KHE International Patent Office
Case Study

Business success by using peripheral patents for business collaboration with third parties

The large Company A specialized in plastic materials developed a composite material of metal-plastic composite used for electronic parts and obtained patent rights for the fundamental production processes .   Company A co-developed and co-invented use inventions expanded from such basic patents with cooperating electronic parts companies, packaging and container companies and then obtained single-owing and joint-held patents with them regarding application and related technologies. Company A registered the commercial name of the complex material as a trademark and widely used it for the composite material as only one sales product distinguished against similar ones.  The commercial name became to be well-known in Asian countries which quickly developed economies and Company A started a strategic business with the composite material.

Cause for business success of Company A

Company A developed application technologies of the complex material with their cooperative manufacturing companies and obtained patents regarding the variation technologies developed in the progress of the application business.  The patents protected the various potential businesses of the products dominating against the competitors.  Company A could covered the market with the commercial name by product-branding.  A new business was successfully created by a group of relevant patents around core technology and he trade mark registration.