JP2010086063A - Device and method for displaying information of industrial property right - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate confirming the transition of the description of the range of a claim. <P>SOLUTION: A data acquisition part 102 acquires the document data of a document presented to the Patent Office. An association part 103 extracts the character data of the description of the range of a claim from document data on different presentation dates, and executes association processing for associating the extracted character data with the date data of the presentation dates of the document data. A display 108 displays the extracted character data in contrast on the same picture based on the associated date data. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an industrial property right information display device and an industrial property right information display method, and more particularly to an industrial property right information display device and an industrial property right information display method for displaying changes in claims in a comparable manner.

  Conventionally, in a patent monitoring system that monitors the progress of an application, if any progress information occurs within the search period, a search report displaying the progress code, item, and date is sent from the monitoring company to each person in charge. (For example, Patent Document 1).

Conventionally, a method for displaying application progress information for displaying the application progress on a screen by a procedure flowchart is known (for example, Patent Document 2).
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-7608 JP 2002-7547 A

  However, in Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2, although it is known that the correction has been made by looking at the progress information, in order to confirm the correction contents described in the claims, a separate inspection of the packaging is requested from the JPO. Therefore, it is necessary to obtain documents such as procedural amendments. Therefore, in Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2, there is a problem that the correction contents described in the claims cannot be easily confirmed. In particular, when the claim is amended many times, it is difficult to confirm the transition of the description from the description of the initial claim to the description of the final claim after the amendment. There is a problem that there is.

  The present invention has been made in view of such points, and an object thereof is to provide an industrial property right information display device and an industrial property right information display method capable of easily confirming the transition of claims. .

  The industrial property right information display device of the present invention includes an acquisition unit that acquires document data of a document submitted to the Patent Office, and an extraction unit that extracts character data described in claims from the document data on different submission dates, respectively. Association means for associating the extracted character data with date data of the submission date, and display means for comparing and displaying each of the extracted character data on the same screen based on the associated date data The structure which comprises is taken.

  The industrial property right information display method of the present invention is an industrial property right information display method in a display device that displays document data of a document submitted to the JPO, and the step of acquiring the document data and the different submission date Extracting each of the character data described in the claims from the document data, a step of associating the extracted character data with the date data of the submission date, and each of the extracted based on the date data associated with each other And displaying the character data on the same screen.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to easily confirm the transition described in the claims.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

(Embodiment 1)
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an industrial property right information display device 100 according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

  The industrial property right information display apparatus 100 mainly includes an input unit 101, a data acquisition unit 102, an association unit 103, an analysis unit 104, a data synthesis unit 105, a storage unit 106, a display data generation unit 107, and a display unit 108. Is done.

  The input unit 101 is an input device such as a key, a touch panel, or a mouse. The input unit 101 receives an instruction from the outside that displays the transition of the description of a claim of a specific application, and receives industrial property right information of the application instructed to display An instruction signal to be acquired is output to the data acquisition unit 102. In addition, the input unit 101 receives an instruction from the outside for switching the display, and outputs an instruction signal for switching the display to the display data generation unit 107.

  Here, the industrial property right information is information acquired in, for example, an XML data format, and includes document data related to the industrial property right (hereinafter referred to as “document data”). The document data is data including a document code and a character conversion table unique to each document related to industrial property rights defined in the XML data. A document relating to industrial property rights is a document issued by the JPO, a document submitted by the applicant to the JPO, or a document submitted by a third party to the JPO. The document issued by the JPO is, for example, a notice of reasons for refusal and a certified copy of refusal. The documents submitted by the applicant to the JPO include, for example, applications, requests for examination of applications, written amendments, and written opinions. The document submitted to the Patent Office by a third party is, for example, a publication submitted for a publication. The character conversion table is a table in which a document code and character data are associated with each application. Further, the character data of the character conversion table is data of written contents regarding industrial property rights. The industrial property right information is information provided from the JPO at a predetermined cycle such as every two weeks.

  The data acquisition unit 102 acquires the industrial property right information of the application instructed from the input unit 101 from an external database or a storage medium such as a CD-ROM, and outputs the acquired industrial property right information to the association unit 103. .

  The association unit 103 extracts document data from the industrial property right information input from the data acquisition unit 102. Further, the associating unit 103 extracts, from the document data, the document code of the document submitted to the Patent Office from the applicant and the document containing the description of the claims and the character conversion table. Here, the document including the description of the scope of claims means, for example, the scope of claims after correction attached to a document of claims, filing of amendment of procedure, or an appeal for trial of correction. It is a written document etc. Further, the associating unit 103 selects character data by referring to the character conversion table using the extracted document code. In addition, the associating unit 103 extracts date data of the document submission date from the selected character data. Then, the associating unit 103 executes an associating process for associating the date data with the character data obtained by extracting the date data, and the character data and the date data after the associating process are analyzed by the analyzing unit 104 and the data synthesizing unit 105. Output to.

  The analysis unit 104 analyzes the master-slave relationship of claims using character data associated with date data of the newest date input from the association unit 103. For example, the analysis unit 104 determines that a claim without “claim” in the sentence is an independent claim, and claims that have “claim X” (where X is a natural number) in the sentence. It is determined that it is a dependent claim of X. Further, the analysis unit 104 compares the character data of each claim to calculate the matching degree of the documents. For example, the analysis unit 104 determines that claims having a matching degree of 80% or more are the same claim, and determines that claims having a matching degree of less than 80% are different claims. As a result, the analysis unit 104, for example, corrects each claim even if the number of each claim is moved up and the number of the claim is changed by deleting some of the claims by correction. It is possible to track the transition of the description. Then, the analysis unit 104 outputs analysis data that is analysis result data to the data synthesis unit 105.

  The data composition unit 105 performs a grouping process for grouping the character data input from the association unit 103 for each claim. In addition, the data composition unit 105 executes a rearrangement process in which the character data after the grouping process is rearranged for each claim in the date order of the date data input from the association unit 103. In addition, the data synthesis unit 105 synthesizes the character data for each claim after the rearrangement process and the analysis data input from the analysis unit 104 to generate synthesized data. The data synthesizing unit 105 stores the synthesized data in the storage unit 106 and outputs the synthesized data of claim 1 to the display data generating unit 107.

  The storage unit 106 stores the combined data input from the data combining unit 105.

  The display data generating unit 107 executes a data conversion process for converting the combined data input from the data combining unit 105 into display data. Further, the display data generation unit 107 outputs the display data to the display unit 108. Further, when an instruction signal for switching to display of a different claim is input from the input unit 101, the display data generation unit 107 reads the combined data of the specified claim stored in the storage unit 106. Then, the display data generation unit 107 executes a data conversion process for converting the read composite data into display data, and outputs the display data to the display unit 108.

  The display unit 108 performs a display process on the display data input from the display data generation unit 107 to display the analysis data and the character data described in the claims in comparison with each other. The character data described in is displayed in contrast. Here, the data conversion process and the display process are processes for displaying XML data using a browser, for example.

  Next, the operation of the industrial property right information display device 100 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is a sequence diagram showing the operation of the industrial property right information display device 100.

  First, the input unit 101 receives an instruction from the outside that displays the transition of the description of the claims of a specific application, and sends an instruction signal for acquiring industrial property information of the instructed application to the data acquisition unit 102. Output (step ST201).

  Next, the data acquisition unit 102 acquires industrial property right information (step ST202).

  Next, the data acquisition unit 102 outputs the acquired industrial property right information to the association unit 103 (step ST203).

  Next, the associating unit 103 extracts document data from the industrial property right information, a document document code submitted from the applicant to the Patent Office and containing a description of the claims, and a character conversion table. Are extracted from the written data. Further, the associating unit 103 selects character data by referring to the character conversion table using the extracted document code. In addition, the associating unit 103 extracts date data of the document submission date from the selected character data. Then, the associating unit 103 executes an associating process for associating the date data with the character data obtained by extracting the date data, and outputs the character data and the date data after the associating process to the data synthesizing unit 105. (Step ST204), it outputs to the analysis part 104 (step ST205).

  Next, the analysis unit 104 analyzes the master-slave relationship in the claims using character data associated with date data of the newest date. Then, analysis unit 104 outputs the analysis data to data synthesis unit 105 (step ST206).

  Next, the data composition unit 105 executes a grouping process for grouping character data for each claim. Further, the data synthesis unit 105 executes a rearrangement process for rearranging the character data after the grouping process in the order of the date of the date data for each claim. In addition, the data synthesis unit 105 synthesizes character data and analysis data for each claim after the rearrangement process to generate synthesized data. Then, the data synthesis unit 105 outputs the synthesized data of claim 1 to the display data generation unit 107 (step ST207) and stores the synthesized data in the storage unit 106 (step ST208).

  Next, the display data generation unit 107 executes a data conversion process for converting the composite data into display data, and outputs the display data to the display unit 108 (step ST209).

  Next, the display unit 108 compares and displays the analysis data and the character data described in the claims, and also displays the character data described in the claims.

  In addition, when the input unit 101 instructs the display data generation unit 107 to switch the display of character data of different claims (step ST210), the display data generation unit 107 reads the combined data of the specified claims from the storage unit 106 ( Step ST211 and step ST212).

  Next, the display data generation unit 107 executes a data conversion process for converting the composite data into display data, and outputs the display data to the display unit 108 (step ST213).

  Next, the display unit 108 compares and displays the analysis data and the character data described in the claims, and also displays the character data described in the claims.

  Next, the operation of the industrial property information display apparatus 100 will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a part of the industrial property right information in the XML data format. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a character conversion table. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the composite data. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a display screen of the display unit 108 when the analysis data and the character data described in the claims are displayed in comparison.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the associating unit 103 extracts the document code # 352 of the procedure correction document included in the industrial property right information # 301, and refers to the character conversion table using the extracted document code # 352. .

  As shown in FIG. 4, the associating unit 103 selects character data # 401 corresponding to the document code # 352.

  Further, the data synthesis unit 105 generates synthesized data shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 5, the composite data is data in which analysis data # 501, claim number # 502, and character data # 503 described in the claims are associated with each other. In the case of FIG. 5, the composite data is described in a state of being displayed on the display unit 108 for convenience of explanation, but actually, the composite data has a predetermined format for displaying the display unit 108 as shown in FIG. 5. It is data.

  Then, as shown in FIG. 6, the display unit 108 displays the analysis data # 501 in the display area # 601, and displays the character data # 505 described in the item number # 504 of claim 1 in the display area # 602. . That is, the display unit 108 compares and displays the analysis data and the character data described in the claims, and also displays the character data described in the claims. The character data described in the claims displayed in the display area # 602 indicates the description of claim 1 that has been changed from the application through the examination process. At this time, the display unit 108 displays the images arranged in order of date of submission in order from the top. In addition, the display unit 108 may display the changed description portion so that it can be easily visually identified by highlighting or coloring in red. Further, in the analysis data # 501 displayed in the display area # 601, each numerical value indicates a claim number, and among the branched branches, the longest branches # 610, # 611, # 612 are shown. Claims 1, 4 and 6 corresponding to the numerical values described at the front end indicate that they are independent claims. Further, claims 2 and 3 corresponding to the numerical values described at the tip of branch # 613 branched from claim 1 indicate that they are dependent claims of claim 1. Further, claim 5 corresponding to the numerical value described at the tip of branch # 614 branched from claim 4 indicates that it is a dependent claim of claim 4.

  In FIG. 6, for example, when the character data described in claim 2 is to be displayed, “2” of the analysis data displayed in the display area # 601 is selected. As a result, the display data generation unit 107 reads the composite data of claim 2 stored in the storage unit 106 from the storage unit 106 to generate display data, and the display unit 108 charges the analysis data # 501. Character data # 507 of item number # 506 of item 2 is displayed in comparison. The third and subsequent claims can be displayed in the same manner.

  Thus, according to the present embodiment, the transition of the description of the claims can be easily confirmed by comparing and displaying the character data described in the claims of each submission date.

(Embodiment 2)
FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an industrial property right information display device 700 according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention.

  The industrial property right information display device 700 shown in FIG. 7 adds a difference detection unit 701 to the industrial property right information display device 100 according to the first embodiment shown in FIG. In FIG. 7, parts having the same configuration as in FIG.

  The association unit 103 extracts document data from the industrial property right information input from the data acquisition unit 102. Further, the associating unit 103 extracts, from the document data, the document code of the document submitted to the Patent Office from the applicant and the document containing the description of the claims and the character conversion table. Further, the associating unit 103 selects character data by referring to the character conversion table using the extracted document code. In addition, the associating unit 103 extracts date data of the document submission date from the selected character data. Then, the associating unit 103 executes an associating process for associating the date data with the character data from which the date data is extracted, and the character data and the date data after the associating process are analyzed by the analyzing unit 104 and the difference detecting unit 701. Output to.

  The difference detection unit 701 detects a written difference between character data associated with different date data input from the association unit 103. Further, the difference detection unit 701 adds a flag to the character data indicating the description of the detected difference. Then, the difference detection unit 701 executes an associating process for associating the character data with the flag and the date data, and outputs the character data and the date data after the associating process to the data synthesizing unit 105.

  The data composition unit 105 executes a grouping process for grouping the character data input from the difference detection unit 701 for each claim. In addition, the data composition unit 105 executes a rearrangement process in which the character data after the grouping process is rearranged for each claim in the date order of the date data input from the difference detection unit 701. In addition, the data synthesis unit 105 synthesizes the character data for each claim after the rearrangement process and the analysis data input from the analysis unit 104 to generate synthesized data. The data synthesizing unit 105 stores the synthesized data in the storage unit 106 and outputs the synthesized data of claim 1 to the display data generating unit 107.

  The operation of the industrial property right information display device 700 is performed by detecting a difference by the difference detection unit 701, adding a flag to the character data indicating the description of the detected difference, and adding the flag-added character data and other characters. Since the data is the same as that shown in FIG. 2 except that the data is displayed in a different display form, a description thereof will be omitted.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a display screen of the display unit 108 when the character data described in the claims is displayed in comparison.

  Fig. 8 (a) shows that the amendment (1) is selected and the amendment date is displayed (not shown), and the amendment (2) is selected and the filing date is × It is a figure which shows the display screen of the display part 108 at the time of displaying the procedure correction document # 801 of year x month x day. In this case, the difference detection unit 701 detects a difference # 802 between the description of the scope of the amendment of procedure (1) and the description of the area of amendment of procedure (2). The display unit 108 displays the procedure correction document # 801 in a display form in which the description of the difference # 802 in the procedure correction document # 801 is different from the other description. For example, the display unit 108 highlights the description of the difference # 802.

  Similarly, in FIG. 8B, after selecting the amendment (1) and displaying the amendment on the date of submission of year, year, month, day (not shown), select amendment (3) and submit it. It is a figure which shows the display screen of the display part 108 at the time of displaying procedural amendment letter # 803 of the day of △ year △ month △. In this case, the difference detection unit 701 detects the differences # 802 and # 804 between the description of the scope of the amendment (1) and the description of the scope of the amendment (3). Further, the display unit 108 displays the procedure correction document # 803 in a display form in which the descriptions of the differences # 802 and # 804 in the procedure correction document # 803 are different from other descriptions. For example, the display unit 108 highlights the description of the differences # 802 and # 804. Note that the difference # 802 in FIG. 8B is the same as the difference # 802 in FIG.

  Normally, the amendments to the most recent filing date are underlined in the description of the claims after amendment, so the change can be grasped, but the procedure after multiple amendments In the amendment (in the case of FIG. 8 (b)), the final amendment (in FIG. 8) to the statement of the scope of claims in the first amendment (procedure amendment (1) in FIG. 8). It is difficult to grasp the amended part described in the scope of claims in the amendment (3) (Procedure Amendment). However, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to easily identify the transition described in the claims even after a plurality of corrections.

  FIG. 9 is a diagram showing another display screen of the display unit 108 when the character data described in the claims is displayed in comparison with the present embodiment.

  In FIG. 9, the display unit 108 uses the date before the application publication date and the date closest to the application publication date among the date data extracted by the association unit 103 as a reference specific date, and the date of the specific date Character data associated with the data is displayed in display area # 901. That is, the display unit 108 displays the description of the scope of claims at the time of publication of the application in the display area # 901. The display unit 108 displays the transition described in the claims in the display area # 902.

  Further, at this time, the difference detection unit 701 performs the processing between the character data # 903 described in the claims displayed in the display area # 901 and the character data # 904 described in the claims displayed in the display area # 902. Difference # 910 is detected. In addition, the difference detection unit 701 calculates the difference # 911 between the character data # 903 described in the claims displayed in the display area # 901 and the character data # 905 described in the claims displayed in the display area # 902. Is detected. In addition, the difference detection unit 701 includes a difference # 912 between the character data # 903 described in the claims displayed in the display area # 901 and the character data # 906 described in the claims displayed in the display area # 902. Is detected.

  The display unit 108 displays the character data # 904 in a display form in which the description of the difference # 910 in the character data # 904 is different from the other description. The display unit 108 displays the character data # 905 in a display form in which the description of the difference # 911 in the character data # 905 is different from other descriptions. The display unit 108 displays the character data # 906 in a display form in which the description of the difference # 912 in the character data # 906 is different from other descriptions. Further, the display unit 108 displays the description of the differences # 910, # 911, and # 912 in a shaded manner, and displays the other descriptions in a normal display without shading, so that the character data # described in each claim is displayed. In 904, # 905, and # 906, the character data # 904, # 905, and # 906 can be displayed in different display forms from the descriptions of the differences # 910, # 911, and # 912. Therefore, in the case of FIG. 9, the transition of the description of the claims after the publication of the application can be clearly displayed in comparison with the description of the claims at the time of publication of the application.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, in addition to the effect of the first embodiment, the description of the difference and the other description are displayed in different display forms, so that the correction is performed a plurality of times. The transition of the claims can be clearly displayed.

(Embodiment 3)
FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a display screen when the character data described in the claims according to the third embodiment of the present invention is displayed in comparison with the display unit. In the present embodiment, the industrial property right information display device has the same configuration as that in FIG. 1, and will be described using the reference numerals in FIG.

  The association unit 103 extracts document data from the industrial property right information input from the data acquisition unit 102. In addition, the associating unit 103 obtains the document code of the document submitted from the applicant to the JPO and the description of the claims, the document code of the opinion document, and the character conversion table from the document data. Extract. Further, the associating unit 103 selects character data by referring to the character conversion table using the extracted document code. In addition, the associating unit 103 extracts date data of the document submission date from the selected character data. Further, the associating unit 103 executes associating processing for associating date data with character data obtained by extracting the date data. At this time, when the date of the date data of the document including the description of the claim and the date of the date data of the opinion document match, the associating unit 103 describes the claim of the matching date. Correspondence processing for associating the text data of the included document with the text data of the opinion is executed. Then, the associating unit 103 outputs the character data and date data after the associating process to the analyzing unit 104 and the data synthesizing unit 105.

  The other configuration of the industrial property right information display device is the same as that of the first embodiment, and a description thereof will be omitted.

  As a result of the above processing, as shown in FIG. 10, the display unit 108 displays the character data # 1010, # 1011 and # 1012 described in the claims in the display area # 1001, and the opinion document in the display area # 1002. Character data # 1013, # 1014, and # 1015 are displayed. At this time, the character data # 1013 described in the opinion document describes an opinion on the character data # 1010 described in the claims in the procedure amendment submitted on the same submission date. Further, the character data # 1014 described in the opinion document describes an opinion on the character data # 1011 described in the claims in the procedure amendment submitted on the same submission date. Further, the character data # 1015 described in the opinion document describes an opinion on the character data # 1012 described in the claims in the procedure amendment submitted on the same submission date. Further, since it is difficult for the display unit 108 to display all of the descriptions of a plurality of opinion documents on one screen at a time, the character data # 1013, # 1014, and # 1015 described in each opinion document are illustrated. You can see while scrolling with the scroll key.

  FIG. 11 is a diagram showing another example of the display screen of the display unit when the character data described in the claims according to the present embodiment is displayed in comparison. In FIG. 11, parts that are the same as those shown in FIG.

  In FIG. 11, character data # 1013, # 1014, and # 1015 (not shown in FIG. 11) described in the opinion document displayed in display area # 1002 are continuously viewed by scrolling with a scroll key (not shown). be able to.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, in addition to the effects of the first embodiment, the description of the claims and the opinion document are displayed so as to be comparable with each other. , And can be viewed while comparing with the opinion on the amendment.

  In this embodiment, when the date of submission of the procedure amendment and the date of submission of the opinion are the same, the character data described in the claims of the procedure amendment and the character data described in the opinion However, the present invention is not limited to this. Character data or procedure amendment written in the written opinion submitted within a predetermined period such as 60 days from the filing date of the hand-side amendment or the filing date of the written opinion The character data described in the claims may be associated with each other.

(Embodiment 4)
FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an industrial property right information display system 1200 according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention.

  The industrial property right information display system 1200 mainly includes a network 1205, an administrator terminal 1206, user terminals 1207-1 to 1207-n, and an industrial property right information display device 1250.

  The industrial property right information display device 1250 mainly includes an industrial property right information storage unit 1201, a data server 1202, an application server 1203, and a web server 1204.

  The industrial property right information storage unit 1201 stores industrial property right information such as organized standardized data. The industrial property right information stored in the industrial property right information storage unit 1201 is information that is periodically updated every two weeks or the like.

  The data server 1202 acquires and stores the industrial property right information stored in the industrial property right information storage unit 1201 at a predetermined cycle.

  The application server 1203 acquires the industrial property right information stored in the data server 1202 when receiving a request for displaying the transition described in the claims of a specific application from the web server 1204. Then, the application server 1203 outputs the combined data obtained by combining the character data described in the claims and the analysis data to the web server 1204 using the acquired industrial property right information. The detailed configuration of the application server 1203 will be described later.

  The web server 1204 receives a request for displaying the transition of the description of the claims of a specific application or a request for switching the display from the administrator terminal 1206 or the user terminals 1207-1 to 1207-n via the network 1205. When the web server 1204 receives the request, the web server 1204 acquires composite data for displaying the transition described in the claims from the application server 1203. The web server 1204 generates display data by executing a data conversion process for converting the acquired composite data into display data for display on a web page. The web server 1204 performs display processing on the generated display data to generate web page data, and the generated web page data is transmitted to the administrator terminal 1206 or the user terminals 1207-1 to 1207- via the network 1205. n. The detailed configuration of the web server 1204 will be described later.

  The network 1205 is a public network such as the Internet, for example, and connects the industrial property right information display device 1250 to the administrator terminal 1206 and the user terminals 1207-1 to 1207-n.

  The administrator terminal 1206 makes a request for display of changes described in the scope of claims of a specific application or a request for switching display. In addition, the administrator terminal 1206 displays the transition of the description of the claims on the web page in comparison with the web page data provided from the industrial property right information display device 1250.

  The user terminals 1207-1 to 1207-n make a request for display of transition described in the claims of a specific application or a request for switching display. In addition, the user terminals 1207-1 to 1207-n display the transition of the claims in comparison with the web page data provided from the industrial property right information display device 1250 on the web page.

  Next, a detailed configuration of the application server 1203 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 13 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the application server 1203.

  The interface unit 1301 outputs the request for displaying the transition described in the claims of the specific application received from the web server 1204 to the associating unit 1302. Further, the interface unit 1301 acquires the industrial property right information of the application instructed from the associating unit 1302 from the data server 1202, and outputs the acquired industrial property right information to the associating unit 1302. The interface unit 1301 outputs the combined data input from the data combining unit 1305 to the web server 1204.

  The association unit 1302 receives the industrial property right information of the requested application when receiving a request for displaying the transition of the description of the claims of the specific application from the web server 1204 via the interface unit 1301. Obtained from the data server 1202 via the unit 1301. Further, the associating unit 1302 extracts document data from the acquired industrial property right information. In addition, the associating unit 1302 extracts the document code of the document submitted to the Patent Office from the applicant and the description of the claims and the character conversion table from the document data. In addition, the association unit 1302 selects character data by referring to the character conversion table using the extracted document code. In addition, the associating unit 1302 extracts date data of the document submission date from the selected character data. Then, the associating unit 1302 executes an associating process for associating the date data with the character data obtained by extracting the date data, and the character data and the date data after the associating process are analyzed 1303 and the data synthesizing unit 1305. Output to.

  The analysis unit 1303 analyzes the master-slave relationship of claims using character data associated with the date data of the newest date input from the association unit 1302. Then, the analysis unit 1303 outputs analysis data, which is analysis result data, to the data synthesis unit 1305. Note that the processing in the analysis unit 1303 is the same as that of the analysis unit 104 in the first embodiment, and thus detailed description thereof is omitted.

  The data composition unit 1305 performs a grouping process for grouping the character data input from the association unit 1302 for each claim. In addition, the data composition unit 1305 executes a rearrangement process in which the character data after the grouping process is rearranged for each claim in the date order of the date data input from the association unit 1302. Further, the data synthesis unit 1305 synthesizes the character data for each claim after the rearrangement process and the analysis data input from the analysis unit 1303 to generate synthesized data. Then, the data synthesis unit 1305 outputs the synthesized data to the interface unit 1301.

  Next, a detailed configuration of the web server 1204 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 14 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the web server 1204.

  The interface unit 1401 obtains, from the administrator terminal 1206 or the user terminals 1207-1 to 1207-n via the network 1205, a request for displaying the transition described in the claims of a specific application or a request for switching the display. The acquired various requests are output to the processing content determination unit 1403. Further, the interface unit 1401 outputs the request input from the processing content determination unit 1403 to the application server 1203. The interface unit 1401 outputs the composite data input from the application server 1203 to the data conversion unit 1402. The interface unit 1401 transmits the web page data input from the web page display unit 1405 to the administrator terminal 1206 or the user terminals 1207-1 to 1207-n via the network 1205.

  The data conversion unit 1402 generates display data by executing a data conversion process for converting the composite data input from the interface unit 1401 into display data that can be displayed on a web page. Further, the data conversion unit 1402 stores the generated display data in the display data storage unit 1404. In addition, the data conversion unit 1402 stores the display data in the display data storage unit 1404 and then notifies the processing content determination unit 1403 that the processing is completed.

  The processing content determination unit 1403 determines the contents of various requests input from the interface unit 1401. In addition, when the processing content determination unit 1403 receives a request for displaying the transition described in the claims of a specific application from the interface unit 1401, the display data storage unit 1404 displays the display data of the requested application. It is determined whether or not it is stored. When the display data of the requested application is not stored in the display data storage unit 1404, the processing content determination unit 1403 transfers the received request to the application server 1203 via the interface unit 1401. When the processing content determination unit 1403 receives a notification from the data conversion unit 1402 that the processing for storing the display data in the display data storage unit 1404 has been completed, the web page display unit 1405 from the display data storage unit 1404. Display data for output.

  On the other hand, if the display data of the requested application is already stored in the display data storage unit 1404, the processing content determination unit 1403 stores the requested application stored in the display data storage unit 1404. The display data of the application is output from the display data storage unit 1404.

  The display data storage unit 1404 stores the display data input from the data conversion unit 1402. Then, the display data storage unit 1404 outputs the stored display data to the web page display unit 1405 according to the output instruction of the processing content determination unit 1403.

  The web page display unit 1405 executes display processing for displaying the display data input from the display data storage unit 1404 on the web page. Then, the web page display unit 1405 outputs, for example, web page data in the HTML data format generated by executing the display process to the interface unit 1401.

  Next, the operation of the industrial property right information display system 1200 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 15 is a sequence diagram illustrating the operation of the industrial property right information display system 1200.

  First, the industrial property right information storage unit 1201 acquires and stores industrial property right information at a predetermined cycle (step ST1501).

  Next, the data server 1202 periodically acquires and stores industrial property right information from the industrial property right information storage unit 1201 (step ST1502).

  Next, the web server 1204 accepts a request for displaying a transition described in the claims of a specific application from the administrator terminal 1206 or the user terminals 1207-1 to 1207-n (step ST1503).

  Next, the web server 1204 determines whether or not display data for the requested application is stored, and if the display data for the requested application is not stored, the web server 1204 receives the received request as an application server. The data is transferred to 1203 (step ST1504).

  Next, the application server 1203 acquires the industrial property right information of the requested application from the data server 1202 (step ST1505, step ST1506).

  Next, the application server 1203 extracts document data from the acquired industrial property right information. Further, the application server 1203 extracts the document code and the character conversion table of the document submitted to the Patent Office from the applicant and including the description of the claims from the document data.

  Also, the application server 1203 selects character data by referring to the character conversion table using the extracted document code. Further, the application server 1203 extracts date data of the document submission date from the selected character data.

  Further, the application server 1203 executes association processing for associating date data with character data obtained by extracting the date data.

  The application server 1203 executes a grouping process for grouping character data for each claim.

  Further, the application server 1203 executes a rearrangement process for rearranging the character data after the grouping process for each claim in the date order of the associated date data.

  Further, the application server 1203 analyzes the master-slave relationship in the claims using character data associated with date data of the newest date.

  Then, application server 1203 outputs composite data obtained by combining analysis data and character data to web server 1204 (step ST1507).

  Next, the web server 1204 executes a data conversion process for converting the acquired composite data into display data.

  Further, the web server 1204 converts the display data into a data format to be displayed on the web page, and displays the display data of the application requested to be displayed as the web page data, the administrator terminal 1206 or the user terminals 1207-1 to 1207. -N is transmitted (step ST1508).

  In addition, the administrator terminal 1206 or the user terminals 1207-1 to 1207-n requests the web server 1204 to switch the display of the document data displayed in contrast on the web page (step ST 1509).

  Next, the web server 1204 determines whether or not the display data of the requested application is stored, and if the display data of the requested application is stored, the stored display data is stored. Is transmitted as web page data to the administrator terminal 1206 or the user terminals 1207-1 to 1207-n (step ST 1510).

  In addition, since the operation | movement of another industrial property right information display system is the same as FIGS. 3-6, the description is abbreviate | omitted.

  Thus, according to the present embodiment, the transition of the description of the claims can be easily confirmed by comparing and displaying the character data described in the claims of each submission date.

(Embodiment 5)
FIG. 16 is a block diagram showing a configuration of application server 1600 according to Embodiment 5 of the present invention.

  Also, the application server 1600 illustrated in FIG. 16 adds a difference detection unit 1601 to the application server 1203 according to the fourth embodiment illustrated in FIG. In FIG. 16, parts having the same configuration as in FIG. The industrial property right information display system in the present embodiment has the same configuration as that of FIG. 12 except that the application server 1600 is applied instead of the application server 1203 in FIG.

  The association unit 1302 receives the industrial property right information of the requested application when receiving a request for displaying the transition of the description of the claims of the specific application from the web server 1204 via the interface unit 1301. Obtained from the data server 1202 via the unit 1301. Further, the associating unit 1302 extracts document data from the acquired industrial property right information. In addition, the associating unit 1302 extracts the document code of the document submitted to the Patent Office from the applicant and the description of the claims and the character conversion table from the document data. In addition, the association unit 1302 selects character data by referring to the character conversion table using the extracted document code. In addition, the associating unit 1302 extracts date data of the document submission date from the selected character data. Then, the associating unit 1302 executes an associating process for associating the date data with the character data extracted from the date data, and the character data and the date data after the associating process are analyzed by the analyzing unit 1303 and the difference detecting unit 1601. Output to.

  The difference detection unit 1601 detects a difference in description between character data associated with different date data input from the association unit 1302. In addition, the difference detection unit 1601 gives a flag to the description of the detected difference of the character data. Then, the difference detection unit 1601 executes an association process for associating the character data with the flag and the date data, and outputs the character data and the date data after the association process to the data composition unit 1305.

  The data composition unit 1305 executes a grouping process for grouping the character data input from the difference detection unit 1601 for each claim. Further, the data composition unit 1305 executes a rearrangement process in which the character data after the grouping process is rearranged for each claim in the date order of the date data input from the difference detection unit 1601. Further, the data synthesis unit 1305 synthesizes the character data for each claim after the rearrangement process and the analysis data input from the analysis unit 1303 to generate synthesized data. Then, the data synthesis unit 1305 outputs the synthesized data to the interface unit 1301.

  The configuration of the web server in this embodiment is the same as that shown in FIG. In addition, the operation of the industrial property right information display system according to the present embodiment is as follows. The application server 1600 detects a difference, adds a flag to the description of the detected difference, and the web server 1204 adds the flag. The description is omitted because it is the same as that shown in FIG. 15 except that the character data is displayed in a different display form from the other descriptions. The operation of the other industrial property information display system is the same as that shown in FIGS.

(Embodiment 6)
In the present embodiment, the configuration of the industrial property right information display system is the same as that shown in FIG. 12, the configuration of the application server is the same as that shown in FIG. 13, and the configuration of the web server is the same as that shown in FIG. Description will be made using reference numerals in FIGS.

  The associating unit 1302 extracts document data from the industrial property right information input from the interface unit 1301. In addition, the associating unit 1302 obtains a written document code including a written statement submitted from the applicant to the JPO and the claims, a written document code of the opinion document, and a character conversion table from the written data. Extract. In addition, the association unit 1302 selects character data by referring to the character conversion table using the extracted document code. In addition, the associating unit 1302 extracts date data of the document submission date from the selected character data. Further, the associating unit 1302 executes an associating process for associating date data with character data obtained by extracting the date data. At this time, when the date of the date data of the document including the description of the claim matches the date of the date data of the opinion, the associating unit 1302 describes the claim of the matching date. Correspondence processing for associating the text data of the included document with the text data of the opinion is executed. Then, the associating unit 1302 outputs the character data and date data after the associating process to the analyzing unit 1303 and the data synthesizing unit 1305.

  Note that the display method in the display unit 108 is the same as that in FIG. 10 or FIG.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, in addition to the effects of the third embodiment, the description of the claims and the opinion document are displayed so as to be comparable to each other, thereby correcting the correction points in the description of the claims. , And can be viewed while comparing with the opinion on the amendment.

  In this embodiment, when the date of submission of the procedure amendment and the date of submission of the opinion are the same, the character data described in the claims of the procedure amendment and the character data described in the opinion However, the present invention is not limited to this. Character data or procedure amendment written in the written opinion submitted within a predetermined period such as 60 days from the filing date of the hand-side amendment or the filing date of the written opinion The character data described in the claims may be associated with each other.

  In the first to sixth embodiments, the industrial property right information is acquired by XML. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the industrial property right information can be acquired by data in any format other than XML. .

  The industrial property right information display device and the industrial property right information display method according to the present invention are particularly suitable for displaying changes described in claims so as to be comparable.

The block diagram which shows the structure of the industrial property right information display apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. The sequence diagram which shows operation | movement of the industrial property-right information display apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. The figure which shows the industrial property right information of the XML data format which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. The figure which shows the character conversion table which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. The figure which shows the synthetic | combination data based on Embodiment 1 of this invention The figure which shows the display screen of a display part at the time of contrast-displaying the analysis data which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention, and the character data of description of a claim The block diagram which shows the structure of the industrial property right information display apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 2 of this invention. The figure which shows the display screen of a display part at the time of contrast-displaying the character data as described in the claim based on Embodiment 2 of this invention The figure which shows the other display screen of the display part at the time of contrasting and displaying the character data as described in the claim concerning Embodiment 2 of this invention The figure which shows the display screen at the time of displaying the character data as described in the claim which concerns on Embodiment 3 of this invention on a display part by contrast The figure which shows the other example of the display screen of the display part at the time of contrastly displaying the character data of the description of the claim which concerns on Embodiment 3 of this invention The block diagram which shows the industrial property right information display system structure which concerns on Embodiment 4 of this invention. The block diagram which shows the structure of the application server which concerns on Embodiment 4 of this invention. The block diagram which shows the structure of the web server which concerns on Embodiment 4 of this invention. The sequence diagram which shows operation | movement of the industrial property right information display system which concerns on Embodiment 4 of this invention. The block diagram which shows the structure of the application server which concerns on Embodiment 5 of this invention.

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100, 700, 1250 Industrial property right information display device 101 Input unit 102 Data acquisition unit 103 Association unit 104 Analysis unit 105 Data synthesis unit 106 Storage unit 107 Display data generation unit 108 Display unit

Claims (5)

An acquisition means for acquiring document data of documents submitted to the JPO;
Extraction means for extracting the character data described in the claims from the document data on different submission dates;
Association means for associating the extracted character data with date data of the submission date;
Display means for comparing and displaying each of the extracted character data on the same screen based on the associated date data;
Industrial property right information display device comprising: Detecting means for detecting the difference between the character data respectively associated with the date data of different dates,
The display means displays the character data in a display form different from the description of the difference before and after the switching and another description when the character data is switched and displayed for each submission date. The industrial property right information display device according to 1. Detecting means for detecting the difference between the character data associated with the date data of a specific date and the character data associated with the date data of a date other than the specific date; ,
The industrial property right information display device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays the character data in a different display form from the description of the detected difference and the other description. The extraction means extracts character data described in the opinion from the document data,
The association means associates the character data described in the opinion and date data of the submission date of the opinion,
The industrial property right information according to claim 1, wherein the display means displays the character data described in the opinion document and the character data described in the claim in a contrasting manner based on the date data of the opinion document associated therewith. Display device. An industrial property information display method for a display device that displays document data of a document submitted to the JPO,
Obtaining the written data;
Extracting each of the character data described in the claims from the document data on different submission dates;
Associating the extracted character data with the date data of the submission date,
A step of comparing and displaying each of the extracted character data on the same screen based on the associated date data;
An industrial property right information display method comprising:

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