Topic: Industrial Dynamics: Patenting Perspectives

Time: 8:10, 25 Nov. 2015

Site:B127

Speaker：HU Meizhi (Professor of National Tsing Hua University)

Abstract：This study is based on the premise that the dynamics of an industry are not only driven by patenting activities at the levels of country, industry, and firm, but have also co-evolved along with the various developmental stages of the industrial cycles in each country. Consequently, most merger and acquisition activity, manpower recruitment, patent licensing and lawsuits, and antitrust prosecutions take place in the Trilateral Patent Offices of the US, Japan, and Europe. The most prolific and fastest-growing patentees (in the US, Japan, Germany, Korea, Taiwan, and China) are those that are closely linked with information and communication technology and the biotechnology industries. Emerging policy challenges and future research directions are also elaborated, in order to better describe the role of patenting in the evolving industrial dynamics of the 21st century.