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Sense / non-sense of patents
1 27-02-2014
Sense / non sense of patents
The primary question is NOT about patents
Patents = a tool
Question = how to obtain commercial success
IP> 80% of value of company
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Intellectual Property
Publish Protect
Keep secret • Share of technology
• Progress technology
• PhD-thesis
• No investors
• Process
• Difficult to prove
• Difficult to analyse
• Protect but also publish
• Monolopy right to enforce
• Adds value to the company
• Attracts investors
Patent
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“The best way to kill an invention is ..….
….by publishing it….”
Lars Andersson,
Center for intellectual Property Studies
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
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What is a patent ?
A technical publication
A legal document
An economic right
A monopoly, the only legally accepted monopoly
Is a reward by society for disclosing technical
inventions
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Two “games”
How to obtain - Novel
- Inventive
- Industrial
applicable
What can you do
- License
- Enforce/monopoly
- Negotiate
- Marketing tool
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What people say
Patent = non-sense
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Patent = sense
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- Too expensive
- Can not enforce
- Nothing new
- Publication of trade secrets
- Strategy tool
- Use for marketing
- Determimes value of company
- Only way to enforce valuable
knowhow
Amount of cases
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Type #
Three dimensional printing 7.404
Selective deposition 2.672
Rapid prototyping 1.510
Rapid manufacturing 1.208
Stereolithography 975
3D modeling 783
# of families 14.191
Large number of patents for a narrow area
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Number of Rapid Prototyping: #
Applications 52.294
Publications 73.392
Countries 77
Granted patents 23.620 (45%)
Families with granted patents 748 (52%)
More numbers…….
European patent applications filed in 2012
Main applicants in main technology fileds
Leading fields of technology in 2012
Applications Applicants # applications / applicant
Medical technology 10.412 3415 3,05
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy 9.799 2234 4,39
Digital communication 9.592 806 11,90
Computer technology 8.288 1809 4,58
Transport 6.633 1629 4,07
Measurement 6.428 2119 3,03
Organic fine chemistry 6.002 1389 4,32
Engines, pumps, turbines 5.668 1213 4,67
Pharmaceuticals 5.364 2219 2,42
Biotechnology 5.309 1872 2,84
All fields 73.495 18705 3,93
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Patents are an important tool for large companies
Large companies have large number of filings
(> 500 each)
In Rapid Prototyping > 14.000 patents
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Facts
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When to file – when not to file?
Product life cycle
Can be analyzed
Strategy
Turnover
Low Investment High
NO YES
Process
Product
Emotions ? ?
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# High
Low
Low
No
No
Short
Yes
Active
High
Long
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