System and method for avoiding duplication of effort in drafting documents
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRick A. Hamilton, II, Paul A. Moskowitz, Clifford A. Pickover, James W. Seaman
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Abstract
A system and method is provided for avoiding duplication of effort in drafting documents and, in particular, to a system and method for avoiding duplication of effort in preparing patent related submissions. The method is implemented on a computer infrastructure comprises storing disclosure information related to non-public proprietary innovation and receiving terms associated with an innovation. The method further comprises matching the terms with the stored disclosure information and providing an alert to a user that certain of the terms overlap with the stored disclosure information.
Claims19
A method implemented on a computer infrastructure, comprising:
- storing, by a computing device, disclosure information related to non-public proprietary innovation;
- receiving, by a computing device, terms associated with an innovation;
- matching, by a computing device, the terms with at least one section of the stored disclosure information;
- providing, by a computing device, an alert to a user that certain terms out of the terms associated with the innovation overlap with the stored disclosure information based on the matching;
- providing, by a computing device, a request to the user for requesting additional disclosure data from inventors of the stored disclosure information;
- providing, by a computing device, an alert to the user of a denial of the request;
- providing, by a computing device, an appeal to the user for appealing the request denial to another party;
- and
- providing, by a computing device, an artificial agent to extract a general topic out of the at least one section of the stored disclosure information without revealing all of a text of the at least one section of the stored disclosure information,
- wherein the disclosure information includes metadata that:
- indicates prior art;
- separates sections of the disclosure information;
- specifies a degree of maturity of sections;
- and indicates which sections are offered by inventors for reuse by others.
A computer program product comprising a computer readable hardware storage device having readable program code stored on the computer readable hardware storage device, the program code comprising:
- program code to store disclosure information related to non-public proprietary innovation;
- program code to receive terms associated with an innovation;
- program code to match the terms with at least one section of the stored disclosure information;
- and
- program code to provide an alert to a user that certain terms out of the terms associated with the innovation overlap with the stored disclosure information based on the matching;
- program code to provide a request to the user for requesting additional disclosure data from inventors of the stored disclosure information;
- program code to provide an alert to the user of a denial of the request;
- program code to provide an appeal to the user for appealing the request denial to another party;
- and
- program code to provide an artificial agent to extract a general topic out of the at least one section of the stored disclosure information without revealing all of a text of the at least one section of the stored disclosure information,
- wherein the disclosure information includes metadata that:
- indicates prior art;
- separates sections of the disclosure information;
- specifies a degree of maturity of sections;
- and indicates which sections are offered by inventors for reuse by others.
A system, comprising:
- a computer device comprising a processor;
- a computer readable hardware storage device;
- and
- computing instructions stored on the computer readable hardware storage device that, when executed by the processor, cause the computer device to:
- store disclosure information related to non-public proprietary innovation;
- receive terms associated with an innovation;
- match the terms with at least one section of the stored disclosure information;
- provide an alert to a user that certain terms out of the terms associated with the innovation overlap with the stored disclosure information based on the matching;
- provide a request to the user for requesting additional disclosure data from inventors of the stored disclosure information;
- provide an alert to the user of a denial of the request;
- provide an appeal to the user for appealing the request denial to another party;
- and
- provide an artificial agent to extract a general topic out of the at least one section of the stored disclosure information without revealing all of a text of the at least one section of the stored disclosure information,
- wherein the disclosure information includes metadata that:
- indicates prior art;
- separates sections of the disclosure information;
- specifies a degree of maturity of sections;
- and indicates which sections are offered by inventors for reuse by others.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.