- 學位論文
專利母案佈局策略之研究
Method of Constructing Patent Portfolio for Original Patents
摘要
國際間之專利指控案件數量持續增加，如2010年時Apple.Inc控訴HTC侵犯其五項專利，並要求美國政府將HTC所生產之行動通訊裝置扣押於海關，造成HTC損失慘重。同時，此次事件也提升了台灣對於專利之重視與重新審視專利之品質。在經過許多分析後，改善台灣目前專利品質之方法有很多，其中一論點係說明台灣目前的專利策略主要採取被動式佈局。被動式佈局係指企業會先利用技術功效矩陣圖找出專利處女地，亦就是技術缺口，在針對此技術缺口研發亮點技術後再申請專利。運用此類型知專利策略之專利主要是要回避設計，避免觸犯到他人之專利。然而，實際上此類型之專利容易被擁有完整專利家族（由母案、延續案、部分延續案及分割案組成）之專利所捕捉。因此，本研究希望提供一專利母案佈局策略方法-主動式專利佈局，運用專利資料庫所提供之資訊，製作一完善並跨足多個領域之專利母案，使得後續延續此母案所做申請之專利案獲得更良好的專利保護。本論文進一步透過兩個實例分析來展現經由本論文所提出的方法能提升多少專利品質，並解決目前台灣專利所面臨之困境。
並列摘要
The number of international patent cases keep increasing. In 2010, Apple.Inc once accused HTC of infringing on five of their patent rights and requested the US government to seize their goods at customs, which caused a tremendous loss to HTC. The case also highlighted the importance of patent rights and further made us re-asses the quality of patent in Taiwan. In fact, there are plenty of approaches to improve the current issue on quality of patent rights in Taiwan. One of the approach indicates that, in Taiwan, we mainly deal patent with Passive Patent Strategies which means that enterprises first look for unpatented technology (also as technology gap) by Technology Function Matrix, and then apply its patent from the analyzed technology scope. This sort of strategy is passive and mainly given to avoid infringing others’ patent rights; however, this approach of patent deployment exists high potential risk as it still confronts a whole patent family (which includes Original Patent, Continuation Application, Continuation-In-Part Application, and Divisional Application). Therefore, this research aims at offering a new strategy of patent application－Active Patent Strategy, with the information based on patent database (USPTO), designing an Original Patent that covers several fields, to provide the following Continuation Applications, Continuation-In-Part Applications, and Divisional Applications a better protection. Two cases are studied, which shows how an improvement of patent quality issue can be achieved, and solve the conundrum we face in Taiwan.