Inventor: Mr. Tran Quoc Bao

Description:

The invention relates to systems, methods and techniques for processing intellectual property assets.

Systems and methods are disclosed to analyze a patent document by receiving patent application text including background, description of drawings, description and claims; generating a claim chart showing claim dependencies; checking for antecedent, support in drawings, support in the description; generating a navigable claim hierarchy; and generating a diagnostic message for the patent document.

Systems and methods are disclosed to analyze a patent document by receiving patent application text including background, description of drawings, description and claims; generating a claim chart showing claim dependencies; checking for antecedent, support in drawings, support in the description; generating a navigable claim hierarchy; and generating a diagnostic message for the patent document.

Advantages of the techniques may include one or more of the following. The techniques provide an easy-to-use software product for applicants to learn and use. The software provides visually based tools to create an intuitive environment in which a patent application may be developed. The tools are simple to use yet sophisticated in their functionality. Inventors and patent agents/attorneys need not learn and use complicated programming techniques to achieve professional results. Rather, a writer needs to learn only a few basic skills and techniques about the art of patenting before the writer can create complex patent applications. Training time is reduced while the quality of work products is enhanced.

The techniques also support electronic patent filing that substitutes an electronic form of a patent application (or any other document related to the prosecution of the patent application) for a paper copy. The electronic form may be a floppy disk or a transmission through on-line communication. The techniques eliminate the cost and delay of physically handling, processing and delivering patent applications. The techniques also interact with the national patent offices in preparing their transmittal information and provide real time acknowledgment of submissions. The techniques also check the documents to be filed for errors and then prepare the documents for filing with the Patent Office.

The techniques also interface with different national electronic patent systems and allow the user to create an application that is compatible with the different national patent systems. The information is interchanged between the software and the various national patent systems using electronic techniques, which reduces most of the application processes conventionally conducted by a user, makes the patenting process efficient, enhances the reliability of the patenting process, and simplifies the control of operation by users.

Source: National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam