• 대한예방한의학회지
• /
• 제20권2호
• /
• pp.77-86
• /
• 2016

Objectives : This study aims to investigate the current situation of domestic patents in Korea on natural products and to provide directions for developing and applying herbal medicinal products by in-depth analyses. Methods : Combinations of words, such as "A61K" or "A61P", "herb" or "Korean medicinal herb" or "Korean medicine" or "traditional" or "natural" or "$botanic^*$" or "China", and "medicine" or "treatment" or "prevention" or "improvement", were used to search patents in the World Intellectual Property Service (WIPS) database. Three methods were applied to analyze natural products patents. First, the number of patent registrations was sorted by year. Second, the assignees were analyzed by count and country of origin. Finally, cluster map analysis was conducted to explore frequently emerging words in natural products and the relationship amongst those words to treat corresponding diseases/technologies. Results : Results showed that, first, the total number of patents had been increasing. Among the patents, 76.4% were registered by domestic institutes/companies, and 23.6% by foreign institutes/companies. Second, USA, Japan, and China possess a considerable number of Korean patents and, therefore, domestic institutes/companies can seek joint technological development opportunities with their counterparts from those countries in the future. Finally, a total of four clusters were identified by cluster map analysis. Each of the clusters includes natural products related to diseases involving skin, aging, and blood sugar, as well as adult diseases. Conclusions : In this study, natural products patents registered in the Korean Intellectual Property Office were analyzed. The analyses results showed the kinds of natural products that had been employed for the treatment of certain diseases. However, natural products included in existing patents were minimal given that 4,174 species of indigenous plants are found in Korea. Thus, Korean institutes/companies should utilize unexplored plants to develop more value-added drugs.

• 한국한의학연구원논문집
• /
• 제16권1호
• /
• pp.93-99
• /
• 2010

When researchers plan R&D projects, they usually use patent map or paper map for the objective decision-making, but in traditional korean medicine field, domestic patents and papers have been mainly proposed as results of many R&D projects, while most of patent or paper map tools support international patents and SCI papers, respectively. Therefore, as an alternative one KIOM constructed the project map which can provide the technology landscape for R&D project information in traditional korean medicine field. But the functions of the system is limited to the search and analysis with chart. So sophisticated analysis results are hard to get from the existing system. This research's goal is to upgrade the web based project map analysis system to provide researcher rich functionality and advanced analysis tools.

• 한국물환경학회지
• /
• 제28권4호
• /
• pp.601-607
• /
• 2012

Advance countries are trying hard to acquire intellectual properties on the technologies for prior occupation in the future industry. Patent contains meaningful technical achievement. Patent map is required to propose the strategies for efficient development and use of these technologies. In this paper, analysis of foreign and domestic patents for groundwater pollution technologies analysis. It was analyzed by utilizing two processes of patent map and paper analysis. The patents in Korea, USA, Japan, China, and Europe were searched. It was found that the number of patent for groundwater pollution was USA patent 44.3%, Japan patent 17.1%, China 13.3%, EU 1.9% and Korea patent 23.3%, respectively.

• 신재생에너지
• /
• 제8권1호
• /
• pp.35-43
• /
• 2012

Patent analysis is the extracting knowledge which is needed for the company's research and development strategy through accumulated worldwide patent database. In order to set the future direction corresponding technology which is scheduled to be developed, the technology trends and deployment processes are identified by analyzing results of present patent applications. The patent analysis provides the required results for analyzing present patent applications. In this paper, technology classification for related patent analysis methods and system, and patent analysis for desalination technology using solar energy development was carried out as well. The patents in Korea, USA, Japan, China, and Europe were searched. The technology trend desalination technology using solar energy was analyzed based on patent application year, countries, main applications, and each technologies. The application status of desalination patents showed a tendency to increase slightly. It was found that the number of patent for applied desalination was USA patent 21.0%, Japan patent 27.0%, China 24.8%, EU 2.7% and Korea patent 24.5%, respectively.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
• /
• 제26권3호
• /
• pp.190-195
• /
• 2016

급변하는 글로벌 시장 환경에서 기술은 계속해서 급속히 발전하고 있다. 이러한 급변하고 있는 환경을 반영한 연구개발은 기업에 있어서 필수가 되었다. 즉, 기업의 경쟁력 향상을 위해서는 자사가 보유한 기술에 대한 체계적인 분석이 필요하다. 최근에는 객관적이며 정량화된 기술분류를 위하여 특허문서의 IPC 코드를 이용하여 기술분류를 수행하고 있다. 국제특허분류인 IPC 코드는 국제적으로 규격화된 기술분류 코드이기 때문에, 이를 활용하면 객관적이고 정량화된 기술분석 수행이 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 C사의(社) 특허에 대하여 전수조사를 실시하고, IPC 코드기반 분석 Matrix를 구축한 후 해당특허들을 신뢰도 기반의 연관규칙 마이닝을 실시하며 구조화된 연관맵을 생성한다. 연관맵을 이용하면 해당회사의 특허 현황 파악에 유용하게 활용된다. 또한, 구조화된 연관맵을 이용하면 상호 연관있는 기술에 대하여 군집화를 가능하게 하기 때문에, 본 논문에서 제시한 C사(社)의 기술을 파악할 수 있으며 이를 기반으로 기술 흐름과 향후 기술 전략 수립을 가능하게 한다.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
• /
• 제17권2호
• /
• pp.129-142
• /
• 2018

Recently, the number of patent applications have been increasing rapidly every year as the importance of protecting intellectual property rights becomes more important. Patents must be inventive and have novelty. Especially, the novelty implies that the corresponding invention is not the same as the previous invention. To confirm the novelty, prior art search must be conducted before and after the application. The target of prior art search should include not only Korean patents but also foreign patents. Search of foreign patents should be supported by multilingual search techniques. However, a dictionary-based naive approach shows a limitation because some technical concepts are represented in different terms according to each nation. For example, a Korean term and a Japanese term may not be synonym even though they represent the same technical concept. In this paper, we propose a new method to map semantic similarity between technical terms in Korean patents and Japanese patents. To investigate different representations in each nation for the same technical concept, we identified and analyzed pairs of patents those are mutually connected with priority claim relationship. By performing an experiment with real-world data, we showed that our approach can reveal semantically similar technical terms in other language successfully.

• 한국한의학연구원논문집
• /
• 제13권1호통권19호
• /
• pp.101-107
• /
• 2007

Aims: We have examined and analyzed trends of acupuncture related patents to understand the status of acupuncture technology and research trends of acupuncture in major countries including Korea, the United States, European Union and Japan. Methods: To analyze the patents, we searched and analyzed the total of 1,048 on-line DB based patents under time limit of July, 2006. Results: According to the search results, Korea is mostly superior compared to the others in number of domestic patents. However, Korea patents is inferior in number of international patents and leave much to be desired in industrial applications because of low patents barrier of personal patents and the absence of prospective clients. In addition, in this study, we show an index of international competitiveness and preliminary data of necessity of international cooperation in a field of acupuncture researches. Conclusion: These data suggest that Korea has strong possibility to recover competitiveness for guaranteeing valuable patents, if there are international cooperation and intensive managements of industries in advanced country markets.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
• /
• 제10권2호
• /
• pp.462-480
• /
• 2010

특허분석은 전 세계적으로 축적된 특허 데이터베이스로부터 기업의 연구개발 전략에 필요한 지식을 추출하는 것이다. 현재까지 특허출원 결과를 분석하여 해당기술에 대한 기술동향과 전개과정을 파악하여 향후 개발될 기술에 대한 방향정립을 위하여 특허분석은 필요한 결과를 제공한다. 본 논문에서는 특허분석과 관련된 방법 및 시스템에 대한 기술 분류를 수행하고 관련된 국내특허와 미국특허, 그리고 IEEE 논문을 조사하고 분석한다. 특허분석시스템은 기술 분야의 특성상 특허출원뿐만 아니라 연구결과의 논문발표도 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 본 연구에서 선정된 검색어를 통하여 최종적으로 검색된 결과를 이용하여 기술 분류에 따른 분석을 실시한다. 유효한 전체 특허와 논문을 대상으로 특허분석시스템에 필요한 공백기술을 찾아내기 위하여 매트릭스분석을 수행한다. 현재까지 등록된 특허분석시스템에 대한 기술발전 동향을 파악하고 앞으로 필요한 특허분석시스템 관련 기술발전 방향도 제시한다. 통계적 검정과 자기조직화 지도를 이용하여 유효 특허와 논문을 정량적으로 분석하여 국내특허, 미국특허, 그리고 논문 내에서 상대적으로 개발이 취약한 기술을 찾아내고 이에 대한 개발의 필요성도 함께 제시한다.

• 한국분말재료학회지
• /
• 제22권4호
• /
• pp.289-297
• /
• 2015

As recognized by all scientific and industrial groups, carbon dioxide($CO_2$) capture and storage(CCS) could play an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Especially carbon capture technology by dry sorbent is considered as a most energy-efficient method among the existing CCS technologies. Patent analysis has been considered to be a necessary step for identifying technological trend and planning technology strategies. This paper is aimed at identifying evolving technology trend and key indicators of dry sorbent from the objective information of patents. And technology map of key patents is also presented. In this study the patents applied in korea, japan, china, canada, US, EU from 1993 to 2013 are analyzed. The result of patent analysis could be used for R&D and policy making of domestic CCS industry.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
• /
• 제19권4호
• /
• pp.1-18
• /
• 2012

This paper identifies technology trends of national research and development (national R&D) by exploiting Korean national R&D patents, ranging from 2007 to 2010. In this paper, co-word analysis (CWA), which is a method to identify the relationship among technology terms by using their co-occurrences, is incorporated into network analysis to visualize the relationships among technology keywords of national R&D patents and calculate network indexes concerning inter-relationship diversity and strength of technology keywords. As a result, this research found that inter-relationship among technology keywords in national R&D are getting increasingly strengthening in an overall sense. In addition, the keyword inter-relationship diversity-strength map proposed in this paper revealed some significant technological keywords of national R&D : core technology keywords including "sensor", "film" and "fuel" and emerging keywords including "biosensor" and "thermoelectric". Because the proposed approach helps identify interdisciplinary trends of technology keywords from a massive volume of national R&D patents in a visual and quantitative way, we expect that the approach can be incorporated as a preliminary into the R&D planning process to assist R&D policy makers to understand technology convergence of national R&D and develop relevant R&D policies.