TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding patent portfolio and development strategy of 3D printing technology
AU - Chu, Yen Tzu
AU - Su, Hsin-Ning
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 PICMET.
PY - 2014/10/10
Y1 - 2014/10/10
N2 - This study aims to analyze patent portfolio of three-dimensional printing industry, future trends, as well as to explore how patent strategy could be developed. A total of 1089 patents that belong to 3D printing technologies are retrieved from the United State Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent database for analysis. There are two objects in this research: first, from the patent perspective to distinguish how emerging three-dimensional printing is. The other object is using knowledge flow tool to demonstrate how diversified the 3D printing industry can be. Moreover, by analyzing the 1089 of 3D printing patents, some important implication, i.e. technology life cycle, patent citations, patented characteristics information and knowledge flow, can be uncovered to understand the overall 3D printing technology trends, in terms of (1) Country (2) Industry (3) Organization levels.
AB - This study aims to analyze patent portfolio of three-dimensional printing industry, future trends, as well as to explore how patent strategy could be developed. A total of 1089 patents that belong to 3D printing technologies are retrieved from the United State Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent database for analysis. There are two objects in this research: first, from the patent perspective to distinguish how emerging three-dimensional printing is. The other object is using knowledge flow tool to demonstrate how diversified the 3D printing industry can be. Moreover, by analyzing the 1089 of 3D printing patents, some important implication, i.e. technology life cycle, patent citations, patented characteristics information and knowledge flow, can be uncovered to understand the overall 3D printing technology trends, in terms of (1) Country (2) Industry (3) Organization levels.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84910135724&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84910135724
T3 - PICMET 2014 - Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology, Proceedings: Infrastructure and Service Integration
SP - 1407
EP - 1415
BT - PICMET 2014 - Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology, Proceedings
A2 - Kocaoglu, Dundar F.
A2 - Anderson, Timothy R.
A2 - Daim, Tugrul U.
A2 - Kozanoglu, Dilek Cetindamar
A2 - Niwa, Kiyoshi
A2 - Perman, Gary
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology, PICMET 2014
Y2 - 27 July 2014 through 31 July 2014
ER -