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

fYear

2009

fDate

2-6 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

1959

Lastpage

1965

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261933

Filename

5261933