Abstract:Firstly, this paper combs and summarizes the research progress at home and abroad core patent recognition methods, foreign scholars mainly by patent citation, patent family size, the number of claims and patent litigation four indicators to identify the core patent; domestic scholars mainly by patent citation, patent family size, Bradford's law and the comprehensive index to identify the core patent; definition foreign scholars have not given the core patent, domestic scholars are given to define the core patent; then, on the basis of existing research, this paper redefines the concept of core patent, a set a technical field period range in the competitive and / or the market value of the patent is called the core patent, and assumed that patents and other patents compared with some special properties, can be separated from the patent literature information, call this separation method as the core patent recognition; finally, it is pointed out that the comprehensive index to identify the core patents, using objective methods to determine the weight of core patent index, and based on the time domain and the core technology areas of patent indicators effectiveness research is the research direction in the future.