Computer-implemented method and system for automated validity and/or invalidity claim charts with context associations

摘要

A system correlates intellectual property analyses, for example, patent claim charts, with respect to analyzed intellectual property and a target product or other intellectual property. Analyses are stored to enable searching and/or creating reports over multiple analyses. 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 system for generating a patent claim validity analysis, comprising:
a display interface operable to interact with a user via a display; and a processor cooperatively operable with the display interface, and configured to facilitate:
providing one patent claim separated into plural claim elements that constitute the one patent claim;generating a claim chart for the one patent claim, in which each of the claim elements 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 the patent claim validity analysis, wherein to conform means that the target meets all limitations of the claim element, the target of the patent claim validity analysis being another product-or-document to which the patent claim is compared;determining, without manual intervention, in response to the conformance analyses in the claim elements in the claim chart for the one patent claim, whether the claim is valid over the target; anddisplaying, on the display, the claim chart showing the claim elements for the one patent claim and the conformance analysis for each of the claim elements of the one patent claim.