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There is disclosed a computer-implemented method of handling a text expressed in a natural language comprising creating a second text or patent claim sentence from a first text or patent claim sentence and timestamping said second text or patent claim sentence. Developments comprise the creation of a plurality of texts or patent claim sentences, the use of trusted and / or trustless timestamping, the use of grammatical texts, the use of a parser and / or of a tagger, modification operations such as addition, insertion and deletion, injection of definitions of words, the use of a thesaurus (synonym, hyponym, hyperonym, holonym, antonym of a word, etc), the use of a unique and optionally persistent web address, making the second text or patent claim available to the public (or not), the use of lexical directions such as a patent classification indication and the use of crowdsourcing techniques.

The present invention provides a method and system for re-ranking search results in a patent retrieval system where the query text is derived in whole or in part from a patent claim, which may be from an existing patent or a prospective claim. The re-ranking is based on several features of the candidate patent, such as the text similarity to the claim, international patent code or other classification or subject matter relatedness or overlap, and internal citation structure of the candidates. One alternative aspect provides a re-ranker that is trained on automatically generated training data, thus obviating the expensive and time-intensive step of expert annotation.

Systems, methods and computer program products for creating and valuating intellectual property rights-based financial instruments, including patent futures, options, swaps, and the like, are disclosed. In an embodiment, the present invention provides a “patent derivative” to allow investors (e.g., venture capitalist) to hedge their risk in investing in a high-technology, start-up company with no issued patents, but with one or more pending patent applications. The system includes databases for IP rights and financial information, as well as a central processing trading server that is accessible via internal and external workstations. The workstations provide a graphical user interface to enter a series of inputs and receive information (i.e., output) concerning such a financial instrument. The method and computer program product involve collecting the series of inputs affecting the value of the financial instrument and applying a pricing model modified to account for some aspect of potential intellectual property (e.g., patent) rights.

A method of analyzing a claim in a patent or patent application is disclosed, comprising retrieving a patent claim which has been rendered into a format parsable by a computer program into a computer memory; parsing the claim into a set of discrete elements; categorizing each element in the set of elements according to a predetermined rule; and storing a set of categorized elements in a data store. A parsing program executable in a computer may be used to parse the patent claim and, optionally, to identify one or more keyword sets in the parsed claim. A rating program may also be used to assign a rating weight to each categorized element. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.

A patent document content construction method is described. The method includes the following steps. A domain-specific thesaurus including a plurality of domain-specific terms is constructed. A semantic / syntactic annotation is performed for a claim of a patent to identify domain-specific terms, stop words, general terms, and punctuation. Defined regular expression sets are used to classify the words in a claim to build a structural relation of the claim. The defined expression sets include Common, Claim, Component, Reference, Attribute, Functionality, Contain, and Spatial. The structural relation includes the domain-specific terms, the general terms, and the triple relations of the domain-specific terms in the claim.

The present invention discloses an information alert method and apparatus. The method comprises: acquiring patents subjected to information alert; monitoring whether the above patents comprise a patent whose fee payment deadline is close; if a patent whose fee payment deadline is close is detected, sending information about the patent subject to payment to a user; recording the information about the patent whose annual fee the user chooses to pay; periodically retrieving latest published patent applications related to the subject matter of the patent; and pushing information about the latest published patent applications to the user. According to the information alert method and apparatus provided by the present invention, not only an alert notification concerning annual fee payment can be sent to the user, so as to prevent the user from losing the patent right because of failing to pay the annual fee; but also the information about the patent whose annual fee the user chooses to pay can be recorded, and the latest published patent applications related to the patent information are periodically retrieved and pushed to the user, to help the user rapidly learn the patent protection status and development trend of hot technologies concerning the user, thereby fully utilizing the information about the patent whose annual fee the user chooses to pay, and improving patent management efficiency.

The invention discloses a patent value assessment method. The influences on the patent value from the strength value of a patentee company and the technical competitiveness value of a patent to be assessed are considered respectively, and then weighted summation is carried out; when the strength value of the patentee company is calculated, the factors of the company scale value, the application number of patents of the company, the average cited rate of the patents of the company, the average citing rate of the patents of the company, the average same-class patent number of the patents of the company and the like are included; the strength of the company owning the patent right of the patent citing the patent to be assessed and the strength of the company owning the patent right of the patient cited by the assessed patent are considered; when the technical competitiveness value of the patent to be assessed is calculated, the number of the cited patients by the patient to be assessed, the number of times of being cited by patents and the number of same-class patents of the patient to be assessed are considered. Comprehensive and accurate searching based on the DWPI database is carried out, the value of each patent in the DWPI database can be calculated, high effectiveness is obtained, and the patent value assessment method can be applied to assessment of patent value.

The system for managing patents is applicable to the interior of corporations, providing the comprehensive management mode. Based on the period for reminding users of paying the patent fee, the executing system prompts users to pay the patent fee automatically. The system provides the functions of data retrieval, record updating and form generation assist the users to manage the enormous data for paying the patent fees. The invention prevnets the lack of paying the patent fees caused by the personal neglects resulting in lose of the patent right.

The invention discloses a method and device for information notification. The method includes obtaining patents that require information notification, monitoring whether some patents among the said patents approach fee-paying deadline, sending the information of the patents requiring paying to users if patents approaching fee-paying deadline are spotted, ordering the patents requiring paying based on the information of the patents requiring paying to obtain an ordered fee-paying patent list, determining whether analyzing all or some patents requiring paying in the ordered patent-requiring-paying list is necessary, if yes, analyzing all or some patents requiring paying to obtain associated information of all or some patents requiring paying, and sending related information to users so that user can decide whether or not to pay fees again accordingly. Annual fee-paying notifications are sent to users to prevent expiration of patent right due to not paying fees timely. The patents requiring paying are arranged orderly, and all or some ordered patents requiring paying are analyzed so that user can decide whether or not to pay fees again accordingly. The patent management efficiency is improved, and the patent cost is reduced.

An advanced relational database and user interface system used for the evaluation, analysis and generation of specialized reports in any of a plurality data analysis environments. The database and analysis system can be utilized for many purposes, but particularly and preferably to support the analysis of patent claims and more specifically claim construction, infringement, written description, invalidity and / or patentability, among other matters of intellectual property litigation and analysis.

The invention discloses a product tort monitoring system. The product tort monitoring system comprises a patent file input module used for inputting an appearance design patent file, an extraction module used for identifying and selecting a picture in the appearance design patent file, a retrieval module used for retrieving product pictures of related products and corresponding links from a database according to the picture and performing storage, a similarity computing module used for computing the similarity between the picture and the retrieved product pictures, a screening module that reserves and sorts the product pictures with the similarity greater than a threshold, and a display module used for displaying the product pictures reserved after screening and the links corresponding to the product pictures. According to the product tort monitoring system, the product pictures sold by websites can be monitored and collected in real time for enterprises to perform tort analysis for maintaining patent rights. The invention furthermore discloses a monitoring method for the product tort monitoring system.

The invention provides a patent fee withholding system and a method thereof. The patent fee withholding system comprises a background management system and a client connected with a business support module via networks, the background management system has functions of patent information inputting, checking, and screening, the client displays an information interface via a browser, the displayed information interface comprises a register module, a login module, a checking module, a screening module, and a payment module, and the business support module comprises a database, a data operation module, and a short message transmit-receive module with an auto-response function. The invention also provides a patent fee paying method based on the patent fee withholding system. By employing the patient fee withholding system and the method thereof, the workload for the clients can be greatly reduced, consequences of patent failure due to late fee payment or recovery of the patent right via the payment of right requirement recovery fees can be avoided, and the manual error cost is reduced to the maximum.

The invention discloses an intellectual property management system. The system comprises a front-end business platform, a server and a background management platform, wherein the front-end business platform receives data information input by a user and transmits the data information to the server, the background management platform acquires the data information input by the user from the server and performs statistical management, and new data information feedback is performed to allow the front-end business platform to perform data updating; the front-end business platform comprises a user registration module, an information sharing and updating module, a case management module and four business functional modules which are connected with the server, the four business functional modules include a patent right protection module, a trademark right protection module, a copyright protection module and an e-commerce right protection module, the four business functional modules share one user registration module, and the user registration module comprises name registration information and mobile phone registration information; the information sharing and updating module is used for synchronously sharing the data information of the four business functional modules from the server into the case management module and transmitting the data updated by the background management platform from the server to the case management module. The intellectual property management system has the advantages that enterprises or individual users can contact with intellectual property agencies, communication cost is lowered, the service quality of the intellectual property agencies can be increased favorably, and the intellectual property management system is simple to operate, fast and efficient.

The invention discloses an internet+ intellectual property operating system and an internet+ intellectual property operating method. The internet+ intellectual property operating system comprises a user client side and a server system database maintenance management side, and achieves functions through software. The user client side comprises a new user registration module and a registered user module. The content of the new user registration module includes factors of a user name (real name), a mobile phone number, a mailing address, an E-MAIL mailbox, an identity card number, a bust photo of a user holding an identity card in hands and the like. The registered user module includes functions of providing information and searching information. The information option includes technical information and fund information, the technical information comprises a patent right, which can extend to include a copyright, a registered trademark, a new plant variety, an integrated circuit, a domain name, a proprietary technology and other types, and the content of the fund information comprises to-be-invested fund amount and matters to be explained. The internet+ intellectual property operating system and the internet+ intellectual property operating method have the effects that the intellectual property value realization channel can be broadened, and the user can connect to the internet for performing intellectual property operation by using a mobile phone anytime and anywhere.

The invention discloses a blockchain technology product circulation patent innovation promotion method, which comprises an inventor, an administrative agency, a rights protection cooperation party, a patent using party and a patent exchange, and the inventor entrusts all the rights of the patent right to the management agency Operations management, including promotion, rights protection; the management agency to assess the patent content, to give the inventor some patent coins: and the patent coin can be traded in the patent exchange, the inventor can obtain legal money. Under the condition that the whole people are involved in the invention of innovation, the invention has a large number of patents owned by the whole people and is no longer a one-to-one patent administration, which will publicize expectations of all mankind.

The invention discloses a patent operation risk control and evaluation system. The system comprises a patent law information extraction module, a patent text reading module, a patent information extraction module, a patent value score generation module, and a patent right stability score generation module. The patent value score generation module reads in patent application date, claim items, patent cited times, patent number of a patent family, and generates patent residual effective year number. The patent value score generation module reads in times and results that a patent is requested in an invalid manner, and times and results of patent related patent lawsuit, and assign each extracted parameter, so as to obtain a total score of patent value of the patent. The patent right stability score generation module reads in times and results that the patent is requested in an invalid manner, and times and results of patent lawsuit, and assigns each parameter to obtain the total score of patent right stability. The system greatly reduces time consumed by retrieval and evaluation by evaluators, and evaluation is more objective, and probability of man-made errors is reduced.

Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for the management and coordination of patent infringement-related analyses, such as freedom-to-operate, patent clearance, and enforcement, are provided. Patent claim information is extracted and presented to users along with purpose-specific workflows that facilitate the capture and presentation of work product on both a claim-by-claim level as well as on a document level. Integrated data management facilitates access to historical work product by interconnecting the various record entities of the system including product information, patent document information, review information, and work product information.

The present invention provides a patent fee management system and method. The patent fee management system comprises a data retrieval module, a fee payment monitoring module, a record updating module, a form generating module and a central control module; the data retrieval module is used for carrying out data fee management of a patent database according to user demands and displaying a data fee management result; the fee payment monitoring module is used for providing a list of fees to be paid in real time; the record updating module is used for updating payment records of paid patent cases; the form generating module is used for automatically generating a form according to the data fee management result and user format setting; and the central control module is used for receiving and transmitting information between the modules of the system. The present invention also provides the patent fee management method. According to the patent fee management system and method which are provided by the present invention, huge patent fee payment data can be managed and patent rights can be avoided being lost due to staff negligence and lack of fee payment.

The invention relates to a big data patent online transaction system, which comprises a buyer terminal module and an online service module, wherein the buyer terminal module comprises a keyword input module, a patent type selection module and a patent search module; the keyword input module comprises basic keyword input and advanced keyword input; and the online service module comprises a patent push module, a patent early warning module, a buyer-seller communication module, an online third-party transaction module, a patent right alteration module, a transaction payment module and a transaction evaluation module. The big data patent online transaction system can solve the defects of the existing technology transaction platform that buyer requirements cannot be systematically searched, a research result of the buyer cannot be accurately pushed, whether there is an infringement lawsuit or other patent disputes in the recommended patent technology or not, risk exist in the transaction funds because a third-party platform is unavailable to act as a guarantee, the service credit is difficult to be judged because there is no transaction platform, the transaction process is inconvenient because the absence of a complete set of system transaction process, and the like.

The invention discloses a method for separating lignin from brown windsor saponin pulp. The method comprises the steps of: adopting lye to regulate the pH value of the brown windsor saponin pulp to 10-12 and carrying out pre-separation to obtain supernatant black liquor of the lignin; adding an inorganic acid to regulate the pH value to 2-4 to lead the lignin to precipitate; and obtaining lignin product by filtering and separating and simultaneously obtaining the saponin pulp with purity of 90 to 93 percent. The brown windsor saponin pulp comes from an invention which applies for patent right together with the invention and is named as production process for extracting saponin from brown Windsor by adopting a catalytic solvent method, and the brown windsor saponin pulp has solid content of 10 to 20 percent with or without the separation of lignin. The method has the advantages of having high one-time lignin extraction yield which reaches 90 to 95 percent for average; realizing separation and recycle of lignin content in brown windsor so as to lead the lignin to be further utilized; and not only obtaining high economic benefits but also largely reducing discharge amount of contamination generated in producing process of brown windsor saponin so as to obtain better environmental benefits.

Disclosed embodiments perform patent claims analysis using preconditioning rules to determine relevant portions of a reference document. A query is submitted to find a set of patents that are similar to the reference document. A set of matching patents from the query are received and claim construction rules are used to determine how a meaning of claim elements of the patents will be ascertained in further analysis. Patent infringement rules and an artificial intelligence (AI) system are used to search the relevant portions of the reference document with the claim constructed claim elements of the patents returned from the search. The set of patents are ranked based on assigned confidence scores indicating a degree to which respective claim elements match the relevant portions of the reference document, and the results are presented to a client device. The system may a machine learning model and a natural language understanding (NLU) system.

The present invention relates to a nuclear-constraining inertial-guidance cold nuclear fusion stack and ionic speed-regulating DC transformer, which are expected to completely solve the problems of energy and environmental protection which human beings are confronted with. The DC transformer can provide clean, secure and limitless nuclear-powered energy for all spacecrafts, aircrafts, ships, vehicles, power plants and other power-consuming device, so that human beings can really enter the age of nuclear energy. And the DC transformer has the following characteristics: under the condition of normal temperature, a special combined electromagnetic field is arranged in the space; according to the inherent magnetic moment and internal electric field of the light nucleus, two nucleuses to be fused are constrained within the same section; the vector of the inherent spinning moment of momentum of the nucleus is adopted to form the inertial-guidance characteristic of the ultra-powerful spinning top which can spin at a speed similar to the light velocity, so as to overcome the deflection of Coulomb barrier and to realize the fusion of direct collision; the similar nuclear-constraining inertial guidance mode is adopted to complete mixed speed regulation of ion beams of different velocities and different types of energy; then the ionic speed-regulating DC transformer is formed and provides significant auxiliary equipment of cold nuclear fusion stack, nuclear engine, and similar nuclear power plant which is used for starting the nuclear fusion and electrical energy conveying system. Therefore, a combined patent right is applied for.

An advanced relational database and user interface system used for the evaluation, analysis and generation of specialized reports in any of a plurality data analysis environments. The database and analysis system can be utilized for many purposes, but particularly and preferably to support the analysis of patent claims and more specifically claim construction, infringement, written description, invalidity and / or patentability, among other matters of intellectual property litigation and analysis.

The invention discloses a patient information management system. An information input module and a retrieval module are arranged in a client side; a background information manual input module, an information importing module and an information prompt module are arranged in a background management module; the client side and a database are connected with an information management module, wherein the information management module comprises an information statistics module, an information evaluation module, an information automatic update module, an information association module, an information recording module, an account login module, an information classification module, a dynamic verification code login module and an information classification module; and an on-line translation module and a data processing module are arranged in the database. The patient information management system provided by the invention has the advantages that the information in the information management system advances with the times, and information retrieval personnel can master a latest similar technology in real time. By use of the patient information management system, a patent state in the system can be reminded in time, a situation that patent right is lost since payment is not carried out on time can be avoided, and patent management efficiency is effectively improved.

The invention relates to a patent keyword data mining big-data warning system which comprises a keyword input module, a patent warning module, a controller module and a cloud server platform. The keyword input module 1 has functions of basic keyword input and advanced keyword input, the basic keyword input includes patient keyword input according to a selected type of patent keyword, technical field, application unit, patent right unit, inventor, application time and authorization time options; the advanced keyword input includes patent keyword input according to combinations of selected diversified types of the patent keyword, technical field, application unit, patent right unit, inventor, application time and authorization time options. The patent keyword data mining big-data warning system has the advantages that the patent keyword data mining big-data warning system can have patent technology keyword thorough search and patent data mining warning reminding functions, and accordingly infringement risks of applied patient technologies can be effectively prevented.

The present invention relates to a patent dispute forecasting apparatus and a method thereof. The patent dispute forecasting apparatus includes a keyword extracting unit which extracts keywords from apatent claim image of a first patent document and a second patent document and the background of the invention, respectively, a similarity calculating unit which calculates background technology similarity and claim similarity between the first patent document and the second patent document by using the extracted keywords, and a cooperative similarity calculating unit which calculates cooperativesimilarity by calculating the claim similarity and the background technology similarity and sets the calculated cooperative similarity as an infringer detection possibility value.