IT201900016040A1 - DEVICE FOR MANAGING AN INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY PORTFOLIO MANAGED BY AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - Google Patents

Description

DESCRIPTION

The present invention refers to a device for managing an industrial property portfolio managed by an artificial intelligence.

In general, artificial intelligence (AI), and more specifically the planning of systems capable of operating in a distributed computing environment, is concerned with the science of making machines with the intelligence of humans.

AI encompasses areas such as cognition, understanding, learning, knowledge representation and research.

This invention touches all these aspects of AI.

A sub-category of artificial intelligence systems is that of planners.

A planner can be thought of as a system for searching through a space of possible world states for a path to a particular world state (an objective state) that satisfies a number of externally or internally imposed criteria. There are various strategies for solving these planning problems.

Two of these strategies are standard planners and hierarchical planners.

Planners face barriers similar to the barriers that other AI systems face and include an exponentially growing research space resulting in slow planning, an inability to generalize knowledge from previously generated plans, and difficulties in encoding knowledge in a domain-independent way. .

Another problem faced in the field of AI and planners is the lack of techniques to produce programs capable of controlling a range of activities in a distributed way.

Distributed processing occurs when multiple processors or computers are linked together so that they can work on a common problem.

Distributed computing has the advantage of significantly increasing the computing power of a system simply by adding additional processors.

A technique that can use this increased computing power is a great advantage, and therefore there is a need for a new technique to overcome these problems in the field of AI and planning by identifying states that are consistent over time.

More specifically, it is the identification of sets of observed states with a certain very general property whose property allows the inference of a causal relationship between said states.

Consequently, disclosure provides a method for inferring actions through which the program can affect the world in which it is embedded.

The above, in relation to AI, can be, surprisingly and in a totally innovative way, applied to the process for obtaining registered intellectual property rights, such as registered trademarks, designs and patents, a process that requires continuous monitoring of deadlines, pending actions and correspondence for which even a single application can require many transactions between an applicant and the Patent and Trademark Office responsible for filing intellectual property rights. These transactions are often handled by qualified and registered intellectual property lawyers or representatives (hereinafter referred to simply as representatives) on behalf of the applicant who employ computer systems to monitor the filing and all related procedures following filing, including legal action by attack, defense and prevention.

Current systems generally rely on a database that stores data for each individual applicant procedure and a software-based monitoring device and a server in communication with the database to monitor deadlines and required actions and generate reminders for the representatives.

Conventional intellectual property monitoring systems require manual data entry for deadlines and updates of the life status of the filing performed, systems that could be subject to human error and also lead to an increase in costs for applicants for necessary services of the representative in intellectual property.

In addition, applicants who are not in the jurisdiction in which an intellectual property right is to be filed must often use local representatives to file such applications with further management burden.

The technical task proposed by the present invention is to eliminate the drawbacks described above in the known art.

An object of the present invention is to provide a device for managing an intellectual property portfolio managed by an artificial intelligence which considerably reduces the possibility of human error in the management of the services rendered to the applicant.

It is still an aim to provide a device for managing an intellectual property portfolio managed by an artificial intelligence that reduces costs for the applicant both nationally and internationally.

It is still an aim to provide a device for managing an intellectual property portfolio managed by an artificial intelligence based on a computer device including an online platform to allow applicants more transparency and optionally self-management of the formal aspects of their intellectual property portfolio and to automate many administrative tasks.

It is still an aim to provide a device for managing an intellectual property portfolio managed by an artificial intelligence which also allows the co-management of the intellectual property portfolios of one or more clients by the intellectual property professional and by the clients themselves.

This task as well as these and other purposes are achieved by a device for managing an intellectual property portfolio according to the wording of the first claim.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Figure 1 is a block diagram of the AI running the device.

Figure 2 is a flowchart of an example of processing a data entry for a new filing of trademarks, patents, designs;

Figure 3 is a flowchart of an example of a search; Figure 4 is a flowchart of an example of an automatic subject update process.

With particular reference to the figures described above, the device, managed by an artificial intelligence, has the possibility for the IA of the application of the exclusion technique, ie its ability to separate the relevant data from the redundant data.

In systems with sensor inputs, most of the received data is redundant or irrelevant.

The AI managed exclusion technique provides a useful technique for identifying useful data and coding it in a useful way.

Irrelevant data can then be discarded or ignored.

This allows you to store more relevant data and makes searching much faster.

In particular, the sensors in the system generate status signals that are indicative of the state of the world.

The system sensor can be real or simulated.

New status signal data is generated every time, even if the system only needs to remember new occurrences of data.

These status signals typically represent snapshots of the state of the world over a certain period of time.

AI initially requires searching for status signal data through all previous frames.

The search looks for status signals that are exclusive (i.e. states that do not occur simultaneously in the same time interval). This can be demonstrated using the example of a simple block world commonly used in the state of the art in which a single object cannot be in the right and left hand at the same time but only in one of the two.

While this is intuitively clear to humans, the exclusion technique allows a computer system run by an AI to learn this fundamental relationship.

Some of the benefits of the exclusion technique include the ability to separate relevant data from irrelevant data, store data in an efficient and useful way, allow inference and action formation, allow data to be combined in a useful hierarchical manner, and allow all of the above being run in a distributed computing environment.

In the preferred embodiment, the communication between processors is carried out through a memory shared between the various processors.

Each processor has access to shared memory.

When status signals are received, they are stored in shared memory.

Since these are self-contained packets of information, any processor can be used to process them; therefore, any processor at any time could be looking for concurrent status signals and looking for sets of status signals and actions in such a way as to create an action.

In particular, the device comprises a data store accessible via a communication network, a customer interface through which users access a device controller and the data store via the communication network, while the device controller is located in the data communication with the data archive and customer interface.

In particular, in a preferred embodiment the computer device-based intellectual property portfolio management device comprises a data store configured to store data, including user account data for a plurality of user accounts, a customer interface which provides user access to the device via a communication network by the user's computer systems or devices.

There is also a controller managed by the AI of the device in data communication with the customer interface and the data archive via the communication network.

The device controller includes various functional modules to facilitate and automate many actions associated with managing an intellectual property portfolio.

A user interface and display module are configured to facilitate viewing data for a user and receiving user input via the Client interface.

A user account form is configured to create a user account and manage user account information, including access control of data stored in the data store for archiving, updating and retrieving the data stored in the store data, data for each user, including user account data.

There is also a portfolio asset controller configured to automatically create and administer a plurality of intellectual property and intellectual property topics.

Each intellectual property topic is associated by the AI with a user account to provide automated guidance of one or more activities in relation to each intellectual property or any intellectual property topic.

This module provides functionality to automate the management of many tasks associated with managing an intellectual property portfolio.

The device may also include one or more integration modules, each configured to facilitate communication between machines and between the device and an external intellectual property device.

Transactions between the external intellectual property device and the device are performed under the control of the portfolio asset controller.

Integration modules can be configured for interactions with specific systems, for example, integration modules can include: integration modules of your chosen National Intellectual Property Office, integration modules of external intellectual property business systems, systems integration modules financial, etc.

A plurality of integration modules can be provided to facilitate machine-to-machine interaction with a wide variety of external systems used by intellectual property firms, intellectual property offices, corporations and individual users.

The device architecture allows the IP Portfolio Management Device to act as an intermediary across multiple systems and deliver data retrieved from Intellectual Timeshare systems to a user via a single user interface portal.

The intellectual property management device is also configured to provide guidance to the user for monitoring and action in relation to their intellectual property portfolio. The device can also be configured to automate many actions in relation to intellectual property matters under the control of the portfolio's asset controller, for example by querying the rule of law in intellectual property, receiving and handling correspondence from an Office or representative in intellectual property, by sending correspondence and submitting requests to a National Intellectual Property Office, including filing applications.

The portfolio asset controller is configured to interpret received data to identify a required action in relation to one or more issues; determine the requirements for taking the requested action; retrieve the data required for the action; and automatically activate the execution of the requested action.

Retrieving data for an action can include controlling the UI form to display data entry fields and information to guide a user's data entry.

Some embodiments of the device include an external intellectual property corporate device integrator that allows the machine to communicate with an external intellectual property device to retrieve data from the external intellectual property device and update the data in the external intellectual property device configured to monitor deadlines. associated with each topic and generate reminders for deadlines.

The activity controller can be configured to respond to reminders and deadlines obtained from the external intellectual property device: for example, a reminder associated with a topic generated by the external intellectual property device and retrieved via the external intellectual property device can be used to activate an action in relation to a topic associated with a reminder from the portfolio activity controller.

The device may also include one or more integration modules of a national or international office (EPO or WIPO) of intellectual property, each configured to facilitate machine-to-machine communication between an office intellectual property device and the wallet asset controller.

This allows the device to automatically perform transactions between the Intellectual Property Office and the device, performed under the control of the wallet asset controller. The device enables a method of managing an intellectual property portfolio where the registered user accesses the intellectual property portfolio and the management device and, in response to the user's access, the device allows viewing via the interface Client of a plurality of intellectual property management business options.

Options can include one or more of the following: generate a new subject, archive applications, meet deadlines, take action on pending intellectual property issues, view account status, and make a payment. In response to receiving user input indicating a selected option, the data related to the selected option is retrieved from the portfolio asset controller.

For the selected option, the device generates at least one display based on the retrieved data.

The display includes one or more data entry fields for the selected option and provides indications and tools to facilitate user entry.

One or more data entry fields are arranged so that, in response to the first data entry into the field, the device controller is triggered to do one or more of the following: Change the data entry view to add or remove one or more fields; incrementing one or more fields with the second data based on the first data; calculate and display cost data based on the first data; and refresh the display in response to data entry to view user instructions or additional information.

Therefore, the user is automatically guided by the AI of the device through data entry to accumulate the data required for the selected option.

The accumulated data is then processed by the AI and automatic actions are performed based on the selected option.

The result for the selected option can then be viewed. The portfolio activity controller can be configured to facilitate or automatically perform many actions associated with the management of an intellectual property portfolio device, including automatic archiving applications for IP rights.

The data store can be a database implemented using distributed network accessible memory resources, such as "cloud" based resources accessible over the Internet.

In alternative embodiments, the data archive can be a centralized database always managed by an AI that uses dedicated non-volatile hardware memory resources accessible through a server connected to the network.

The database structure is designed to store data for a variety of intellectual property and customer topics for access and update via instances of the Customer application and from the device controller.

The database structure stores data for a plurality of different individual topics associated with one or more users and user account data.

Subject matter data includes relationship data that defines one or more relationships between users and topics and the relationships from one subject to one or more other issues. In the context of this provision, the term "matter" is a term used to refer to any intellectual property right and other works or activities associated with IP rights that may be relevant in the context of the intellectual property portfolio mechanism.

For example, a matter can be a trademark application, patent application, design application, search, surveillance service, opposition, non-use action, license, assignment, opinion. of violation, a freedom to operate opinions, etc.

An issue can be linked to other issues, for example a trademark application, a trademark assignment issue and a search for similar trademarks.

Additional issues can be created based on an existing issue, such as an original trademark for a trademark filed in a country and the associated convention or divisional application subsequently filed.

When one subject is derived from another, they are often referred to collectively as a "family".

The data binding to define relationships between topics is stored for each topic by the AI, and this data can be automatically generated by the device.

Other architecture variants are also envisaged within the scope of the invention.

The Client application via AI provides an interface for users to access device functionality, users are applicants, intellectual property professionals, intellectual property portfolio managers, or others. The Client application is configured to provide a user interface configured to graphically display information indicating the status of multiple topics to convey "snapshot" information to a user at the document or portfolio level.

The portfolio activity controller is configured to automatically create and administer the activity for a plurality of intellectual property topics via AI, where each topic is associated with a user account.

The Portfolio Asset Controller may also facilitate user-initiated archiving of IPR applications through at least one Intellectual Property Office.

Different embodiments of the portfolio asset controller can be configured to automate multiple functions via AI, including:

• Process new topics, archive data on the subject and take automatic action, if applicable

• Update of the status of the matter and optionally automatic action based on correspondence advice in the event of a change of status at an Intellectual Property Office, received by the device via electronic communication from the Intellectual Property Office

• Topics update and optionally action based on user instruction,

• Update issues and optionally take automated actions based on a data entry or changes entered into a connected intellectual property enterprise device.

For example, the AI can automatically track whether or not renewal fees have been paid, as they may have been paid through channels other than the device.

In response to a request to the Intellectual Property Office indicating the payment of the renewal fee, the status of the matter is automatically updated.

Alternatively, if a response to a request from an Intellectual Property Office indicates that a renewal is overdue, the Portfolio Activity Controller through the AI can automatically generate and send a delayed renewal notification to one or more applicants, managers. intellectual property or intellectual property companies responsible for the matter.

The IA also manages the filing of applications and presentation of documents, the monitoring of deadlines - including the automatic updating of deadlines in response to office communications and actions taken; filing exam questions; the receipt and reporting of examination reports with optional reference to the intellectual property professional or option to select the reference to the intellectual property professional, receiving notices of acceptance / indemnity, status update, reporting and payment of taxes.

And again:

• receiving and reporting grant notifications including updating the status of the matter and generating and sending notifications to the applicant / intellectual property manager;

• monitoring and payment of renewals;

• filing of documents for objections, actions not to use trademarks, patents, etc.

• carrying out research

• deposit assignment or modification of requests for ownership details

• importing into the device of the intellectual property issues already applied for other channels, for example the recovery of data of trademarks and patents (local or international) that instantiate new topics and are populated with recovered data, automatically sending the address for requests updated by service to the relevant Intellectual Property Office;

• forwarding of requests to intellectual property professionals;

• activation of referral to other professionals or services based on the reference rules

• Labor Cost Calculation and Invoice Generation: Invoice generation is triggered when action is taken for the issue.

• automatic action activated by the device based on permanent instructions (eg renewal, request for examination or payment of the acceptance fee).

• loading of documents and / or data files or forwarding of correspondence via e-mail.

• making payments, for example by entering credit card information, the deposit service or specifying a user account code for an account with the Intellectual Property Office.

Some embodiments may also include translation capabilities, for example to automatically provide automatic translations of documents or notifications.

Some embodiments may also include functionality for integration with search engines: for example, for the automatic generation of search strings using the search syntax appropriate for the search engine of the Intellectual Property Office.

Alternatively, the search engine integration can act as a user emulator for entering data into the data entry fields of an IP Office search engine interface.

Some addresses can be configured by the AI to send and receive email, such as an email address configured for automatic communication between the device and a National or International Intellectual Property Office.

Other e-mail addresses can be configured to send e-mails only, such as "unanswered" e-mails.

Emails sent using a "no reply" email address may include reminder emails: such emails may include an embedded link to trigger the opening of the Customer application and automatically direct the user to the appropriate data entry screen to make it easier for the user to respond to the reminder. All the above functions are applicable to trademarks, patents, models and ornamental designs.

Embodiments of the device being managed by AI may also support activities to obtain and maintain patent and design rights.

In particular, many matter management and administrative functions are common or similarly managed for all trademark, patent and design rights.

For example, administrative tasks such as generating new topics, generating invoices, generating reports, monitoring deadlines and sending reminders, sending references to intellectual property professionals, paying renewal fees , etc. may use the same or substantially similar processing of intellectual property law.

Embodiments of the device can be configured to support patent and design rights by adding rules and process flows applicable to these rights without substantial changes to the architecture of the device; in addition, in some embodiments, an interface with the Intellectual Property Office dedicated to specific intellectual property, such as patents, can be added.

This may include automating tasks such as submitting questions, requesting exams, receiving exam reports, archiving answers, paying acceptance fees, registering amendments, registering assignments or changes in ownership, payment of renewal / maintenance fees and research.

Changes and variations to the device for managing the intellectual property portfolio based on a computer device managed by an artificial intelligence according to the invention are naturally possible, all falling within the scope of the inventive concept; furthermore, all the details can be replaced by technically equivalent elements.

In practice, it has been found that a device for managing the intellectual property portfolio based on a computer device managed by an artificial intelligence according to the invention is particularly advantageous for reducing the possibility of human error in the management of services rendered to the applicant, for the reduction of costs for the applicant both nationally and internationally, due to the fact of including an online platform to allow applicants greater transparency and optionally the self-management of the formal aspects of their intellectual property portfolio and to automate many administrative activities, for the possibility also of a co-management of the intellectual property portfolios of one or more clients by the intellectual property professional and the clients themselves.

Claims (12)

CLAIMS 1. Intellectual property portfolio management device based on a computer device managed by an artificial intelligence characterized by the fact of comprising a data store configured to store data, including user account data for a plurality of user accounts, an interface Client providing the user with access to the device via a communication network by the user's computer systems or devices, a device controller in data communication with the Client interface and the data archive, called device controller including a user interface and a display form configured to make it easier for a user to view data and receive user input through the Client interface, a user account form configured to allow you to create a user account and manage information on the user account, including access control of the data stored in the AR data archive for archiving, updating and retrieving the data stored in the data archive, data for each user including user account data, a wallet activity controller configured to automatically create and administer a plurality of intellectual property, each intellectual property topic being associated with a user account to provide automated guidance of one or more activities in relation to each intellectual property or intellectual property topic for a user and facilitate action for one or more activities in relation to an intellectual property issue, and one or more integration modules, each configured to facilitate machine-to-machine communication between the device and an external intellectual property device, where transactions between the external intellectual property device and the device are executed under the control of said portfolio asset controller. 2. An intellectual property portfolio management device based on a computer device managed by an artificial intelligence as claimed in claim 1 characterized in that said integration modules include intellectual property integration modules of the National Office and systems integration modules of each Customer's business. 3. An intellectual property portfolio management device based on a computer device managed by an artificial intelligence as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2 characterized in that said portfolio asset controller is managed by an AI and is configured to interpret the data received to identify a requested action in relation to one or more issues, determine the requirements for taking the requested action, retrieve the data required for the action and automatically trigger the execution of the requested action. 4. An intellectual property portfolio management device managed by an artificial intelligence according to one or more of the preceding claims characterized in that it comprises a computer device, the device being managed by an AI and comprising: a data archive configured to store data, including user account data for a plurality of user accounts; a Customer interface that provides the user with access to the device via a communication network by the user's computer systems or devices; a device controller in data communication with the Customer interface and the data archive via the communication network, the device controller comprising: a user interface and a display module configured to facilitate the display of data to a user and receiving user input via the Client interface; a configured user account module designed to allow you to create user accounts and manage user account information, including access control of data stored in the data archive for archiving, updating and retrieval of data stored in the data store, data for each user including user account data, a wallet activity of said device controller configured to automatically create and administer a plurality of intellectual property matters, each intellectual property matter being associated with an account user to provide automated guidance of one or more activities in relation to each intellectual property and facilitate the submission of intellectual property rights applications through at least one Intellectual Property Office; and one or more intellectual property integration modules of a receiving Office, each configured to facilitate communication between an intellectual property device of that receiving Office and the asset controller of the portfolio, where transactions between the receiving Office of property intellectual and device are performed under the control of the portfolio's asset controller and managed by artificial intelligence. An intellectual property portfolio management device managed by an artificial intelligence based on a computer device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the device controller further comprises an external corporate intellectual property device integrator that allows the computer to communicate with a Intellectual property external enterprise device to retrieve data from the intellectual property external enterprise device and update the data in the intellectual property external enterprise device. 6. A computer device-based artificial intelligence managed intellectual property portfolio device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the data store is further configured to store material data for a plurality of intellectual property matters, each property subject intellectual property being associated with one or more user accounts and the external intellectual property device integrator is configured to allow comparison of data with an external intellectual property device, where the material data stored in the data store for each topic is compared with the external intellectual property device. 7. A device of intellectual property managed by a computer device based artificial intelligence as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, wherein the device controller further comprises a financial module configured to determine any fees payable for an activity, generate a payment request and monitor the payment. An intellectual property portfolio device operated by an artificial intelligence based on a computer device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the financial module is configured to receive data indicative of paid taxes. 9. An intellectual property portfolio device operated by a computer-based artificial intelligence as claimed in claim 7 or 8, wherein the financial module is configured to generate an invoice for the activity, deliver the invoice and monitor the status of the invoice for payment. A computer device-based artificial intelligence-managed intellectual property wallet device as claimed in any one of claims 7 to 9, further comprising an integration module configured to interact with a financial device to monitor payments and status of the invoice. 11. A computer device-based artificial intelligence managed intellectual property wallet device as claimed in any one of the preceding claims wherein the portfolio asset controller is configured to automate the filing of trademark and / or patent applications according to the data of a receiving Intellectual Property Office. An intellectual property portfolio device operated by an artificial intelligence based on a computing device as claimed in any one of the preceding claims wherein the portfolio asset controller is configured to automate the preparation of documents based on entered intellectual property data and documents designed for automatic forwarding through the communication network.