Design Information Server License Enforcement Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional systems face challenges in ensuring that product manufacturing is halted unless a patent license contract is concluded, particularly when licensors have independent licenses for design information, leading to potential unauthorized manufacturing.
Innovation Solution
A design information providing system that connects terminal apparatus with a patent license issuing server and a design information providing server, utilizing confirmation information to enforce license contract conclusions, ensuring that design information is only issued after a valid contract is confirmed, and including features like contract certificates and hologram stickers to validate licensed products.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If independent licenses are issued by multiple licensors for design information, then each licensor can independently manage their own intellectual property rights, but unauthorized manufacturing may occur when manufacturers obtain licenses from some licensors but not others
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple independent license management systems into a unified system where a manufacturing suspension mechanism centrally coordinates license verification across all licensors. The mechanism combines license information from multiple licensors into a single verification process, ensuring that manufacturers must obtain licenses from all licensors to avoid product manufacturing suspension.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a mediator mechanism that acts as an intermediary between multiple licensors and manufacturers. This mechanism receives license information from various licensors, verifies it centrally, and controls product manufacturing based on the verification results. The mediator ensures that no manufacturer can bypass any licensor's requirements.
2Productivity
If design information is provided without verifying patent license contracts, then product development and manufacturing can proceed quickly, but patent license enforcement becomes ineffective and unauthorized manufacturing continues
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary verification of patent license contracts before design information is provided to manufacturers. The manufacturing suspension mechanism verifies license status in advance, ensuring that only manufacturers with valid licenses from all required licensors receive design information. This preliminary check prevents unauthorized manufacturing while allowing legitimate production to proceed efficiently.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent establishes a feedback mechanism where the manufacturing suspension mechanism continuously monitors license status and provides real-time verification results to the design information providing system. When license verification fails, the system immediately suspends design information provision, creating a closed-loop control that enforces patent license requirements without significantly delaying authorized manufacturing.
3Reliability
If design information is withheld until license contracts are confirmed, then patent license enforcement is strengthened, but legitimate manufacturing may be delayed due to verification processes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary license verification before design information is released, allowing legitimate manufacturers to complete verification in advance. Once verified, the manufacturing suspension mechanism caches the verification results, enabling subsequent design information requests to be processed quickly without repeated verification delays.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual, time-consuming license verification processes with an automated electronic verification system. The manufacturing suspension mechanism uses digital communication to instantly verify license status with licensors and automatically make authorization decisions, substituting mechanical review processes with electronic automation that significantly reduces verification time while maintaining enforcement reliability.
Data Source
AI summary
A design information providing system, which does not allow continuation of manufacturing of products unless a patent license contract is concluded, includes a terminal apparatus (40a) of a user manufacturing a product (BD player (50)) and includes a patent license issuing server (20a) issuing, to the terminal apparatus (40a), a contract certificate (60) certifying the conclusion of the contract, when a contract for a license necessary for manufacturing the BD player (50) is concluded with the user of the terminal apparatus (40a). Further, the design information providing system includes a design information providing server (an encryption key issuing server (30a)) transmitting an encryption key (80) to the terminal apparatus (40a) on condition of the confirmation of the contract certificate (60), when a request for design information (encryption key (80)) unique to the BD player (50) is transmitted from the terminal apparatus (40a).