Research On Evaluation And Control Of Enterprise Patent Risks

Patent is a company's technical innovation which identified as a legally protected corporate knowledge assets. Patent that can make product or producing process improvements by reducing the cost or enriching the value of the product, help enterprise obtain competitive advantages and market value, is an effective way to build the core competitiveness of enterprises. With gradually improvement of market regulation and protection of intellectual property, patent's drawn more and more attention.Development and operation of enterprise's patent is an integrated system engineering includes technical research, organizational management, capital investment and market operation. It needs long cyclical technical exploration and huge capital investment. Enterprise patent risks are uncertainties in the whole process of the patent project those could lead to the development of a negative deviation from the expected and fail the conversion of patent to the market value, finally cause the value leakage. Therefore, valuation and control of enterprise patent risk can provide a new comprehensive perspective of the value of patents for enterprise decision-makers and to help enterprises develop and defend their intellectual property.For the sake of patent value, this thesis defines enterprise patent risk a phased, multi-level system of risk occurring source including the pre-studying stage risks, the researching and developing stage risks, industrializing stage risks and marketing stage risks. Through the establishment, segmentation and evaluation of enterprise patent risk factors, this thesis helps enterprise to focus on those key factors.On the basic study of generation and conduction mechanism of patent risk, this thesis combined patent value and patent risks by extended real options methods. Besides, this thesis dynamic tracked how the affection of patent risks affected patent value through the system dynamics model and real options model. And on the perspective of risk management, this thesis conducted a risk early-warning and controlling system accordingly to the stages of enterprise patent risks, and provided a theoretical basis and practical advice for enterprises to improve the success rate of patent development, operation and maintenance. Finally, this thesis conducted an empirical study on the patent risk management of S company.