The Exploration of Patent Pool Innovation: the Empirical of Blu-ray Disc

• Main Authors: Tsai-Chieh Hsu, 徐采婕
• Other Authors: 王育慧
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/k38nw4

碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 服務與科技管理研究所 === 102 === One of the most effective solutions to patent thickets is the patent pool which multiple licensors unify to license their complementary patents in a package. However, academic researches and empirical investigations are not consistent in whether patent pools encourage innovation performance. Since 2008 to 2013, the annual growth rate of Blu-ray discs was from 83% to 120%. In 2013, shipment quantity reached to four hundred and twelve millions. Thus many company have attracted to invest in this industry. This study uses two competing Blu-ray Disc™ (BD) patent alliances as an empirical case to test 3 hypotheses. The study investigated the two competitive BD patent pools, Premier BD and One-Blue BD, to test several hypotheses: whether patent quality of the two patent pools are different, the correlation relationship between patent quality of patent pools and licensees’ financial performance, whether the formation of a patent pool and the characteristic of the pool member influence innovation performance. The study made several conclusions that patent quality of the two competitive patent pools were significantly different, the correlation between patent quality of patent pools and licensees’ financial performance was less significant, the formation of a patent pool and the characteristic of the pool member statically influence innovation performance.