| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 工業設計系碩士班 === 94 === Generally speaking, patent information is critical for the designer within design activities. Patent information which allows most firms to shorten the research time and to reduce the design costs inherits its high economic value. Although the application of online patent information system is getting more familiar, what are the designers’ needs are less known. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the designers’ needs of online patent information system. The objectives of this study are: 1) to explore that how the designers search patent information and 2) to discover what the designers’ needs on patent information content are. This study first reviewed the literature related to patent information and investigated designer’s awareness of patent information. In the previous study, this study found that “not yet perfect service of the current patent information system” is the major problem for the designers when they search patent information. In order to discover the designers’ needs on online patent information system, by taking the Taiwan Patent (TWPAT) network as an example, this study investigated the needs and satisfactions of the designers, who have the experience on applying patents, on adopting the online patent information system. Ultimately, this study collected 42 participants from 27 manufacturing firms listed on 2005 directory of the approved patent applicants of Top 100 Taiwanese Enterprises, including 17 participants who have accessed the TWPAT network, and 25 participants who have not. There are two main findings in this study. First, the results indicate that the ‘quick search’ is the most searching method for the participants. It means the participants prefer to a more instinctive search method, since they do not need to learn any more. Secondly, the participants tended to adopt patent ‘drawings’ rather than ‘texts’ to diagnose the patents infringement. Moreover, they highly agreed that ‘patent drawings’ of the current online patent information system would be further improved. This study suggests that ‘image content-based retrieval’ and ‘visualization of patent drawings’ should play a crucial role on the development of the online patent information system in the future. Finally, this study made some suggestions on the application of the design patent information for academic research and patent practices.
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