2011 Volume 50 Issue 5 Pages 415-421
Through analyses of patent applications, which are filed as the product of the research and development in a company etc. and are published in principle, you can know in each technical field who are players and what are their business plan and strong points. The Patent Application Technology Trends Survey carried out by the Japan Patent Office contains the investigation of technical trends in a target field based on patent application information mainly. and shows progress and directionality of the technology development through additional analyses of the research trends, the market trends and so on. We publish its result expecting to be useful for corporate strategy and the research and development strategy. In 2010, we picked out the Fixing of Electrophotographic Apparatus. In this report, we show the result of this survey.
