Samsung SDS is accelerating efforts to secure markets ahead of other rivals by accumulating patents. In particular, the company is trying to diversify its registration of patents with a focus on foreign countries.
Figures released by Samsung SDS showed that the ICT unit of Samsung Group registered 1,225 patents in the first nine months of last year.
Samsung SDS tapped “patent competitiveness” as the major buzzwords of the future ICT market. At that time, Samsung Electronics began to be at loggerheads with Apple over design and user interface of smartphones. Xiaomi of China was banned from selling their smartphones in such markets as India due to patent lawsuits, bolstering the significance of patents.
Acknowledging the importance of patents, Samsung SDS has entered a companywide “patent management mode” with the Technology Strategy Team, a department of its research institute, playing a leading role. Out of the patents Samsung SDS has obtained, patents related to smart office and homes accounted for 30 percent, followed by 25 percent for patents related to the mobile and security sectors. The company is now concentrating its focus on securing such technologies as visual analytics, smart manufacturing and logistics using big data analyses.
By country, Korea is first with 1,078 patents, followed by 56 patents in the United States, 44 in Japan and 35 patents in China. Samsung SDS has attached priority to securing patents in Korea, but the company is now turning to the registration of patents abroad.
In a quarterly report, Samsung SDS said the company is exercising patent rights with a focus on intelligent property powerhouses to cope with business patent disputes. Samsung SDS tries not only to protect businesses by securing a wide range of patent portfolios with Samsung Electronics and other subsidiaries, but also to ramp up patent competitiveness by preventing a flood of similar patents.
With the inauguration of the solution business, a new business division, Samsung SDS plans to strengthen patent management. Samsung SDS, now ready to release diverse medical and logistics solutions, will step on the gas to secure more new patents, business sources said.
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Samsung SDS headquarters in Shincheon-dong, southeastern Seoul.(Photos:Samsung SDS)
Samsung SDS President Delivers Keynote Speech at CES 2016
President Hong Won-pyo of Samsung SDS Solution Division delivered a keynote speech at the CES 2016 in which he called for industry collaboration in the Internet of Things (IoT) sector.
In the speech, President Hong said the IoT is not a future technology, it is current, delivering diverse types into daily lives. He called for the expansion of platforms and creating indefinite values through collaboration among industries.
In this regard, he stressed such key elements as smart products, core parts, platforms and security solutions. As to IoT examples, he cited SUHD TVs and refrigerators using IoT hub technologies as well as a system controlling security camera lamps without a separate hub.
He explained that Samsung Electronics’ technological prowess in the health care sector involves a “bio processor,” a chip integrating of functions of gathering and treating living body signals.
President Hong said the combination of the logistics industry, IoT and big data offer such intelligent services as the current location of freight and arrival times. He emphasized the significance of security solutions to protect customers in the case of the full-scale realization of IoT.
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