INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GENERATION SYSTEM
First Claim
1. A method for generating a patent application, comprising:
- receiving a summary or abstract of an invention;
without user request, automatically searching for references of interest including matching patents or published applications and presenting the matching patents or published applications as examples to follow in drafting the patent application;
receiving one or more drawings and annotating the drawings with at least one numbered line whose curve is adjusted with two or more points on the line;
prompting the user to describe each drawing in a description;
capturing inventor information and generating a form selected from a group consisting of a provisional cover sheet and oath/declaration; and
generating an application filing document including the form and the patent application for uploading to a patent office portal that conforms to an open standard for electronic document exchange including one of;
a Portable Document Format (PDF), an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format.
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Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed to generate a patent application by receiving an invention disclosure; locating key concepts in the invention disclosure and searching for patent references of interest; displaying sample patent references without user request to use as drafting examples; receiving one or more drawings generated by a group consisting of a camera, a diagramming tool, a drawing tool, a presentation tool, a word document editor; annotating the drawings with reference numerals and pointer lines; moving the reference numerals and pointer lines to desired positions; generating text description for each drawing; diagnosing the text description to comply with formality requirements; and generating the patent application.
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1. A method for generating a patent application, comprising:
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receiving a summary or abstract of an invention; without user request, automatically searching for references of interest including matching patents or published applications and presenting the matching patents or published applications as examples to follow in drafting the patent application; receiving one or more drawings and annotating the drawings with at least one numbered line whose curve is adjusted with two or more points on the line; prompting the user to describe each drawing in a description; capturing inventor information and generating a form selected from a group consisting of a provisional cover sheet and oath/declaration; and generating an application filing document including the form and the patent application for uploading to a patent office portal that conforms to an open standard for electronic document exchange including one of;
a Portable Document Format (PDF), an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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