• Journal of Oriental Neuropsychiatry
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.287-299
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• 2022

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to analyze the trend of natural product-based products for sleep improvement in Korean patents, to enhance the development and application of natural-products for sleep disorder in terms of Korean medicine. Methods: We collected patent data using the KIPRIS database and ScienceON database. Two authors independently screened patents that potentially met the criteria, and assessed full texts of screened patents for eligibility. Included patents were analyzed, quantitatively as well as qualitatively. Results: A total of 60 patents were selected 2008-July 2022. The number of patents have been on the rise since 2017, and reached 12 in 2018. Companies have registered the most patents, followed by the Industry-University Cooperation Foundation. Zizyphi semen (n=6), Lactuca sativa L. (n=5), Valeriana fauriei/officinalis (n=4), Poria cocos (n=4) were frequently used herbs among 60 patents. Twenty-one patents (35%) included medicinal herbs with sleep improving effects. Among 60 patents, alcohol extraction (70%) was mostly used, followed by water immersion (50%), and hot water extraction (48.3%). Conclusions: Analysis results showed that various Korean medicine herbs, are being used for natural-products for sleep disorder. The results will be helpful towards inventing new patents using Korean medicine, developing natural product extracts for sleep improvement, and extending the range of these products in clinical use.

• The Journal of Korean Medicine
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.27-35
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• 2022

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze Korean domestic patents on aconiti ciliare radix and to identify the trend of aconitum tuber technology. Methods: To analyze the patent, a combinations of words such as "aconitum" or "korean aconite root" were used in search engine Kipris(www.kirpis.or.kr). The patents of aconiti ciliare radix were analyzed in three ways: year trend analysis, internatonal patent classification (IPC) code analysis related to content classification, and patent registration status analysis. Results: Among the patents found in the search results, 17 patents with significant contents were analyzed. Results showed that, first, patents were steadily registered until 2018, but recently there has been no new patent registration. Second, there were many patents related to efficacy verification and decoction method, and the number of IPC codes related to them was also high. Third, there are five patents maintaining the registration status, and they are patents related to the aconiti ciliare radix extraction method, toxicity removal, and combination method. Conclusions: In this study, the domestic patents of aconiti ciliare radix were analyzed. The analysis results of this study are expected to be exploited as basic data for the development of Korean medicine analgesics with fewer side effects by suppressing tuber toxicity and the creation of new medical technologies.

• Proceedings of the Plant Resources Society of Korea Conference
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• 2023.04a
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• pp.60-60
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• 2023

특허제도는 발명자에게 발명의 공개에 대한 대가로 일정기간 독점권을 인정하여 기술개발에 투자한 자금을 회수할 수 있는 기회를 제공하고 공개된 발명은 새로운 기술개발을 위하여 누구나 이용할 수 있도록 하여 기술발전을 촉진할 뿐만아니라 이미 개발된 발명에 대한 중복투자, 연구를 하는 낭비를 방지하기 위한 목적을 가진다. 본 조사는 2022년 12월 31일까지의 정부 특허정보넷인 키프리스(www.kipris.or.kr)에서 꽃차 관련 실용신안 특허 내용을 검색하여 정리하였으며 그 결과는 다음과 같았다. 1. 1983년 엘다베리꽃차 제조방법에 대한 것을 시작으로 최근 2022년 12월 31일까지 총 30개가 출원되어 2022년에는 증가된 것이 없었다. 2. 출원된 실용신안 특허 총 30개 중에서 소멸 2개(엘다베리/1983, 연꽃/2009), 취하 3개(무궁화/1992, 백화차/2005, 꽃차/2014), 거절 6개(매화/2001, 장미녹차/2007, 혼합꽃녹차/2007, 동결꽃차/2008, 소금꽃차/2015, 꽃차누룽지/2017), 공개 6개(꽃차/2014, 소금꽃차/2015, 꽃차추출물/2017, 기능성꽃차 /2018, 꽃차추출물/2018, 금잔화꽃차/2019), 포기 2개(개복숭아 꽃차/2015, 동백꽃차/2017), 등록(녹차꽃차/2006, 사과꽃차/2008, 목련꽃차/2012. 목련꽃차/2014, 칡꽃차/2015, 장미꽃차/2017, 모란꽃차/2017, 꽃차제조방법/2018, 꽃차로스팅장치/2018, 꽃음료/2020, 향 강화 꽃차/2021)은 11개였다. 3. 출원된 실용신안 특허 총 29개 중에서 개인이 출원한 것이 19개, 회사(아모레퍼시픽, 휴먼코스메틱, 화이통협동조합, (주)꽃다비, 주식회사 플러드, (주)우리꽃연구소)나 기관(한국식품연구원, 고창군), 대학(전남대, 동의대 2개)이 출원한 것이 11개였다.

• Proceedings of the Plant Resources Society of Korea Conference
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• 2021.04a
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• pp.61-61
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• 2021

특허제도는 발명자에게 발명의 공개에 대한 대가로 일정기간 독점권을 인정하여 기술개발에 투자한 자금을 회수할 수 있는 기회를 제공하고 공개된 발명은 새로운 기술개발을 위하여 누구나 이용할 수 있도록 하여 기술발전을 촉진할 뿐만아니라 이미 개발된 발명에 대한 중복투자, 연구를 하는 낭비를 방지하기 위한 목적을 가진다. 본 조사는 2020년 12월 31일까지의 정부 특허정보넷인 키프리스(www.kipris.or.kr)에서 꽃차 관련 실용신안 특허 내용을 검색하여 정리하였으며 그 결과는 다음과 같았다. 1. 1983년 엘다베리꽃차 제조방법에 대한 것을 시작으로 최근 2020년 12월 31일까지 총 29개가 출원되었다. 2. 출원된 실용신안 특허 총 29개 중에서 소멸 2개(엘다베리/1983, 연꽃/2009), 취하 3개(무궁화/1992, 백화차/2005, 꽃차/2014), 거절 6개(매화/2001, 장미녹차/2007, 혼합꽃녹차/2007, 동결꽃차/2008, 소금꽃차/2015, 꽃차누룽지/2017), 공개 6개(꽃차/2014, 소금꽃차/2015, 꽃차추출물/2017, 기능성꽃차/2018, 꽃차추출물/2018, 금잔화꽃차/2019), 포기 2개(개복숭아 꽃차/2015, 동백꽃차/2017), 등록(녹차꽃차/2006, 사과꽃차/2008, 목련꽃차/2012. 목련꽃차/2014, 칡꽃차/2015, 장미꽃차/2017, 모란꽃차/2017, 꽃차제조방법/2018, 꽃차로스팅장치/2018, 꽃음료/2020)은 10개였다. 3. 출원된 실용신안 특허 총 29개 중에서 개인이 출원한 것이 19개, 회사(아모레퍼시픽, 휴먼코스메틱, 화이통협동조합, (주)꽃다비, 주식회사 플러드)나 기관(한국식품연구원, 고창군), 대학(전남대학교, 동의대학교 2개)이 출원한 것이 10개였다.

• Proceedings of the Plant Resources Society of Korea Conference
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• 2020.08a
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• pp.106-106
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• 2020

특허제도는 발명자에게 발명의 공개에 대한 대가로 일정기간 독점권을 인정하여 기술개발에 투자한 자금을 회수할 수 있는 기회를 제공하고 공개된 발명은 새로운 기술개발을 위하여 누구나 이용할 수 있도록 하여 기술발전을 촉진할 뿐만아니라 이미 개발된 발명에 대한 중복투자, 연구를 하는 낭비를 방지하기 위한 목적을 가진다. 본 조사는 2019년 12월 31일에 정부의 특허정보넷인 키프리스(www.kipris.or.kr)에서 꽃차 관련 실용 신안 특허 내용을 검색하여 정리한 결과는 다음과 같았다. 1. 1983년 엘다베리꽃차 제조방법에 대한 것을 시작으로 최근 2019년 12월 31일까지 총 28개가 출원되었다. 2. 출원된 실용신안 특허 총 28개 중에서 소멸 2개(엘다베리/1983, 연꽃/2009), 취하 3개(무궁화/1992, 백화차/2005, 꽃차/2014), 거절 6개(매화/2001, 장미녹차/2007, 혼합꽃녹차/2007, 동결꽃차/2008, 소금꽃차/2015, 꽃차누룽지/2017), 공개 6개(꽃차/2014, 소금꽃차/2015, 꽃차추출물/2017, 기능성꽃차/2018, 꽃차추출물/2018, 금잔화꽃차/2019), 포기 2개(개복숭아 꽃차/2015, 동백꽃차/2017), 등록(녹차꽃차/2006, 사과꽃차/2008, 목련꽃차/2012. 목련꽃차/2014, 칡꽃차/2015, 장미꽃차/2017, 모란꽃차/2017, 꽃차제조방법/2018, 꽃차로스팅장치/2018)은 9개였다. 3. 출원된 실용신안 특허 총 28개 중에서 개인이 출원한 것이 19개, 회사(아모레퍼시픽, 휴먼코스메틱, 화이통협동조합, (주)꽃다비)나 기관(한국식품연구원, 고창군), 대학(전남대학교, 동의대학교 2개)이 출원한 것이 9개였다.

• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.9-21
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• 2024

Background: The purpose of this study was to utilize text network analysis and topic modeling to identify interconnected relationships among keywords present in patent information related to oral health, and subsequently extract latent topics and visualize them. By examining key keywords and specific subjects, this study sought to comprehend the technological trends in oral health-related innovations. Furthermore, it aims to serve as foundational material, suggesting directions for technological advancement in dentistry and dental hygiene. Methods: The data utilized in this study consisted of information registered over a 20-year period until July 31st, 2023, obtained from the patent information retrieval service, KIPRIS. A total of 6,865 patent titles related to keywords, such as "dentistry," "teeth," and "oral health," were collected through the searches. The research tools included a custom-designed program coded specifically for the research objectives based on Python 3.10. This program was used for keyword frequency analysis, semantic network analysis, and implementation of Latent Dirichlet Allocation for topic modeling. Results: Upon analyzing the centrality of connections among the top 50 frequently occurring words, "method," "tooth," and "manufacturing" displayed the highest centrality, while "active ingredient" had the lowest. Regarding topic modeling outcomes, the "implant" topic constituted the largest share at 22.0%, while topics concerning "devices and materials for oral health" and "toothbrushes and oral care" exhibited the lowest proportions at 5.5% each. Conclusion: Technologies concerning methods and implants are continually being researched in patents related to oral health, while there is comparatively less technological development in devices and materials for oral health. This study is expected to be a valuable resource for uncovering potential themes from a large volume of patent titles and suggesting research directions.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.53-77
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• 2015

Korea has witnessed an increasing number of domestic patent applications, but a majority of them are not utilized to their maximum potential but end up becoming obsolete. According to the 2012 National Congress' Inspection of Administration, about 73% of patents possessed by universities and public-funded research institutions failed to lead to creating social values, but remain latent. One of the main problem of this issue is that patent creators such as individual researcher, university, or research institution lack abilities to commercialize their patents into viable businesses with those enterprises that are in need of them. Also, for enterprises side, it is hard to find the appropriate patents by searching keywords on all such occasions. This system proposes a patent recommendation system that can identify and recommend intellectual rights appropriate to users' interested fields among a rapidly accumulating number of patent assets in a more easy and efficient manner. The proposed system extracts core contents and technology sectors from the existing pool of patents, and combines it with secondary social knowledge, which derives from tags information created by users, in order to find the best patents recommended for users. That is to say, in an early stage where there is no accumulated tag information, the recommendation is done by utilizing content characteristics, which are identified through an analysis of key words contained in such parameters as 'Title of Invention' and 'Claim' among the various patent attributes. In order to do this, the suggested system extracts only nouns from patents and assigns a weight to each noun according to the importance of it in all patents by performing TF-IDF analysis. After that, it finds patents which have similar weights with preferred patents by a user. In this paper, this similarity is called a "Domain Similarity". Next, the suggested system extract technology sector's characteristics from patent document by analyzing the international technology classification code (International Patent Classification, IPC). Every patents have more than one IPC, and each user can attach more than one tag to the patents they like. Thus, each user has a set of IPC codes included in tagged patents. The suggested system manages this IPC set to analyze technology preference of each user and find the well-fitted patents for them. In order to do this, the suggeted system calcuates a 'Technology_Similarity' between a set of IPC codes and IPC codes contained in all other patents. After that, when the tag information of multiple users are accumulated, the system expands the recommendations in consideration of other users' social tag information relating to the patent that is tagged by a concerned user. The similarity between tag information of perferred 'patents by user and other patents are called a 'Social Simialrity' in this paper. Lastly, a 'Total Similarity' are calculated by adding these three differenent similarites and patents having the highest 'Total Similarity' are recommended to each user. The suggested system are applied to a total of 1,638 korean patents obtained from the Korea Industrial Property Rights Information Service (KIPRIS) run by the Korea Intellectual Property Office. However, since this original dataset does not include tag information, we create virtual tag information and utilized this to construct the semi-virtual dataset. The proposed recommendation algorithm was implemented with JAVA, a computer programming language, and a prototype graphic user interface was also designed for this study. As the proposed system did not have dependent variables and uses virtual data, it is impossible to verify the recommendation system with a statistical method. Therefore, the study uses a scenario test method to verify the operational feasibility and recommendation effectiveness of the system. The results of this study are expected to improve the possibility of matching promising patents with the best suitable businesses. It is assumed that users' experiential knowledge can be accumulated, managed, and utilized in the As-Is patent system, which currently only manages standardized patent information.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.101-107
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• 2018

Recently, Korea's defense industry has advanced highly, and defense R&D budget is gradually increasing in defense budget. However, without objective analysis of defense industry technology, effective defense R&D activities are limited and defense budgets can be used inefficiently. Therefore, in addition to analyzing the defense industry technology quantitatively reflecting the opinions of the experts, this paper aims to analyze the defense industry technology objectively by quantitative methods, and to make efficient use of the defense budget. In addition, we propose a patent analysis method to grasp the characteristics of the defense industry technology and the vacant technology objectively and systematically by applying the big data analysis method, which is one of the keywords of the 4th industrial revolution, to the defense industry technology. The proposed method is applied to the technology of the firepower industry among several defense industrial technologies and the case analysis is conducted. In the process, the patents of 10 domestic companies related to firepower were collected through the Kipris in the defense industry companies' classification of the Korea Defense Industry Association(KDIA), and the data matrix was preprocessed to utilize IPC codes among them. And then, we Implemented association rule mining which can grasp the relation between each item in data mining technique using R program. The results of this study are suggested through interpretation of support, confidence lift index which were resulted from suggested approach. Therefore, this paper suggests that it can help the efficient use of massive national defense budget and enhance the competitiveness of defense industry technology.

• Asian Journal of Turfgrass Science
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.107-118
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• 2006

This study was carried out to introduce a couple of commercialized patented technologies in the area of turfgrass production. All sod production related patents in Korea during the period from Dec. 20, 1948 to Dec. 30, 2005 were reviewed. Details of two patents (patent No. 0434389 and 0478194) were included. The results are summarized as follows: 1. One of the domestic patents on sod production was the technique using natural and plastic films. Information on topsoil mixtures was also reviewed form foreign patents. 2. Patented multi-purpose sowing equipment can evenly mix soil, sand, fertilizer and other soil conditioners with seed, stolen and rhizome of turfgrass. 3. Patent on cool-season turfgrass sod production provide topsoil mixture combination and mixing ratio for sports field, landscape area and roof garden.

• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.308-316
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• 2012

Proper skin care promotes good metabolism and the biological activity of skin, helps maintain the skin in a healthy and beautiful state when combined with nutritional nourishment. Health functional foods are being used for the purpose of enhancing efficient skin care. Health functional foods related to skin care maintain the epidermis, dermal fibroblast layer and subcutaneous tissue that form the skin. Efficient functional foods alleviate the signs of endogenous aging that come with getting older and exogenous aging caused by sunlight. Even though the field of skin care related to health functional foods has received less attention and been the subject of less research compared to functional cosmetics which are developing widely, this area of skin care that maintains and improves the layer of dermal fibroblast through the intake of food, is expected to progress with the commercialization of products in many fields when the related technical research development is galvanized and the related patents are applied for. Research into health functional foods related to skin care in Korea started rather late in comparison to other advanced countries where patents for relevant techniques have been applied for since 1990's together with research conducted on how they might be used for practical purposes. This study used the key words 'skin care, health functional food' to search for Korean patents that have been applied for at the Korean Intellectual Property Office from 1983 to 2011 using the KIPRIS database, in order to help researchers in the related fields by organizing the patented formulas for health functional foods for skin care which have gained attention recently. According to the number of registrations in each industry field, the total number of patents was 1,120 we screened the major patents among them, the field with the largest number was food foodstuff non-alcoholic beverage and preparation or treatment(A23L) with 135, then natural plant medicine & medical supplies and cosmetics(A61K) with 112, microorganisms or enzymes(C12N) with 63, heterocyclic compounds(C07D) with 44, horticulture or cultivation of sea weeds, forestry(A01G) 16 times, listed from the highest to the lowest number of applications. It has been revealed that food, foodstuff, non-alcoholic beverage and preparation or treatment(A23L) was the industry field where the most patents for health functional foods related to skin care were registered.