This patent document pertains generally to data collection and presentation, and more particularly, but not by way of limitation, to a method and apparatus for cross-referencing important intellectual property relationships.
In a patent application, claims define the scope of an issued patent, and consequently, the claims also define the scope and breadth of the associated intellectual rights or property. A system and method to concisely catalog and describe pending and issue claims may assist a practitioner when providing advice to a client, drafting well-formed claims, and avoiding unnecessary costs during prosecution.
In the drawings, which are not necessarily drawn to scale, like numerals describe substantially similar components throughout the several views. Like numerals having different letter suffixes represent different instances of substantially similar components. The drawings illustrate generally, by way of example, but not by way of limitation, various embodiments discussed in the present document.
The following detailed description includes references to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of the detailed description. The drawings show, by way of illustration, specific embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. These embodiments, which are also referred to herein as “examples,” are described in enough detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention. The embodiments may be combined, other embodiments may be utilized, or structural, logical and electrical changes may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. The following detailed description is, therefore, not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.
In this document, the terms “a” or “an” are used, as is common in patent documents, to include one or more than one. In this document, the term “or” is used to refer to a nonexclusive or, unless otherwise indicated.
In various embodiments, one or more of the features described below are included to provide a system or method for cross-referencing important intellectual property relationships.
The High Level Purposes of CoreIP are as Follows:
The simplest way to track and display claims is to model it as follows:
So, claims are grouped in Sets, and each Set has a Date associated with it, and each Date can have a Date Type, like “Filed”, “Preliminary Amendment”, “Amendment”, “Allowed”, “Issued”
Thus, we have: Claims in Sets and each Set has a Date and each Date has a Date Type.
Now, for each Claim in each Set, we want to be able to assign an Amendment Status.
The Amendment Status's are as follows:
Now, for each Claim in each Set, we also want to be able to assign an Examination Status.
The Amendment Status's are as follows:
Now, for each Claim in each Set, we also want to be able to track Prior Art Cited against each claim.
The Prior Art Cited for each claim includes the following:
In addition, for each claim, we want to keep track of:
In an embodiment, information describing patent applications and related information is displayed within one or more screens on a computer display. The screens may, for example, be child screens in a framed web presentation. In an embodiment, navigational links are provided, such as by tabs at the top of a computer display screen. Using the navigational links or tabs, a user can view refined subsets of information.
At the client node 104, general information regarding is available, such as in a static area of a web page. In addition, one or more grandchild nodes may be provided to allow a user to drill down into further detail regarding the client node 104. In an embodiment, a product space node 108, a concept ontology node 110, a claims node 112, and a references node 114 are provided as children to the client node 104. While, in some example embodiments, the grandchildren node 108-114 may display some of the same or substantially similar information, each grandchild node is designed to display information from a particular perspective.
At the matter node 106, information related to the matter is available, such as the matter name, number, file date, client identification, file status, and the like. In an embodiment, the general information in the matter node 106 is made available using a static area of a web presentation. As with the client node 104, the matter node 106, may have, in various embodiments, one or more related grandchild nodes. In this example embodiment, the matter node 106 has a claims node 116, a prosecution node 118, a product space node 120, a concepts node 122, and a cited references node 124 as related grandchild nodes.
In various embodiments, the grandchild nodes 108-124 may additionally have related great grandchild nodes, which may provide further refined views of related information.
In an embodiment, the client-server networked environment 1400 includes a web server 1402, which can communicate over a network 1404 to a client computer 1406. The web server 1402 additionally can communicate using one or more direct or networked connections with other servers, such as an application server (not shown), an email server (not shown), and a database management server (not shown). In addition, a database 1408 is communicatively coupled to the network 1404.
In an embodiment, the client-server networked environment 1400 is accessed by a client program, for example a browser 1410 (e.g., Internet Explorer distributed by Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash.) that executes on the client computer 1406 and accesses the web server 1402 via the network 1404. In various embodiments, the network 1404 may include the Internet, a wide area network (WAN), a local area network (LAN), a wireless network (e.g., a cellular network), the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) network, or the like.
In an embodiment, the web server 1402 uses software 1412 to receive a request from a client computer 1406, where in response to the request, the web server 1402 accesses the database 1408 and provides information to the client computer 1406. The information may include intellectual property information, as described above.
The computer system 1500 includes a processor 1502, a main memory 1504 and a static memory 1506, which communicate with each other via a bus 608. The computer system 1500 may further include a video display unit 1510 (e.g., a liquid crystal display (LCD) or a cathode ray tube (CRT)). The computer system 1500 also includes an alphanumeric input device 1512 (e.g., a keyboard), a cursor control device 1514 (e. g., a mouse), a disk drive unit 1516, a signal generation device 1518 (e.g., a speaker) and a network interface device 1520 to interface the computer system to a network 1522.
The disk drive unit 1516 includes a machine-readable medium 1524 on which is stored a set of instructions or software 1526 embodying any one, or all, of the methodologies described herein. The software 1526 is also shown to reside, completely or at least partially, within the main memory 1504 and/or within the processor 1502. The software 1526 may further be transmitted or received via the network interface device 1520. For the purposes of this specification, the term “machine-readable medium” shall be taken to include any medium which is capable of storing or encoding a sequence of instructions for execution by the machine and that cause the machine to perform any one of the methodologies of the inventive subject matter. The term “machine-readable medium” shall accordingly be taken to include, but not be limited to, solid-state memories, optical and magnetic disks, and carrier wave signals. Further, while the software is shown in
The foregoing description of specific embodiments reveals the general nature of the inventive subject matter sufficiently that others can, by applying current knowledge, readily modify and/or adapt it for various applications without departing from the generic concept. Therefore, such adaptations and modifications are within the meaning and range of equivalents of the disclosed embodiments. The phraseology or terminology employed herein is for the purpose of description and not of limitation. Accordingly, the inventive subject matter embraces all such alternatives, modifications, equivalents and variations as fall within the spirit and broad scope of the appended claims.
Method embodiments described herein may be computer-implemented. Some embodiments may include computer-readable media encoded with a computer program (e.g., software), which includes instructions operable to cause an electronic device to perform methods of various embodiments. A software implementation (or method) may include microcode, assembly language code, or a higher-level language code, which further may include computer readable instructions for performing various methods. The code may form portions of computer program products. Further, the code may be tangibly stored on one or more volatile or non-volatile computer-readable media during execution or at other times. These computer-readable media may include, but are not limited to, hard disks, removable magnetic disks, removable optical disks (e.g., compact disks and digital video disks), magnetic cassettes, memory cards or sticks, random access memories (RAMS), read only memories (ROMs), and the like.
It is to be understood that the above description is intended to be illustrative and not restrictive. For example, the above-described embodiments (and/or aspects thereof) may be used in combination with each other. Many other embodiments will be apparent to those of skill in the art upon reviewing the above description. The scope of the invention should, therefore, be determined with reference to the appended claims, along with the full scope of equivalents to which such claims are entitled. In the appended claims, the terms “including” and “in which” are used as the plain-English equivalents of the respective terms “comprising” and “wherein.” Also, in the following claims, the terms “including” and “comprising” are open-ended, that is, a system, device, article, or process that includes elements in addition to those listed after such a term in a claim are still deemed to fall within the scope of that claim. Moreover, in the following claims, the terms “first,” “second,” and “third,” etc. are used merely as labels, and are not intended to impose numerical requirements on their objects.
The Abstract is provided to comply with 37 C.F.R. § 1.72(b), which requires that it allow the reader to quickly ascertain the nature of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. Also, in the above Detailed Description, various features may be grouped together to streamline the disclosure. This should not be interpreted as intending that an unclaimed disclosed feature is essential to any claim. Rather, inventive subject matter may lie in less than all features of a particular disclosed embodiment. Thus, the following claims are hereby incorporated into the Detailed Description, with each claim standing on its own as a separate embodiment.
This application is a continuation of and claims the benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. § 120 to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/536,320, filed on Nov. 7, 2014, which is a continuation of and claims the benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. § 120 to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/915,718, filed on Jul. 14, 2008, which is a U.S. National Stage Filing under 35 U.S.C. 371 from International Application No. PCT/US2006/020950, filed on May 30, 2006, and published as WO 2006/128183 A1 on Nov. 30, 2006, which claims the benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(e) to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/685,759, filed on May 27, 2005, which are hereby incorporated by reference herein in their entireties.
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