is a useful patent is selected and collected and analyzed information for evaluating the technical value of the selected patent, and information for evaluating the feasibility of the dormant patent. By providing additional information, it is possible to prevent the dormant patent rights, which are not commercially available despite being useful technology, from being lost due to system waste.

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delete A server for managing dormant patents online, An information collection module for collecting information corresponding to the dormant patent; An analysis module for analyzing information including the technical content, usefulness, duration, technicality and business of the dormant patent; A clustering module for classifying the dormant patent according to a specific classification condition using the technical content of the dormant patent as a source; A packaging module for organizing and grouping information corresponding to the dormant patent according to a specific condition; A database unit including information corresponding to the technical contents of the dormant patent, information analyzed through the information collection module and analysis module of the dormant patent, and information classified and packaged through the clustering module and the packaging module; And And a control module for controlling the information collection module, the analysis module, the clustering module, and the packaging module to smoothly manage the dormant patent management, sorting, clustering, and packaging functions. The analysis module is: The current impact index (CII) index indicating the degree to which the technical content of the dormant patent is cited in other intellectual property rights, and the degree to which the technical content of the dormant patent cited expertise including scientific articles and research publications. Including indexed Science Linkage (SL) indices Analyzing the usefulness of the dormant patent based on the information using the index, the index using the patent, Analyzing the usefulness of the dormant patent based on the information including the index using the patent, information using the index, as well as other index information that may be objective data in determining the technical usefulness of the dormant patent, Analyze the business nature of the dormant patent based on information including the market size of the dormant patent protected article stored in the database unit, market stability, technology development stage, presence or absence of competition technology, and the state of patent right of a competitor. Analyzing at least one information of an industrial field to which the dormant patent is applied, an object of the invention, or an effect of the invention, The clustering module is: And classifying the dormant patent according to the specific classification condition of the dormant patent according to the industrial field or the invention purpose of the dormant patent. delete delete delete delete delete In the method of managing dormant patents online, (a) collecting information of the dormant patents; (b) determining the usefulness of the dormant patent; (c) analyzing the classification and business feasibility of the dormant patent based on the collected information; (d) classifying and clustering the analyzed information according to a predetermined specific condition; (e) packaging additional information including the information analyzed in the step (c) for the classified and clustered dormant patents and storing them in a database; And (f) registering as information for retrieving the dormant patent; After step (b), (b1) classifying the usefulness of the determined dormant patents into specific grades according to predetermined conditions; And (b2) determining whether the usefulness of the dormant patent is a usefulness of a predetermined predetermined level or more; In the step (c), the procedure is performed only for the dormant patent in which the usefulness of the specific grade or higher is recognized in the step (b2), After the step (b2), (b3) determining whether the dormant patent is a patent that has been requested to be registered as a licensing / technology transfer target patent by a right holder who owns the dormant patent; Step (c) is performed only when the availability of the specific level or higher is recognized in step (b2) or when the registration request is received in step (b3), In the step (b), the usefulness is a current impact index (CII) index indicating the degree to which the technical content of the dormant patent is cited in other intellectual property rights and the technical content of the dormant patent. Calculate based on information using patents and indices, including the Science Linkage (SL) index, which indexes the degree of citation of expertise, including publications, The usefulness is calculated based on the information including the index using the patent, information using an index, as well as other index information that may be objective data in determining the technical usefulness of the dormant patent, wherein the information is the dormant patent management server. Information extracted by a built-in information extraction program or information input from a separate computer controlling the server, In the step (c), the business activity is calculated on the basis of information including the market size of the goods related to the dormant patent, market stability, technology development stage, the presence of competition technology, patent status of competitors, but the usefulness The current impact index (CII), the science linkage (SL), the market size of the products related to the dormant patent, the stability of the market, the technology development step, The information including the presence or absence of the competitive technology and the patent rights of the competitor is information extracted by an information extraction program embedded in the dormant patent management server or information input from a separate computer controlling the server. To manage dormant patents online. delete delete delete delete

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