摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To decide the significance of the application of the patent of the other company and/or a self-company based on official report data such as the patent which can be taken in form outside, to add various pieces of information on data and to effectively use official report data. SOLUTION: In an intellectual property information managing server 1, a retrieval part 12 extracts official report data on the self-company from official report data such as CD-ROM, which is read by an official report take-in part 11, and it is taken into a patent abstract news database 15. A significance deciding part 19 decides significance of data associated with respective parts (clients 3) in data in the patent abstract news database 15. Data on application decided to be significant are stored in the information reception servers 41 of work flow servers 4 installed in the respective parts in accordance with the request of the client 3. An information adding part 42 adds information associated with data, lapse information, when the work flow server 4 is arranged in the intellectual property part, for example. |