Approaches to Infringement Risk Evaluation ofPatent Products for Design-Around

A-DEWS 2015: Design Engineering in the Context of Asia, Asian Design Engineering workshop, 29th - 30th October 2015, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Year: 2015
Author: Chang, Hsiang-Tang; Hsieh, Yi-Ching; Yang, Yuan-Po
Institution: Department of Innovation Design EngineeringNational Kaohsiung First University of Science and TechnologyKaohsiung City, Taiwan, Graduate Program of Industrial DesignNational Kaohsiung First University of Science and TechnologyKaohsiung City, Taiwan
Section: Design for Business
Page(s): 110-114

Abstract

In this article, the authors proposed several approaches to infringement risk evaluation for patent products: (1) An approach integrating patent examination citation rate with Axiomatic design’s matrix to evaluate difficulty of each patent technology and the corresponding effect for design-around (i.e. design without patent infringement); (2) An approach judging priority for design-around by combining patenttechnology- field analysis and element-joint-type evaluation; and (3) A developing approach observing evolution of patent technology and discovering safe region for design-around
inspired by the innovation strategy WOIS.

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