Patent Landscape of Social Media in Education: A Review

Abstract

This study aims to identify global trends in intellectual property patents and the patent landscape related to social media in education. Researchers applied a patent landscape analysis using data on 17,471 patent intellectual property documents from the Lens database. The study results show that every year, in general, the number of patents about social media in education is rising. There are entrepreneurial opportunities without paying royalties using 3,623 patent discontinues related to social media in education. Patent intellectual property related to social media in education is dominated by company ownership and inventors from the United States. Patents related to social media in education are dominated by the physics (G) and electricity (H) sections. There are 8,260 simple family social media patents in education in 7 jurisdictions of countries or regions and the highest in the United States.