Systems, methods and user interfaces in a patent management system
AssigneeBlack Hills IP Holdings, LLC
InventorSteven W. Lundberg
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Abstract
A method and system for managing patent matters are provided. The method comprises scraping patent data from an external patent database, the data including event dates of at least one patent matter. The method includes providing a docket engine for docketing the scraped event dates and, based on the scraped dates, calculating response due dates for the at least one patent matter; downloading at least one document from the external patent database; and associating at least one response due date with the at least one downloaded document.
Claims17
A method for managing patent matters, the method comprising:
- scraping patent data from an external patent database, the data including event dates for at least one patent matter;
- providing a docket engine for docketing the scraped event dates and, based on the scraped dates, calculating response due dates for the at least one patent matter;
- downloading at least one document from the external patent database;
- and
- associating at least one response due date with the at least one downloaded document and embedding the at least one response date in the downloaded document.
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A system for managing patent matters comprising;
- an input module to scrape patent data from an external patent database, e data including event dates of at least one patent matter;
- a docket engine to docket the scraped event dates and, based on the scraped dates, to calculate response due dates for the at least one patent matter;
- a search engine to identify and download at least one document from the external patent database;
- and
- a mapping module to associate at least one response due date with the at least one downloaded document and embed the at least one response date in the downloaded document.
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A patent management system comprising:
- a network;
- at least one patent database, accessible on the network, and storing data including event dates for at least one patent matter stored in the database, and
- a server, operatively connected to the network, wherein the server includes:
- a processor,
- a memory,
- software operable on the processor to:
- scrape patent data from the patent database, the data including event dates of at least one patent matter,
- docket the scraped event dates and, based on the scraped dates, calculate response due dates for the at least one patent matter,
- download at least one document from the external patent database, and
- associate at least one response due date with the at least one downloaded document, and embed the at least one response date in the downloaded document.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.