摘要
数字创新是典型的专利密集型创新,近年来,该领域的策略性专利行为日益凸现,对数字创新产生了不容忽视的负面影响,有必要深入研究数字创新的策略性专利行为。针对时间序列数据的分析表明,同族专利导致了该领域专利数量激增;同时,专利诉讼也呈现爆发式增长态势;在此基础上的研究表明,数字创新领域的同族专利与专利诉讼不是孤立的,二者存在显著的相互促进作用,即同族专利的增长引发专利诉讼的涌现,而专利诉讼的涌现刺激布局更多的同族专利。同族专利的质量在整体上低于基本专利,其过快增长及引发诉讼泛滥的效应值得重视;因此,有必要提高同族专利审查授权标准,以达到“一石二鸟”的效果,遏制策略性专利行为泛滥对数字创新的负面影响。
Digital innovation is typical patent-intensive innovation.Patents have evolved from protection means to competitive tools in recent years.Strategic patent behaviors have been increasingly emerging in the field of digital innovation.Strategic patent behaviors are patent attack and defense behaviors centering on the ownership and use of patent rights.The purpose is to suppress competitors and obtain competitive advantages or commercial interests.This makes it different from traditional patent behaviors such as patent application,patent license,and patent right defending.Under this background,strategic patent behaviors have had a significantly negative impact on digital innovation.It is necessary to have an in-depth research on strategic patent behaviors in digital innovation.Strategic patent behaviors play diversification in digital innovation in recent decades.The most prominent performance is the surge of patent quantity.Therefore,the research starts with the surge of patent quantity to explore the underlying reasons behind it.We select patents in the field of digital information transmission as research samples.The analysis of long time series data shows that the surge of patent families leads to the surge of patent quantity in digital innovation.Patent families are derivatives of basic patents and play a secondary role in the patent system.The overall quality of patent families is lower than basic patents.However,the number of patent families has exceeded the number of basic patents.Patent family is becoming one kind of strategic patent behaviors.At the same time,the number of patent litigations also presents an explosive growth trend in digital innovation.The growth rate of patent litigations has exceeded that of grant patents in this field.Patent litigation is becoming one kind of strategic patent behaviors.It is worth further investigating whether these two kinds of strategic patent behaviors are isolated or related.To clarify the interaction between patent families and patent litigations,we adopt stationarity test and co-integration analysis to analyze the long time series data of patent families and patent litigations.The results show that there is a long-term equilibrium relationship between them.We establish the error correction model.The results show that there is a short-term correction effect in the long-term equilibrium of patent families and patent litigations.There may be an interaction between them.The Granger causality test shows that patent family is the Granger cause of patent litigation when the lag period is 5 to 6 years.Patent litigation is the Granger cause of patent family when the lag period is 1 to 4 years.The research shows that patent families and patent litigations in digital innovation are not isolated.There is a significant interaction between them.The growth of patent families lead to the emergence of massive patent litigations and the emergence of patent litigations stimulate more applications of patent families.The rule revealed by the research has practical significance.How to utilize the policy lever is the key for preventing the overflow of strategic patent behaviors at present.Considering the interaction of mutual promotion between patent families and patent litigations,we could improve the authorization standards of patent families as the policy lever to curb strategic patent behaviors.Improving the authorization standards of patent families appropriately could curb the excessive growth of low-quality patent families.The interaction between patent families and patent litigations will prevent the overflow of patent litigations.We would achieve the policy effect of“killing two birds with one stone”and curb the negative impact of the overflow of strategic patent behaviors on digital innovation.
作者
张米尔
李海鹏
任腾飞
ZHANG Mi-er;LI Hai-peng;REN Teng-fei(School of Economics and Management,Dalian University of Technology,Dalian 116023,China)
出处
《科学学研究》
CSSCI
CSCD
北大核心
2022年第3期545-554,共10页
Studies in Science of Science
基金
国家自然科学基金资助项目(72074042,71572024)
中央高校基本科研业务费资助(DUT20RW213)
关键词
数字创新
专利行为
同族专利
专利诉讼
digital innovation
patent behavior
patent family
patent litigation
