A TRIZ-Based Protection and Promotion Process for Patents

The value of a patent or a patent portfolio is mainly determined by their technological strength, which can be used by researchers and inverters to find new solutions to technical problems. Theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) is a problem-solving tool based on a set of the patterns of technical system evolution revealed by decades of analysis of the world´s most inventive patent. In addition to simplifying and expediting problem solving, these same patterns of invention can be used to predict trends in technological systems, as well as to promote the quality of patents and patent portfolio. In a unique way, they can also be used to circumvent and bypass existing competitive patents. The patterns and lines of technology evolution that summarized from patent analysis of TRIZ are applied to identify evolutionary potential (EP) of a technical system and new ideas for patent strategy can be generated by the analysis of the evolutionary potential. Then the process of protection and promotion for patents using TRIZ is developed, a case study illustrate this process.