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Panel discussion about the role of IP in the IoT community

As Panellists, we welcome Joyce Deuley (CEO & Founder Smart Texas Alliance), Kurt Kelley (CEO& Founder Excelerated Technology Consultants), Dr Alex G. Lee (Founder TechIPm and Managing Partner Liquidax Capital)

What this panel is about

In this panel, we will hear about the application of patents in IoT from Joyce Deuley, Kurt Kelley will discuss the dangers of IP when utilizing 3rd party services to build your total solution and Dr Alex G. Lee will cover several topics on IoT innovation and IoT + Big Data + AI integration strategy insights form patents, IP-based IoT innovation platform for business growth. After the panellists gave an insight into their topics, you will have the opportunity to join the open discussion where you will be able to ask questions and discuss some points directly with the panellists.

About the Speakers

Joyce Deuley: As an IoT analyst and content strategist, Joyce has spent the better part of the last five years examining IoT market trends, challenges and opportunities, and sharing the impact of what the IoT has to offer. Currently, Joyce is the Founder & CEO of a Texas-based, state-wide non-profit, the Smart Texas Alliance,  that is looking to promote and elevate the IoT community in order to make Texas a “Smart State” via education, partnership development, and community engagement.

Kurt Kelley: As CEO of his Technology Consultancy, Kurt specializes in developing relationships between carriers, re-sellers, and industry leading technology providers globally to solve real business challenges. Before founding Excelerated he served in multiple capacities at Verizon, and most recently Stream Technologies where he was responsible for managing the IoT re-sellers and vertical solution providers. With over twenty years of technology experience there is rarely a problem he is unable to organize an end to end solution for.

Dr Alex G. Lee: Alex brings over 25 years of unique experiences and expertise in consulting on business strategy, IP management, technology commercialisation and many more.Some leading companies and research institutions that Dr Lee has worked with include Samsung, Korea Telecom, KMW, MIC Radio Research Laboratory, Boston University, and Georgia Tech. Dr Lee has also founded and managed several companies and industry organizations such as TechIPm, LLC for IP strategy consulting, Xanadu Big Data, LLC for the big data technology licensing and commercialization, and u-City Forum for the IoT smart city development through public-private partnership and is now participating in the MIT Sloan School of Management Executive Program for strategy and innovation.

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Silicon Valley IoT Meetup, Startups Greater Asia Meetup, and IEEE Consultants' Network Joint Workshop

Subject: IoT + AI + Big Data Integration Strategy & IoT Innovation Insights from Patents and IP-Based Innovation Platform

Speaker: Alex G. Lee, TechIPm & Liquidax Capital

Venue: Carr & Ferrell LLP, 120 Constitution Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025

Date and Time: Friday, December 9, 2016 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM (PST)

12:00 -12:30 pm: Lunch and Networking, 12:30 -2:00 pm: Talk and Q&A

Register Online: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-iot-ai-big-data-integration-strategy-iot-innovation-insights-from-patents-and-ip-based-tickets-29584945368

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Have questions about Workshop: Contact Christina Hsiang (christina.hsiang@gmail.com) or Joseph Wei (joseph.wei@ieee.org)

Abstract:

Goldman Sachs, Mckinsey, and other top firms have long been predicting a boom and new era of technology with the ripening of the Internet of Things (IoT) marketing but WHERE are all the players PLACING THEIR BETS?

Exploring innovation insights and analyzing patent trends in verticals such as wearables, smart homes and cities, connected car, and etc. we'll dive into the state of the art of IoT innovations. We will also look at potential innovation R&D areas that can lead to new products/services development and how to take advantage of the Liquidax Capital private equity fund and its IoT Innovation Platform. We will further touch on the impact of fast-growing cross-border technology transfer transactions particularly investments flowing from Asia to the West as well as transfer and distribution of technologies from the West to Asia.

This talk will cover the following topics:

IoT Innovation Frontiers Insights from Patents,

IoT Innovation Development Exploiting Patents

IoT + Big Data + AI Integration Strategy

IoT Innovation Platform for Business Growth

Cross-border IoT Tech Transfer Deal Trends

Leveraging Strengths in the Asian and US IoT Markets

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Alex G. Lee brings over 25 years of unique experiences and expertise consulting with Fortune 500 companies patent monetization firms, law firms, investment firms, and research institutions on technology R&D, technology commercialization, business development, intellectual property (IP) management, and business strategy consulting into business, technology, and IP integrated strategy development and execution.

Some leading companies and research institutions that Dr. Lee has worked with include Samsung, Korea Telecom, KMW, MIC Radio Research Laboratory, Boston University, and Georgia Tech. Dr. Lee  also has founded and managed several companies and industry organizations such as TechIPm, LLC for IP strategy consulting, Xanadu Big Data, LLC for the big data technology licensing and commercialization, and u-City Forum for the IoT smart city development through public-private partnership.

Dr. Lee earned his Ph.D. in physics from the Johns Hopkins University and J.D. from the Suffolk University Law School. He is registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office, is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) and passed New York State Bar Exam. Dr. Lee is now participating in the MIT Sloan School of Management Executive Program for strategy and innovation.

IoT (Internet of Things) Intellectual Property (Patent) Strategy Consulting Services

Internet of Things (IoT) Strategic Patent Development & Monetization for New Business Creation

TechIPm has developed an insightful new patent development and monetization methodology for the emerging IoT market.

Goldman Sachs defines the IoT as the third wave of internet revolution: By connecting billions of devices to the internet, the IoT can open up a host of new business opportunities and challenges. Even though the IoT is getting a huge attention recently the concept of interconnected billions of devices is not new and has been under development for over 10 years. Thus, there are a large number of related patented technologies that can be exploited for developing new products/services, and thus, new business for the emerging IoT market.

Many patent applications and newly issued patents can be further developed for creating new values by amending and creating claims and generating follow-on patents to encompass emerging technology and products/services trends, market demands, and strategic exploitation goals. TechIPm provides consulting for improving existing patents to obtain maximum ROI. TechIPm also provides consulting on developing new patents that can lead to new IoT product/service development exploiting the strategic patent preparation & prosecution, white space analysis, and scenario analysis.

A strategically packaged patent portfolio is the collection of patents that the integrated value propositions of each patent of the portfolio target specific value propositions that are provided by emerging new products/services. Techipm develops the strategically packaged patent portfolio in alignment with a client’s specific IoT business interests (e.g., smart home automation). TechIPm’s methodology for developing the strategically packaged patent portfolio is based on a deep understating of the IoT technologies, extensive experiences in patent analysis and development, and insights into the emerging IoT market. The strategically packaged patent portfolio can be used for monetization through patent sale, patent licensing, commercialization, spin-off, patent banking, and patent-backed financing. TechIPm also can provide consulting on developing monetization program for exploiting the IoT strategically packaged patent portfolio.

For detailed information, please visit

http://www.slideshare.net/alexglee/best-practices-of-ip-patent-strategy-iot-internet-of-things-case-study

TechIPm, LLC is a research and consulting company specializing in emerging technology strategic patent R&D and monetization. TechIPm, LLC consulted diverse industry players in the field of electronics, IT, telecommunications, and computer.

For more information, please contact

Alex G. Lee, PhD, JD, CLP

Principal IP Strategist

TechIPm, LLC

alexglee@techipm.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexgeunholee

IoT Business Reality & Patent Development

I. IoT Business Reality

Goldman Sachs defines the IoT (Internet of Things) as the third wave of internet revolution: by connecting to the internet billions of devices, the IoT opens up a host of new business opportunities and challenges. According to McKinsey, the IoT has the potential to create up to $6 trillion economic value annually by 2025. The IoT has various applications including, smart homes, connected cars, smart grids, smart healthcares, smart businesses and smart cities. Many players across diverse industries including semiconductor, consumer electronics, ICT, healthcare, retail, industrial & manufacturing and transportation are participated in the IoT business. Recently, many global leaders in the IoT business provide the IoT platforms to create diverse platform-based business models and form the IoT business ecosystem. According to the market research of Research and Markets, there are more than 2000 companies (including 260 companies that are offering IoT platforms) that are selling IoT enabled products, playing a vital part in the IoT technology infrastructure, or act as an enabler to the IoT development. The IoT business reality can be summarized as follows.

·         The IoT business will follow either evolutionary or revolutionary development step depending on the innovation characteristics of the building blocks of the IoT - IoT devices: Devices that can sense/recognize their surrounding environments and communicate with other devices; Networks: Connecting/communicating  medium/infrastructure that can interconnect devices and connect devices to the internet; IT systems: Back-end or embedded systems that can process information (data) obtained by the IoT devices (e.g. cloud computing/big data analytics) and provide the value added services exploiting the information.

·         A few major companies will not dominate the growth of the IoT market. Rather, virtually all of business ecosystem players will involved in creating and developing the IoT market.

·         It will take some time to reach the fully gown IoT market. The IoT product/service will keep making life richer, safer and more comfortable and work easier, more productive and more efficient.

·         The IoT business will be interdisciplinary across many industries. The IoT business will have synergies by the convergence of many different technologies or business attributes. The IoT business can create entirely new industries providing dramatically different values to the customers.

II. Patent Development Strategy for the IoT Business Reality

The development of patents (drafting for new applications, creating value through prosecution and strategic patent portfolio development) regarding IoT innovation should consider the IoT business reality. Especially, the IoT patent development should support future development of IoT businesses and commercial implementations of IoT innovations. Additionally, the IoT patent development should support for both ecosystem players’ exploitation and customers’ use of the IoT innovation. To take care of the tasks of the IoT patent development in alignment with the IoT business reality, the system approach to the IoT patent can be applied.

The disclosures of the IoT patent can be considered as a system that is consist of several subsystems: environmental context, IoT sensor, information, transfer mean and processing tool.

·         Environmental context is the context of the surrounding object(s) sensed by the IoT sensor.

·         IoT sensor is a stand-alone or embedded device that can sense/recognize its surrounding environments (including position/movement/identification) with networking capability.

·         Information is the context data obtained by the IoT sensor for specific purpose.

·         Transfer mean is the networking/communicating medium/infrastructure that can interconnect sensing devices and connect sensing devices to the internet.

·         Processing tool the back-end or embedded IT systems/processors that can process the context information (e.g. cloud computing/big data analytics) and provide the value propositions exploiting the information.

Following figure illustrates the IoT Patent system.

Then, the system as a whole and each system can be construed to support future development of IoT businesses and commercial implementations of IoT innovations.

For details regarding the IoT patent development, please contact Alex G. Lee (alexglee@techipm.com).

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Samsung IoT Strategy & Patent Exploitation

I. Samsung IoT Business Strategy

Recently, several S. Korea’s news media expressed their concerns regarding the future of Samsung IoT business. The concerns are based on KT (Korea Telecom)’s recent research report “Smart Home Trends & Implications.” The report doubted Samsung’s capability to drive successful Smart Home business, which is the key IoT (Internet of Things) business of Samsung. The report reasoned that, because Samsung has never been successful in the platform business, Samsung may lack in execution capability to become the winner in the IoT platform wars, and thus, in the emerging IoT market. Rather, the report expected that Apple and Google will lead the future Smart Home market because of their core confidence in platform based SW/IT integration.

In response to the concerns, Asiatoday, a S. Korean newspaper, expressed a different view about the Samsung’s future of IoT business.  Quoting personal discussion with Samsung executives, Asiatoday said that Samsung has never derived the IoT as a main business up to now because the lack of business reality of the IoT market. Rather, Samsung is at the stage of preparing IoT business by focusing on R&D and business ecosystem development. Asiatoday also mentioned that the “Fast Follower Strategy” that Samsung has several success track records will also work in the emerging IoT/Smart Home market because of its HW integration capability across chips, devices, networks and appliances, which are the key business resources for offering new values to customers.

Actually, Samsung has just started to derive the IoT business by providing the open IoT platforms and intensifying relationship with the IoT business ecosystem collaborators. Samsung released the IoT platform “Artic,” an open platform comprised of hardware modules, software, networking and cloud services, in May.  Samsung also recently introduced a Web based platform, IoT.js, to provide interoperable service platform. SmartThings, acquired by Samsung last year, announced the SmartThings Open Cloud, a cloud service. Samsung is fostering its collaboration relationship with innovative IoT start-ups through the Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center in Silicon Valley.

In addition to the efforts to have a leadership in the IoT business ecosystem, Samsung also need to make efforts to form the IoT customer ecosystem. The “First Mover” advantage and the business ecosystem integration capabilities are not the only key success factors that made Apple as the winner in the smartphone market. Keep innovating to offer values to customers and always satisfy customers’ expectations, and thus, to form the Apple fan club and enthusiasts, is the most important success factor. Therefore, to become the winner in the emerging IoT market, Samsung also need to do its best to offer new values to customers and form the Samsung customer communities for customers’ satisfaction and meeting the expectations by orchestrating its IoT business architecture. Following figure illustrates Samsung’s IoT business architecture to orchestrate.

II. Patent Exploitation for Samsung IoT Business Strategy

Samsung is the 2nd largest patent holder in the US (4,952 issued patents in 2014) and the 1st largest patent holder in Europe (2,541 issued patents in 2014). Thus, patents can be a very important business resource to exploit for developing the Samsung IoT business leadership. For example, Samsung patents can be exploited for the development of the disruptive IoT products/services by opening patents to the business ecosystem collaborators in diverse industries (the “Open IP Innovation”). By letting the collaborators develop the disruptive IoT products/services exploiting Samsung patents, Samsung can keep focusing on the current mainstream market in addition to effectively prepare the emerging IoT market created by the disruptive IoT innovation.

Recently, Samsung opened its 38,000 patents in various fields including telecommunication, semiconductor and display to S. Korean SMEs and venture companies as the part of the creative economy innovation center project. Total of 3,000 patents will be provided for free. Samsung will send its patent experts to the center to help exploiting its patents by the selected members of the center. Samsung will need to extend the Open IP Innovation program to its global IoT ecosystem collaborators for developing the disruptive IoT products/services.

A smart and practical method to exploit patents for the development of the disruptive IoT products/services through the Open IP Innovation is to apply the new product/service development methodology in the “Blue Ocean Strategy” (the “Blue Ocean Patent Strategy”). The basic principle in the Blue Ocean Patent Strategy is to exploit patents to achieve the value innovation by using the patented technologies to create new values, and thus, to provide new products/services. The exploitation of existing patented technologies not only allows the low cost IoT product/service development but also provides the protection against competitors’ infringement.

For details regarding the IoT business ecosystem, business models, platforms, disruptive innovation and related patent strategy, please consult the following articles.

IoT Ecosystem & Patent Strategy:  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/iot-ecosystem-patent-strategy-alex-g-lee-ph-d-j-d-clp?trk=pulse_spock-articles

IoT Disruptive Innovation & Patent Exploitation:  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/iot-disruptive-innovation-patent-exploitation-lee-ph-d-j-d-clp?trk=pulse_spock-articles

IoT Business Models & Patent Eligibility:  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/iot-business-models-patent-eligibility-alex-g-lee-ph-d-j-d-clp?trk=pulse_spock-articles

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IoT Ecosystem & Patent Strategy

I. IoT Business Ecosystem

A business ecosystem is the community of business entities that is formed by the competitive and collaborative interactions among business entities for new innovations. A business ecosystem evolves to form a new value network, and thus, to create a new market. The key building blocks of a business ecosystem are the platform providers and value creators. A platform provider develops a platform, which is a collection of core technologies/solutions with open interfaces for interaction with the value creators. A value creator creates values by exploiting the platform.

Many market researchers expect that the interconnected IoT (Internet of Things) devices will create a new market that will result in more than $1 trillion in value added to the global economy within 10 years. Recently, many global leaders in IoT business provide the IoT platforms to create diverse platform-based business models and form the IoT business ecosystem. According to the market research of Research and Markets, there are more than 260 companies that are offering IoT platforms. Some of the IoT platforms are as follows.

·         Samsung Artik platform can help developers create new sensor-enabled devices. Artik platform includes a family of processors and wireless connectivity that can power and connect everything such as servers, smartphones and wearables (https://www.artik.io/).

·         Apple HomeKit home automation platform can help developers create new securely connected home automation devices in iOS.  HomeKit enables users to discover HomeKit accessories in their home and configure them, or create actions to control the devices (https://developer.apple.com/homekit/).

·         Qualcomm AllPlay Smart Media Platform allows simple wireless connectivity to individual speakers or an entire home audio system over the user's existing home WiFi network (https://www.qualcomm.com/products/allplay/platform).

·         Google Brillo platform will help developers create connected home environment.

The number of competing IoT platforms is likely to increase for a certain period of time, and then, merge into several dominant IoT platforms through the IoT platform wars, which means the super-competition to form a cluster with value creators at some market positions in the evolved IoT ecosystem. The cluster of a platform will be complex because of participation of diverse ecosystem players across several different industries. Following figure illustrates the clustering of a platform with value creators across the smart home and connected car industry.

II. Patent Strategy for the IoT Business Ecosystem

The patent strategy for the IoT ecosystem should be in alignment with the evolution of the IoT ecosystems initialed by the dynamic reconstruction of value networks through the IoT platform wars. Most of all, the patent strategy for the IoT ecosystem should support the essential features of the dominant design IoT platforms for the IoT ecosystem: modularity, openness and scalability.

Modularity allows various platform components of core technologies/solutions compatible to the independently developed component technologies/solutions. Thus, the patent strategy regarding patent portfolio development for the component technologies/solutions should include the patent outsourcing through patent acquisitions and M&A processes.

Openness provides the flexible and transparent interaction interface for the efficient and effective development of value-added applications by the value creators. Thus, the patent strategy should cover the open licensing program. Additionally, the patent strategy should provide the strong protections to the ecosystem collaborators.

Scalability is the application capability across several industries. Thus, the patent strategy for the patent creation, portfolio development and exploitation should take care of the relationship with the IoT ecosystem players across different industries. This means that the strategic patent creation, portfolio development and exploitation should consider not only the traditional Porter’s competition strategy but also the ecosystem alliance strategy across different industries.

Furthermore, the patent strategy should support the value creation by the platform provider itself. Following is an example of the patent strategy that can support the value creation by the platform provider itself by exploiting existing patents.

HBS Professor Iansiti, the author of “The Keystone Advantage,” suggested technological assimilation as a new engine for technological innovations in his article “Creative Construction.” In the technological assimilation frameworks, a core innovation that once provided stand-alone products or services for a specific market can be the building blocks for mass market generating innovations through assimilation to broader platforms that were not existed at the time of innovations. A good example may be the GPS technology providing LBS (location based services) applications for smartphones and automobiles. Another good example may be the DVR technology of TiVo that was integrated into digital set-top box platforms. By contrasting all possible value propositions from a IoT platform to the potential value proposition(s) provided by the inventive departure(s) (novelty point(s)) of the existing patent(s), the integration feasibility of the existing patented technologies into the platform can be found, and thus, the new integrated value propositions can be developed.

For details regarding the patent strategy for the IoT business ecosystem, please contact Alex G. Lee (alexglee@techipm.com).

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테크아이피엠, 특허를 블루오션 전략에 접목해 새로운 시장을 창출할 수 있는 특허전략 선보여

- 특허를 활용하여 새로운 시장을 개발하고 선점할 수 있는 ‘블루오션 특허전략’ 제시

- ICT 산업에 특화된 블루오션 전략에 특허 수익화 분석 경험에서 얻은 노하우 접목

- IoT 플랫폼을 활용한 IoT 시장 선점 등 다양한 전략 제시

2015년 7월 29일 -- 미국 보스턴에 위치한 전자/정보통신/사물인터넷 전문 특허전략 리서치 및 컨설팅회사인 테크아이피엠(TechIPm, www.techipm.com)은 특허 전략을 기존의 블루오션 전략(Blue Ocean Strategy)에 접목하여 새로운 ICT/IoT 시장을 개발하고 선점할 수 있는 ‘블루오션 특허전략’을 개발했다고 밝혔다.

블루오션 전략이란 특정산업/시장에서 고객들에게 특정제품에 대한 구매를 일으키는 가치제공은 극대화 하면서 동시에 가치제공에 따른 비용은 최소화 하는 ‘가치혁신(value innovation)’을 통해 새로운 고객을 확보하여 새로운 시장을 개발하는 사업전략을 말한다. 블루오션 전략은 이러한 ‘가치혁신’을 통해 고객에게 기존에 없던 새로운 가치를 제공함으로써 경쟁이 가득한 ‘레드오션’에서 벗어나 새로운 시장 즉 ‘블루오션’을 창출하는 전략이다.

테크아이피엠 이근호(미국명 Alex G. Lee) 대표는 “스마트폰 시장이 성숙되고 포화됨에 따라 글로벌 ICT 기업들이 저마다 새로운 시장개발에 적극적으로 나서고 있는 시점에서 특허를 활용한 새로운 고객가치 제공을 통하여 새로운 시장을 개발 할 수 있는 블루오션 특허전략이 요구되고 있다”고 말했다.

테크아이피엠이 제시한 블루오션 특허전략은 이미 입증된 산업/시장에서 개발된 특허화된 기술이 제공하는 가치제공 요소를 활용하여 이종산업/시장의 가치제공 요소를 변화시켜 기존 고객에게 제공하지 못했던 새로운 고객가치 제공을 하는 전략이다.

테크아이피엠의블루오션 특허전략은 이근호대표가 보스턴대학 경영대학원에서 연구한 ICT 산업에 특화된 블루오션 전략에 다년간 특허 수익화에 대한 분석경험에서 얻은 수익성 있는 특허들의 가치제공 특성들을 접목하여 개발되었다.

이근호대표는 “블루오션 특허전략의 일례로, 한국이 강점을 지니고 있는 스마트폰 산업에서 이미 개발되고 입증된 다양한 특허화된 기술들 (UI/UX, 소형화, 네트워킹 기술 등)을 의료기기 산업에 접목하면 기존 고가 위주의 의료기기와 차별화된 새로운 고객가치를 제공하는 저가 의료기기 시장을 형성 할 수 있다” 며“ 이미 개발된 기술을 활용하므로 비용을 최소로 할 수 있고 특허보호를 통하여 경쟁자의 진입을 막는 효과가 있다”고 말했다.

테크아이피엠의블루오션 특허전략은 여러 이유로 기술개발 당시에는 사업화에 성공하지 못했지만 나중에 개발된 플랫폼과 결합하여 사업화에 성공한 사례들, 예컨대 오래 전 개발된 GPS 기술이 자동차 및 스마트폰의 위치추적/내비게이션 플랫폼과 결합하여 큰 시장을 만든 사례 등에 착안해, 기술개발 당시 사업화에 활용되지 못한 특허화된 기술을 특정 산업/시장의 새로운 플랫폼과 결합하여 특허기술과 플랫폼간의 기술동화에 의한 시너지 효과로 혁신적 사업모델을 구현하는 기존블루오션 전략에서 한 단계 진보한 전략이다.

이근호대표는 “최근 포스트 스마트폰 시장으로 주목 받고 있는 IoT 시장을 선점하기 위하여 IoT 플랫폼에 기반하여 시장 생태계 형성을 하고 협력 기업군과 함께 새로운 사업모델 개발을 통하여 자사의 플랫폼을 시장 지배적 플랫폼으로 만들려는 IoT 플랫폼 전쟁이 시작 되었음을 확인했다”며 “IoT 플랫폼 전쟁에 대응한 전략의 한 방법으로 개발된 특허화된 기술이 제공하는 가치제공 요소를 IoT 플랫폼 가치요소에 융합하여 새로운 고객가치를 제공하는 블루오션 특허전략을 통하여 IoT 시장을 선점 할 수 있다”고 말했다.

블루오션 특허전략을 통한 새로운 ICT/IoT 시장개발과 IoT플랫폼 전쟁에 대응한 특허전략 개발에 대한 자세한 내용은 테크아이피엠 이근호대표(alexglee@techipm.com; https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexgeunholee)에게 문의하면 된다. 

Forecasting & Strategy Development for Post-Smartphone (Wearables & IoT Devices) Patent Wars

As the smartphone market matured, many companies are looking for the post-smartphone market that can generate new revenues. Many market researchers expect that the interconnected IoT (Internet of Things) devices will create a new market that will result in more than $1 trillion in value added to the global economy within 10 years. In the short term, wearable computing devices are expected to form an early IoT market by interconnecting body-sensing devices and providing useful personal services including healthcare.

As we have seen in the smartphone market development, it is expected that the super-competition to preoccupy the leadership in the lucrative IoT market can lead to another round of patent wars. The post-smartphone patent wars, however, will be more extensive because of more extensive participation of players across several different industries. The post-smartphone patent wars will also be more complex because of the recent rapid change in legal environment and the learning curve from the smartphone patent wars. Therefore, more advanced and sophisticated patent strategy is required to prepare for the upcoming post-smartphone patent wars.

To confirm the upcoming post-smartphone patent wars, we researched current status of patent disputes regarding wearable computing devices and IoT devices (http://www.slideshare.net/alexglee/postsmartphone-wearables-iot-devices-patent-wars-current-status) and several evidences of the expansion indications of the post-smartphone patent wars (http://www.slideshare.net/alexglee/postsmartphone-wearables-iot-devices-patent-wars-indicators-of-expansion). Then, we developed a strategic forecasting methodology to predict the possible emerging development of the post-smartphone patent wars ( http://www.slideshare.net/alexglee/postsmartphone-wearables-iot-devices-patent-wars-strategic-forecasting-methodology). Finally, we developed a strategic planning methodology to prepare for the emerging post-smartphone patent wars (http://www.slideshare.net/alexglee/postsmartphone-wearables-iot-devices-patent-wars-strategy-development).

TechIPm’s patent strategy development methodology is the key to prepare for emerging patent wars regarding wearable computing devices and IoT (Internet of Things) devices.

For more information, please contact

Alex G. Lee, PhD, JD, CLP

Principal IP Strategist

TechIPm, LLC 

alexglee@techipm.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexgeunholee

TechIPm, LLC is a research and consulting company specializing in strategy for emerging technology and intellectual property management & monetization. TechIPm, LLC consulted diverse industry players (fortune 500 companies, patent monetization firms, law firms, investment firms, research institutions, universities) in the field of electronics, IT and telecommunications.

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미국 보스턴에 위치한 전자/정보통신/사물인터넷 전문 특허전략 리서치 및 컨설팅회사인 테크아이피엠(TechIPm: www.techipm.com, 대표 이근호)은 현재 진행중인 웨어러블과 사물인터넷(IoT) 관련 특허소송 사례들을 분석한 결과 포스트 스마트폰 특허전쟁이 시작되었음을 확인했다며 이에 대응하는 분쟁예측 및 전략수립 시스템(방법론)을 개발 하였다고 밝혔다. 

테크아이피엠이 조사한 최근 특허소송 사례들을 보면, 특허괴물 ‘Masa LLC’은 애플워치가 그들의 특허를 침해하였다고 소송을 제기하였고 최근 상장에 성공한 웨어러블 기기 전문회사인 핏비트(Fitbit)는 경쟁사인 조본(Jawbone)으로부터 특허소송을 당하였다. 

그리고 구글(Google)에 인수된 스마트홈 기기 전문업체인 네스트(Nest Lab)의 피소 등 다수의 사례들이 있다. 또한 웨어러블과 사물인터넷 분야의 활발한 M&A, 증가하는 특허출원 및 매입, 특허괴물들의 심상치 않은 동향 등 전쟁확산의 전조적 증거들을 확인하였다. 최근 특허분쟁과 관련한 자세한 내용은 아래 사이트(http://goo.gl/niXuqV)에서 확인할 수 있다. 

테크아이피엠 이근호(미국명 Alex G. Lee) 대표는 “스마트폰 시장이 성숙되고 포화되어 감에 따라 많은 회사들이 차세대 먹거리를 찾고 있는 시점에서 웨어러블과 사물인터넷(IoT)이 포스트 스마트폰 수익엔진으로 주목을 받고 있다. 따라서 스마트폰 시장의 성장과정에서 경험했듯이 새로운 시장에서의 주도권을 선점하려는 치열한 경쟁에 기인한 또 다른 특허 전쟁이 예상되고 있다. 하지만 이번 전쟁은 다수의 이종산업간의 충돌과 급변하는 법률환경 때문에 스마트폰 특허전쟁보다 더 확대되고 복잡할 것으로 예상되고 있다”며 “다가오는 포스트 스마트폰 특허전쟁을 대비하기 위하여 좀더 발전되고 정교한 특허전략이 요구되고 있다”고 말했다. 

포스트 스마트폰 특허전쟁에 대비하여 테크아이피엠에서는 포스트 스마트폰 특허전쟁의 전개양상을 예측할 수 있는 방법을 고안하였고 예측된 특허전쟁의 전개양상에 대응한 특허전략 기획방법을 개발하였다. 포스트 스마트폰 특허전쟁의 전개양상은 특허 마이닝 기법과 시장정보 빅데이터 분석을 미래예측 시나리오 개발과 연계하여 예측할 수 있고 대응전략은 예측된 특허전쟁의 시나리오에 따른 전략옵션에 따라 마련할 수 있음을 제시하였다. 

포스트 스마트폰 특허전쟁과 그에 대응한 전략기획 리서치 및 컨설팅에 대한 자세한 내용은 테크아이피엠 이근호대표(alexglee@techipm.com)에게 문의하면 된다. 

이근호 대표(https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexgeunholee)는 미국 서픽 대학 로스쿨에서 지식재산법을 전공하였고 존스홉킨스 대학에서 물리학박사를 받았다. 미국변리사 및 공인라이센싱전문가(CLP)로 뉴욕주 변호사 시험에 합격 하였다. 현재 MIT 경영대학원 경영자 과정에서 혁신과 전략분야를 공부하고 있고 전자/정보통신/사물인터넷 분야의 특허 및 신기술 평가/수익화 전략/경영전략 전문가이다. 

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