Analysis of the matching between customer needs and patent application portfolio about unmanned aerial

In recent years, UAV called “Drone” has been getting popular, and more opportunities to be reported. Also it becomes easily available for the consumers, and the deployment of various industrial applications are expected. On the other hand, the legal regulation is requested to be more strict to avoid accidents and problems occurred by technical aspects. Companies can acquire the patent rights by the results of development. However, they are often conducted by techniques aspects without considering customers' needs. In some cases, patent portfolio does not meet meets the customer needs. Exclusive rights with weak customer needs do not contribute to increase the market share, the portfolio matching with customers' needs are essentially expected by the company. Therefore, we analyzed for matching between the patent portfolio and customer needs of the UAV manufacturing companies. So, we focus on the regulation and its practical data to grasp the customers' needs, analyzed for matching between the patent portfolio and customer needs of the UAV manufacturing companies.