TY - GEN
T1 - Analyzing patent characteristics and business strategies of non-practicing entities
AU - Jiang, Syuan Yi
AU - Su, Hsin-Ning
PY - 2014/10/10
Y1 - 2014/10/10
N2 - The operation of non-practicing entities (NPEs) has been denounced, the influences of NPEs are more and more significant on the economy, society and technology. The objective of this paper is to characterize patents owned by selected famous NPE corporations. A total of 12 NPEs with 4,947 utility patents are analyzed in this paper from four aspects: (1) country, (2) industry, (3) corporates, and (4) valuation assertion. Moreover, in the valuation assertion section, 11 patent characteristics are used as indicators for evaluating NPE patents. This paper also compares the degree of patent value among NPE patents, litigated patents and ITC patents in the most significant 6 patent characteristics. One important finding is that NPE patents are verified as more valuable patents than litigated patents and ITC patents. However, No. of patent citation received (also called No. of forward citation; CI), does not show positive relation as other patent indicators do. In summary, this paper offers three major contributions: (1) using 4,947 NPE patents from 1976 to 2012 as sample patents, (2) measuring NPE patents value by 11 patent characteristics and (3) showing that NPE patents are more valuable than litigated patents and ITC patents.
AB - The operation of non-practicing entities (NPEs) has been denounced, the influences of NPEs are more and more significant on the economy, society and technology. The objective of this paper is to characterize patents owned by selected famous NPE corporations. A total of 12 NPEs with 4,947 utility patents are analyzed in this paper from four aspects: (1) country, (2) industry, (3) corporates, and (4) valuation assertion. Moreover, in the valuation assertion section, 11 patent characteristics are used as indicators for evaluating NPE patents. This paper also compares the degree of patent value among NPE patents, litigated patents and ITC patents in the most significant 6 patent characteristics. One important finding is that NPE patents are verified as more valuable patents than litigated patents and ITC patents. However, No. of patent citation received (also called No. of forward citation; CI), does not show positive relation as other patent indicators do. In summary, this paper offers three major contributions: (1) using 4,947 NPE patents from 1976 to 2012 as sample patents, (2) measuring NPE patents value by 11 patent characteristics and (3) showing that NPE patents are more valuable than litigated patents and ITC patents.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84910148748&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84910148748
T3 - PICMET 2014 - Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology, Proceedings: Infrastructure and Service Integration
SP - 1322
EP - 1335
BT - PICMET 2014 - Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology, Proceedings
A2 - Kocaoglu, Dundar F.
A2 - Perman, Gary
A2 - Kozanoglu, Dilek Cetindamar
A2 - Daim, Tugrul U.
A2 - Anderson, Timothy R.
A2 - Niwa, Kiyoshi
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 27 July 2014 through 31 July 2014
ER -