Soo-Myung Choi ¹, Seong-Taek Park ¹, Young-Ki Kim ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Management Information Systems, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju-si, Chungbuk - 28644, KR

Abstract

Objectives: This study, on the subject of China’s electrical and electronic industries which are making much investment in R&D, aims to grasp why they patent or don’t patent the output of R&D. Methods/Statistical Analysis: This study drew “to patent” and “not to patent” factors through specialist Delphi with factors drawn from foregoing studies. With them it proceeded with direct or online survey on the subject of electrical and electronic industries in China. Finally, importance was calculated by finding means and standard deviations from collected factors. Findings: This study aims to look at the purposes of applying or not applying for patent presented by foregoing studies and conduct empirical analysis on Chinese enterprises. It was the order of performance index, preventing patent infringement suit, license profit, preventing imitation and blocking competitor’s activity in the order. It was in the order of maintaining secrecy, patent maintenance cost, making corporate information public, patent application cost, easy invention and difficulty in proving a new invention. Difference between this study and foregoing studies lies in that this study made study on the subject of China’s electric and electronic industry but foregoing studies made survey on Korean enterprises. A small number of samples for metrics seem to have caused such difference. Improvements/Applications: This study’s suggestion is that it can be used by Chinese enterprises at the time of setting up strategic intellectual property rights from R&D stage; Practitioners could use this study for guideline in establishing each company’s intellectual property right strategy.

Keywords

Patent, To Patent, Not To Patent, China Industry, IPR.

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Kwan-Woo Cheon ¹, Young-Ki Kim ², Soo-Myung Choi ², Seong-Taek Park ²

Affiliations
1 Videojet Techonologies Inc, Korea
2 Department of Management Information Systems, Chungbuk National University, Korea

Abstract

Objectives: This study is intended to deal with appropriability in electronic components of Korea, aimed to study measures for strategies to secure revenue in terms of R&D. Methods/Statistical Analysis: The study is based on the Delphi methodology in a rank format. Thus, this study was performed divided into three stages as shown in Schmidt et al. The first was a brainstorming step. The second was reducing a step of reducing the entry of the list. The third was a step of ranking factors. Based on this, priorities of appropriability were determined. Findings: These studies conducted a Delphi survey of the factors presented in the preceding research with experts and primarily draw five factors of the method for securing profitability from R&D. This study analyzed the importance of five appropriability factors with electronic component manufacturers through a ranking-type Delphi method. As a result, the order of importance was as follows: Patent, complementary sales/service, secret, lead-time advantage and complementary manufacturing. Application/ Improvements: The field experts’ opinions were reflected, and with the results of this survey, proper interpretations can be drawn and used by making use of their experiences in the field.

Keywords

Appropriability, Complementary, Lead Time Advantage, Patent, Trade Secret.

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