Lee Jae-myung's Business-Friendly Policy: Samsung Electronics to Donate 73 Patents to SMEs

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park No-hun] As Gyeonggi Province accelerates its Lee Jae-myung style business-friendly policy with emphasis on fairness and co-prosperity, 34 SMEs and venture companies in Gyeonggi Province are expected to receive 73 patents held by Samsung Electronics free of charge to strengthen corporate competitiveness.

Gyeonggi Province and Gyeonggi Technopark announced on the 29th the "results of the screening for free patent transfer from Samsung Electronics to Gyeonggi Province companies."

This project is part of the "Gyeonggi Province-Samsung Electronics Co-prosperity Cooperation Promotion Business Agreement" signed in December last year, aimed at transferring unused patents held by large enterprises to SMEs and venture companies to enhance technological competitiveness and promote mutual growth between large and small enterprises.

Previously, the province recruited SMEs and venture companies in Gyeonggi to receive free patents from 200 patent technologies held by Samsung in March, and after conducting eligibility screening including core technology capabilities and commercialization potential, decided to transfer 73 technologies to 34 final companies.

Each company will receive between a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 6 patent technologies.

Initially, the plan was to match one company per patent, but the application restrictions were relaxed due to requests from many companies, and applications were accepted.

As a result, the scale of transferred patent technologies amounts to 73 patents in seven fields: ▲10 in home appliances, ▲12 in displays, ▲28 in mobile devices, ▲10 in semiconductors, ▲3 in software, ▲2 in audio/video, and ▲8 in telecommunications/networks.

The technology that received the most interest was "a device and method for registering multiple face images for face recognition," with 6 companies applying, showing a 6-to-1 competition rate.

The province plans to proceed with ownership transfer between Samsung Electronics and the recipient companies by May based on the screening results.

Starting with this first round of recruitment, the province plans to continuously update Samsung Electronics' patents to recruit second-round recipient companies, monitor the usage status of recipient companies, and steadily promote the project.

An official from Company A, which received the technology transfer, said, "It was a great opportunity to receive not only technology from a large enterprise but also coaching and consulting support for commercialization," and "I hope more projects that provide practical benefits to companies will continue in the future."

Meanwhile, during the business agreement with Samsung, Governor Lee Jae-myung stated, "While it is important for large enterprises to succeed independently, the most important value is co-prosperity and coexistence," and emphasized, "We will focus on creating an environment where companies can innovate and demonstrate their capabilities under fair conditions, and based on this, cooperate with each other to expand the entire pie."