Should we manage the process of inventing? Designing for patentability
Should we manage the process of inventing? Designing for patentability
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我们应该管理发明的过程吗？
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2017
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B. Weil
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Olga Kokshagina;P. Masson;B. Weil
知识产权被认为提供创新的基础设施，公司可以通过专注于发现阶段主动生成知识产权并加强商业机会。本文研究了发明过程是否可以管理，并发现专利的出现不仅是发明活动的结果，也是其目的。通过建立在概念-知识设计理论等最新设计理论的基础上，本研究引入了一个能够控制“可专利性”标准的通用框架，使用行为、效果和相关知识以独特的方式描述专利，并根据本领域技术人员的概念定义可专利主题。利用所介绍的模型，对几种专利设计方法进行了比较并表征了它们的性能。该模型在欧洲半导体制造商意法半导体内部进行了测试。结果表明，专利提案的质量取决于扩展现有知识组合的能力，克服本领域技术人员最初设计推理的能力，并确保新颖性和足够的创造性。最后，本研究中提出的模型，即“可专利性设计”模型，证明了概念（知识设计理论）有一个未经探索的属性——不可替代——表明设计中的顺序是不可逆转的，并影响结果的质量。
Intellectual property is considered to provide the infrastructure of innovation, and companies could proactively generate their intellectual assets and strengthen the business opportunities by focusing on discovery phases. This paper examines whether the invention process can be managed and finds that patents appear not only as a result of inventive activity but as the purpose as well. By building on recent design theories such as the concept–knowledge design theory, this research introduces a general framework that enables controlling for ‘patentability’ criteria, describes a patent in a unique way using actions, effects, and associated knowledge, and defines a patentable subject matter based on the notion of the person skilled in the art. Using the introduced model, several patent design methods are compared and their performances are characterized. The model was tested within the European semiconductor manufacturer, STMicroelectronics. The results indicate that the quality of patent proposals depends on the capacity to extend existing knowledge combinations, to overcome the initial design reasoning of the person skilled in the art, and to ensure novelty and sufficient inventive step. Finally, the proposed model in this research, the ‘design-for-patentability’ model, demonstrates that there is an unexplored property of the concept–knowledge design theory—non-substitution—showing that the order within design is irreversible and influences the quality of results.