Computer-implemented method and system for automated patentability and/or design around claim charts with context associations

摘要

A system correlates intellectual property analyzes, for example, patent claim charts, with respect to analyzed intellectual property and a target product or other intellectual property. Analyzes are stored to enable searching and/or creating reports over multiple analyzes. Units of the analysis are associated with a context, inherited, e.g., from the intellectual property document's assignment to a relative role within organizational hierarchy; and associated with a context derived from the analysis itself. The analysis and respective documents and/or targets of the analysis can be searched/retrieved/analyzed from the hierarchical analysis, the context analysis, and/or the content of the analysis. This obviates the need to store each analysis as a separate document. The target or annotations may be visually represented by an item such as a thumbnail or hyperlink, and the system automatically associates the item with the appropriate application program.

主权项

1. A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions being executed by a computer, the instructions including a method for generating a patentability report, the instructions for implementing:
providing a patent claim chart separated into correspondence indications for each of claim elements that constitute one patent claim, in which each of the correspondence indications in the claim chart is configured to indicate, as a conformance analysis, whether the claim element does or does not conform to a target of a patentability analysis, wherein to conform means that the target meets all limitations of the claim element, the target of the patentability analysis being an other product-or-document to which the patent claim is compared; and determining, in a computer without manual intervention and without accessing the patent claim, in response to the conformance analyses in the claim elements in the patent claim chart, whether the one patent claim is patentable over the target, so as to provide a patentability report indicating whether the one patent claim is determined to be patentable.