METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROMOTING, OFFERING FOR SALE/LICENSE AND SELLING/LICENSING NATIONAL AND REGIONAL PATENT APPLICATION RIGHTS ASSOCIATED WITH PUBLISHED UNEXPIRED PCT PATENT APPLICATIONS

摘要

A method and system for promoting, offering for sale/license and selling/licensing national and regional phase patent application rights associated with published PCT patent applications are provided. A server computer is connected to the Internet. A patent application database is connected to the server computer. The patent application database has stored therein PCT patent application information associated with published PCT patent applications. The server computer generates data indicative of an interactive Internet website for promoting, offering for sale/license and selling/licensing the national and regional phase patent application rights associated with the published PCT patent applications. The interactive Internet website enables communication between the server computer and users of client computers connected to the Internet. The server computer receives from a first user, via the Internet website executed on a first client computer, a first request for providing information indicative of published PCT patent applications based on user selected search criteria presented to the first user via the Internet website. The server computer searches the patent application database in dependence upon the request and provides the information to the first client computer. The information comprises sale/license information indicative of at least a country or region for which the national and regional phase patent application rights associated with the published PCT patent application are offered for sale/license. The first client computer displays the information in a human comprehensible form via the Internet website executed thereon.