Purpose oriented patent portfolio management
OwnerAndre L. Maraisinventor
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Abstract
This disclosure comprises a method and system to automatically provide important business information to a user of the system at key decision-making times during the lifetime of a patent with the goal of aligning business and strategies. The system will include an interface into which the client can input information regarding purpose oriented prosecution information on a continual basis and another interface to present the compiled information to the client, or the working attorney, at a later time. This information will automatically be provided to a user based on the detection of a key event in the lifetime of the patent portfolio.
Claims17
A method comprising:
- receiving purpose oriented prosecution information for a patent portfolio, the purpose oriented prosecution information describing a purpose associated with the patent portfolio and providing a basis for a decision made in a lifetime of at least one matter in the patent portfolio;
- detecting an occurrence of a key event in the lifetime of the at least one patent in the patent portfolio;
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- automatically providing, using one or more processors, purpose oriented information to a decision maker based on the detection of the occurrence of the key event.
The method of clam 5, wherein the certain family of matters is associated with a certain geographic region.
A system comprising
- an input module, the input module providing a user an ability to input purpose oriented prosecution information, the purpose oriented prosecution information describing a purpose associated with at least one matter in a patent portfolio;
- a purpose oriented prosecution database, the purpose oriented prosecution database to store the purpose oriented prosecution information for the at least one matter in the patent portfolio;
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- a display module, the display module to transmit the purpose oriented prosecution information stored on the purpose oriented prosecution database to the user based on detecting a key event in the lifetime of the at least one matter in the patent portfolio.
A non-transitory machine readable medium having instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by the machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising;
- receive purpose oriented prosecution information for a patent portfolio, the purpose oriented prosecution information providing a basis for a decision made in a lifetime of at least one matter in the patent portfolio;
- detect aft occurrence of a key event in the lifetime of the at least one matter in the patent portfolio;
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- automatically provide purpose oriented information to a user based on the detection of the occurrence of the key event in the lifetime of the at least one matter in the patent portfolio.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.