System and method for analyzing patent value

• US 20070294232A1
• Filed: 06/15/2007
• Published: 12/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pantros IP Holding AG
• Original Assignee: Pantros IP Holding AG
• Inventors: Gibbs, Andrew, Gibbs, Stephanie
• Application Number:
  US11/812,135
• Publication Number:
  US 20070294232A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/332 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2216/11 Patent retrieval
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/18 Legal services

Abstract

At least one exemplary embodiment discloses a system, computer program product and method for evaluating the value of a legal document such as a patent-related document. In accordance with at least one exemplary embodiment, a Latent Semantic Analysis (“LSA’) search engine can search a database of patent-related documents to identify an “N” number of patent-related documents deemed thereby as relevant to a target document and indices of the target patent-related document can be compared and scored against the indices of the relevant identified patent-related documents. At least one exemplary embodiment evaluates a plurality of indices of patent-related document value using legal, commercial and/or technological factors.

Claims

1. A system for indexing a target patent document, comprising:

a network accessible to one or more clients;

at least one database on the network, the at least one database populated by a plurality of entries for a plurality of patent documents; and

one or more servers having all or part of a semantic search module, the one or more servers being on the network and operatively interfaced with the at least one database, wherein the semantic search module is configured to run a search query against the plurality of entries populating the at least one database and configured to identify a comparative collection comprised of a defined number of the plurality of patent documents identified by semantic relevancy to the search query.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein at least a portion of the network comprises the Internet.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the semantic search module is configured to generate the search query from a textual portion of a queried target patent document.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the semantic search module is configured to generate the search query from the textual portion corresponding to one or more claims of the queried target patent document retrieved from the at least one database by a control number for the queried target patent document.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more servers further has all or part of a patent factor index module configured to evaluate one or more indices of patent value by comparing a target patent document to the comparative collection.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the one or more indices include one or more legal factors.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the one or more indices include one or more commercial factors.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the one or more indices include one or more technology factors.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein the patent factor index module is configured to statistically compare and score the one or more indices of patent value.

10. The system of claim 5, where the patent factor index module is configured to generate a report.

11. A method for evaluating a patent document, comprising:

semantically applying a search query corresponding to a portion of a target patent document to one or more databases populated by a plurality of patent documents;

identifying a comparative collection of patent documents by semantic relevancy to the search query;

retrieving the patent documents of the comparative collection from the one or more databases; and

evaluating one or more indicators of target patent value, wherein evaluating includes comparing the target patent to the comparative collection.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein comparing the target patent to the comparative collection includes ranking the target patent within the comparative collection by semantic relevancy.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein evaluating one or more indicators of target patent value includes statistically comparing the target patent to the comparative collection.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

scoring at least one of the one or more indicators of target patent value.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

generating a report including one or more scores for the one or more indicators of target patent value.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the portion of the target patent document includes one or more claims of the target patent document.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more indicators of target patent value include at least one legal factor.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more factors of target patent value include at least one commercial factor.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more factors of target patent value include at least one technology factor.