Title :
A heuristic procedure to identify most valuable chain of patents in a given technology
Author :
Su, Fang-Pei ; Lai, Kuei-Kuei ; Yang, Wen-Goang ; Sharma, R.R.K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Manage. Inf. Syst., Yung-Ta Inst. of Technol. & Commerce, Pington, Taiwan
Abstract :
We argue that patents under litigation have maximum value. We develop a heuristic procedure to determine how patents (associated with a given technology) under litigation form a network of patent family members and priority patents involved. Later we develop a simple algorithm to identify ldquocriticalrdquo and ldquosignificantrdquo chain in the above network. We argue that these ldquocriticalrdquo and ldquosignificantrdquo chains (in the above network so created) offer companies valuable information in deciding their patent portfolio strategies.
Keywords :
citation analysis; patents; critical chain identification; heuristic procedure; patent citation network; significant chain identification; Citation analysis; Engineering management; Financial management; Information analysis; Management information systems; Marketing management; Performance analysis; Personal communication networks; Portfolios; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
Management of Engineering & Technology, 2009. PICMET 2009. Portland International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Portland, OR
Print_ISBN :
978-1-890843-20-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-890843-20-5
DOI :
10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261933
