SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROMOTING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

• US 20100324976A1
• Filed: 08/06/2010
• Published: 12/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Martin S. Berger
• Original Assignee: Martin S. Berger
• Inventors: Berger, Martin S.
• Granted Patent: US 8,086,542 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/184 Intellectual property management
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/931 Patent comparison
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/937 intellectual property searching

Abstract

A method and system for the online promotion of intellectual property includes providing an Internet host station with at least one database that is connectable via the Internet to consumer stations and industry stations. The database includes a plurality of intellectual property items and a description of each intellectual property item. At least one of the intellectual property items is selected by a consumer station and the description associated with the selected intellectual property item is viewed at the consumer station. Portions of the description may be confidential and therefore not normally viewed at the consumer station. Feedback data is sent from the consumer station to the host station. The feedback data includes consumer opinion information of the selected intellectual property item based at least in part on the description of the selected intellectual property item. The feedback data is then accessed from an industry station to thereby determine the interest in the selected intellectual property item based on the consumer opinion.

Claims

1. A computerized method of promoting inventions over the Internet communications network, the method comprising:

providing a host computer station constituting an Internet domain site connected to said communications network and having at least one database accessible over said network, the at least one database including a plurality of stored descriptions of respective inventions and their distinctive features;

accessing said database through said network from plural consumer computer stations connected to said network;

selecting at least one of said inventions by the host computer station by reference to the stored invention descriptions and distinctive features for viewing at said plural consumer computer stations; and

receiving feedback data by said host computer station from said consumer stations relating to consumer desirability of the selected inventions with said host computer station and consolidating said feedback data into an information summary; and

making said information summary available over said communications network for display on computer stations connected to said network.

2. The computerized method of promoting inventions according to claim 1, wherein access to said information summary is limited to only authorized computer stations.

3. The computerized method of promoting inventions according to claim 1, wherein:

said selecting of said at least one inventions is from a desired grouping of inventions having at least one feature in common with one another.

4. The computerized method of promoting inventions according to claim 3 wherein said at least one common feature is one of a Standard Industrial Classification code and a North American Industry Classification System code.