| 摘要 |
According to aspects of the present invention, methods, systems, and media are provided for creating, storing, and using an interactive hierarchical arrangement of technical elements useful for conducting efficient patent infringement and similar analysis. The hierarchical arrangement of technical elements is adapted to be displayed on a user-engageable computer display in a manner that allows a user to select and de-select particular technical elements. Methods and systems include storing records of technical elements in hierarchical relationships, which elements are correlated to specific patent claims during an annotation process. The hierarchical arrangement of technical elements is displayed so as to indicate genus-species relationships among the technical elements, while the stored correlations are used as a basis to perform highly efficient claims-based patent analysis. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method of creating an interactive hierarchical arrangement of technical elements useful for conducting efficient patent infringement analysis, the hierarchical arrangement of technical elements adapted to be displayed on a user-engageable computer display in a manner that allows a user to select and de-select particular technical elements, the method comprising:
creating a stored record of a first element, the first element representing a first technical characteristic; creating a stored record of a second element, the second element representing a second technical characteristic that is a species of the first technical characteristic, the second element being programmatically connected to the first element in a manner that preserves its relationship as a species of the first element; creating a stored record of a third element, the third element representing a third technical characteristic; and annotating a first patent document and a second patent document, each of the first and second patent documents including at least one claim that recites an invention, wherein the step of annotating comprises:
correlating a claim of the first patent document with the second element to establish a first stored correlation;correlating a further claim of the first patent document with the third element to establish a second stored correlation; andcorrelating a claim of the second patent document with the third element to establish a third stored correlation; wherein the hierarchical arrangement of technical elements, when displayed on the user-engageable computer display, includes representations of the first element, the second element, and the third element, wherein the representation of the second element is located in a position relative to the representation of the first element that indicates that the second element is a species of the first element, and wherein the representation of the third element is located in a position relative to the representation of the first element that does not indicate that the third element is a species of the first element. |
