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Patenting Trend of Internet of Things(IoT) in China

중국의 사물인터넷 특허 동향

  • Han, Yoo-Jin (School of Global Service, Sookmyung Women's University)
  • 한유진 (숙명여자대학교 글로벌서비스학부)
  • Received : 2017.05.16
  • Accepted : 2017.08.20
  • Published : 2017.08.28
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Abstract

Recently, the technological development in the Internet of Things(IoT) field has grown rapidly worldwide and China is also expected to show a noticeable growth trend in this field. Therefore, the aim of this research is to analyze the recent trend of Chinese patents in the IoT field. China has been very active between 2010 and 2014, surpassing USA, and the this trend will accelerate in the future. The results of the analysis are as follows. First, the number of IoT-related patents in China increased rapidly from 2010 to 2014. Second, the major actors that led this quantitative increase are firms including ZTE and higher education institutes such as Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Lastly, major technological fields and the convergence networks amongst those fields were analyzed. As a result, it was found that the patenting activity in H04L was the most active and this field has led the convergence among other technological fields.

최근 전 세계적으로 사물 인터넷 분야의 기술 개발이 매우 활발히 이루어지고 있으며, 선진국들은 물론 중국의 성장세가 매우 두드러진 실정이다. 따라서, 본 논문은 사물 인터넷 분야에서 중국의 특허출원 현황을 분석하는 것을 목적으로 하였으며, 분석 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 사물인터넷 관련한 중국 특허는 2010년부터 급격히 증가하였으며, 2014년까지는 미국을 앞지르는 양적 증가 추세를 보였다. 둘째, 이러한 양적 증가를 견인하는 주체는 ZTE를 비롯한 기업들과 난징우전대학(Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications)과 같은 고등 교육 기관들로 나타났다. 마지막으로 주요 기술분야 및 기술분야간 융합 네트워크 분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과, H04L(Electronic Communication Technique: 전기 통신 기술) 기술분야의 특허가 가장 활발히 출원되었을 뿐 아니라, 다른 기술분야와의 융합을 주도하고 있음을 알 수 있었다.

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