COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANNOTATING A CONTRACT
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Abstract
A system, method, and medium supports analyzing intellectual property documents by linking and annotating patents, copyrights, trademarks, license agreements, and other intellectual property documents. It can be used by intellectual property professionals in memorializing thought processes, work products, and reasoning, in preliminary or final form, and can support development and use of a rich linked set representing complex relationships in an intellectual property portfolio. Optionally, marked up, linked documents are divided into data streams; one contains the original document for mark-up, and one contains annotation data. The marked-up document may be further revised and/or annotated even by multiple users. The same document such as a patent may be centrally stored but independently marked-up by different users (or groups of users). The system extracts from a marked-up document annotation data with any changes, and provides one or more data streams, containing the annotation data for storage and or later use.
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54. A system, implemented on at least one computer, for providing electronic contract information, comprising:
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an electronic storage configured to store electronic contract documents and electronic annotations; and a processor cooperatively operable with the electronic storage, the processor being configured to provide a contract document from the electronic storage; subdivide, responsive to a user, the contract document into sections; enter, responsive to the user, an annotation regarding a relationship between (i) at least one section within the contract document and (ii) at least one other section within the contract document or at least one other section within another electronic document or the other electronic document; and store the annotation in the electronic storage for later retrieval, wherein each annotation can be different from every other annotation, the annotation; indicates the relationship between (i) the at least one section within the contract document and (ii) the at least one other section within the contract document or the at least one other section within another electronic document or the other electronic document, and indicates a predetermined data portion within the contract document as stored in the electronic storage to which the annotation is related as indicated by a document-image-independent data schema. - View Dependent Claims (55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60)
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61. A computer-implemented method of providing electronic patent information, the method being executed on a computer and comprising:
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providing, in a computer processor, a contract document from the electronic storage; subdividing, in the computer processor responsive to a user, the contract document into sections; entering, in the computer processor responsive to the user, an annotation regarding a relationship between (i) at least one section within the contract document and (ii) at least one other section within the contract document or at least one other section within another electronic document or the other electronic document; and storing, by the computer processor, the annotation in the electronic storage for later retrieval, wherein each annotation can be different from every other annotation, the annotation; indicates the relationship between (i) the at least one section within the contract document and (ii) the at least one other section within the contract document or the at least one other section within another electronic document or the other electronic document, and indicates a predetermined data portion within the contract document as stored in the electronic storage to which the annotation is related as indicated by a document-image-independent data schema. - View Dependent Claims (62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67)
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68. A computer program stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium with a method of providing electronic contract information, the program comprising computer-executable steps for:
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providing a contract document from the electronic storage; subdividing, responsive to a user, the contract document into sections; entering, responsive to the user, an annotation regarding a relationship between (i) at least one section within the contract document and (ii) at least one other section within the contract document or at least one other section within another electronic document or the other electronic document; and storing the annotation in the electronic storage for later retrieval, wherein each annotation can be different from every other annotation, the annotation; indicates the relationship between (i) the at least one section within the contract document and (ii) the at least one other section within the contract document or the at least one other section within another electronic document or the other electronic document, and indicates a predetermined data portion within the contract document as stored in the electronic storage to which the annotation is related as indicated by a document-image-independent data schema. - View Dependent Claims (69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74)
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