Market Context — Why This Technology, Why Now

The global software development landscape is rapidly shifting towards modular, component-based architectures and open-source contributions, fueling a massive market for reusable code. Simultaneously, there's increasing pressure to ensure fair compensation for creators and transparent valuation of digital assets. This technology provides a critical solution by automating fair pricing and profit sharing, which is essential for attracting top talent and fostering innovation in a competitive global market. It also addresses the need for robust IP management in a fragmented development environment.

Key Competitive Advantages
01

Optimizes Pricing with AI: Analyzes source code content, transaction history, and external market data to calculate optimal real-time sales prices, maximizing market opportunities.

02

Ensures Fair Profit Distribution: Automatically allocates revenue based on code similarity and contribution, boosting developer motivation and market activity.

03

Adapts to Market Dynamics: Integrates external market trends and competitor data to dynamically adjust pricing, ensuring competitive and market-aligned offers.

Market Opportunity
Software Development Platforms
$350M–$10B globally (AI est.)
This technology could facilitate the distribution and monetization of developer-created source code assets on platforms similar to GitHub Marketplace, fostering new ecosystems.
Major software development platform providers Open-source project hosts Developer tool vendors
AI/ML Model Development Support
$200M–$10B globally (AI est.)
This technology could evaluate the value of digital assets like pre-trained AI models, machine learning components, and datasets, mediating transactions between developers to accelerate AI development.
AI model marketplaces Machine learning platform providers Data science tool developers
Digital Content Creator Economy
$450M–$10B globally (AI est.)
This technology could be adapted to evaluate and facilitate the trading of various digital content, such as game assets, graphic materials, and music files, expanding revenue opportunities for creators.
Digital asset marketplaces Game development studios Creative content platforms
IP Defensibility — Why Competitors Can't Replicate This
What This Patent Covers

This patent establishes broad protection across 9 claims, covering an AI-powered system for source code trading that includes dynamic pricing based on external market data and fair profit distribution through similarity assessment. It represents a robust right, having overcome rigorous examination with multiple rejections and amendments, indicating high validity and stability.

Competitive White Space

White space exists in advanced code quality assessment, automated code generation, or secure deployment environments for traded source code, allowing licensees to build complementary IP.

Economic Impact
~$1M/year estimated revenue opportunity per facility (est.)
estimated ROI · USD · AI analysis
ROI Calculation Logic

Assuming 100,000 annual transactions in the source code trading market with an average unit price of ~$330 (AI est.). This technology's AI pricing optimization could increase the average transaction unit price by 20%, and fair profit distribution based on similarity assessment could increase new listings by 10%. Estimated annual revenue opportunity: 100,000 transactions × ~$330/unit × (1.2 × 1.1 - 1) = ~$1M/year (AI est.). This potential could expand further with market growth.

Speed to Market
4× faster than in-house development
This technology's AI pricing algorithm and source code similarity determination logic are specifically defined within the patent, along with a clear outline of the system's core architecture. This allows licensees to significantly shorten the fundamental research and core algorithm development phases, enabling immediate commencement of system design and development. This could reduce time-to-market by approximately 3 years.
Competitive Positioning

X: AI Pricing Optimization Efficiency
Y: Multifaceted Profit Distribution Fairness

Business Models & Applications
🛒 Source Code Marketplace Operation
Build and operate a proprietary source code trading platform based on this technology, monetizing through transaction fees and premium feature offerings.
🔑 API Licensing
Offer AI pricing, similarity determination, and profit distribution functionalities as an API to existing software development platforms and SaaS companies, generating revenue through licensing fees.
📊 Enterprise Code Asset Valuation Service
Provide services for valuing internal source code assets held by enterprises, or support due diligence for software assets during M&A transactions.
Adjacent Application Opportunities
🎨 デジタルコンテンツ売買
AI-Powered Digital Asset Valuation System
This technology could be repurposed for platforms where creators sell digital content like illustrations, music, 3D models, and NFTs. It could calculate real-time market prices using AI, leveraging comparisons with similar content and external trend data to maximize content value and ensure fair pricing.
💡 知的財産権評価
AI-Automated IP Valuation System for Patents, Designs, Trademarks
This system could be adapted to analyze intellectual property information, such as patent documents, design drawings, and trademark data, using AI to automatically assess market value and similarity. This has the potential to significantly improve the accuracy and efficiency of IP valuation in M&A or licensing negotiations.
📈 SaaS型価格最適化
Dynamic Pricing SaaS for Diverse E-commerce Platforms
The AI pricing and adjustment logic of this technology could be generalized and offered as a SaaS solution for various e-commerce sites and service providers, including apparel, electronics, and ticket sales. It could automatically suggest optimal sales prices based on market supply/demand, competitive landscape, and external events, supporting revenue maximization.
Integration Roadmap — Estimated 12-Month Deployment
Phase 1: Technical Requirements Definition & Design
Duration: 3 months
Define detailed requirements and design the system architecture for the technology's core functions, aligning with the licensee's existing systems and business strategy.
Phase 2: Core Function Development & Prototype Implementation
Duration: 6 months
Develop key modules such as AI pricing, similarity determination, and profit distribution, then implement and internally validate the prototype system.
Phase 3: Pilot Testing & Market Launch
Duration: 3 months
Conduct pilot testing with the prototype for performance evaluation and improvements, implement market-aligned UI/UX, then deploy and launch the service.
Technical Feasibility
This technology's functions, including "storage means," "price determination means," "external information acquisition means," "price adjustment means," "transaction mediation means," and "similarity determination means" as described in the claims, can be implemented as software modules on existing cloud infrastructure. This minimizes large-scale new hardware investment and facilitates easy API integration with existing web services and development tools, indicating low technical adoption barriers. Its implementability with general-purpose development languages and database technologies suggests very high technical feasibility.
Success Scenario
Upon adoption, licensees in the source code trading market could benefit from AI continuously presenting optimal prices, ensuring fair compensation for sellers and access to high-quality code at appropriate prices for buyers. This could stimulate overall market transactions and increase the circulation of quality code due to enhanced developer motivation. Consequently, platform transaction volume may grow by over 20% annually, leading to significant profitability improvements.
Patent Record
APPLICATION NO.
特願2020-124859
REGISTRATION NO.
6971501
FILING DATE
2020/07/22
GRANT DATE
2021/11/05
EXPIRATION DATE
2040/07/22
PATENT HOLDER
株式会社ＯＮＥ　ＡＣＴ
Examination History
2020年07月22日
早期審査に関する事情説明書
2020年07月22日
出願審査請求書
2020年07月22日
手続補正書（自発・内容）
2020年09月09日
早期審査に関する報告書
2020年11月10日
拒絶理由通知書
2020年12月31日
意見書
2020年12月31日
手続補正書（自発・内容）
2021年04月13日
拒絶査定
2021年07月13日
手続補正書（自発・内容）
2021年08月26日
審査前置移管
2021年09月01日
審査前置移管通知
2021年10月07日
特許査定
2021年10月08日
審査前置登録