JPH03204072A - Application request acceptance system by electronic medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce troubles due to the storage of a sheet and the update of a format, etc., by providing an electronic application request sheet and an electronic description original sheet from a patent department to all the invention origins as the prerequisite of application request acceptance by an electronic medium. CONSTITUTION:When an application request sheet, a description, a drawing, and other relational document are offered to the patent department with an FD and another arbitrary request mode, the patent department receives them, and returns a reception report consisting of a proposer, an acceptance date, and an acceptance number, etc., to the proposer. Meanwhile, a proposal is evaluated with the clerk of the patent department, and the permission of the application, etc., is decided. Following that, the original of description of invention/proposal that is the target of application is inputted to a computer 10. Next, processing is transferred from an administrative clerk to the clerk of patent. Namely, a clerk in charge of the preparation of the description takes out a description original, etc., inputted to the computer 10 to prepare the description to be applied to the patent office based on the description original, etc., of an inventor from its own terminal, and prepares the description in electronic fashion by utilizing a document editing function.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a system for accepting application requests for patents and the like in companies, and particularly relates to an efficient application request accepting system compatible with the paperless system of the Japan Patent Office.

[Prior art] Traditionally, companies have been involved in the process of receiving invention proposals, processing and processing them.
As shown in Figure 3A, in companies with a certain number of patents or more, the work up to the filing of an application is carried out by the invention department, business patent department,
It can be seen as the flow of goods and information between the patent department of the head office and those at the patent office.

The procedures from proposing an invention to filing an application with the patent office include, for example:
As shown in FIG. 3B.

First, an invention proposal, that is, an application request is made by documents such as an application request form and draft specification from the invention department (S31).
Proposals will be accepted at the patent department of the office you belong to (
S32). For the accepted case, the invention is evaluated (S33) and the known examples are investigated (S34), and a specification etc. is prepared (S35). Thereafter, the specification etc. are approved by the person in charge (S36), an application form is created (S37), and the application form, specification form, other necessary document types and drawings are traced (S38a).

538b), filed with the Japan Patent Office via the patent department of the head office (
S39).

The documents required for a patent application request from an inventor include a signed application request form/deed of assignment with the necessary information filled out, and
This includes draft specifications and draft drawings, which are submitted to the patent department in paper form. For that purpose, in advance,
A sheet of paper in a certain format with predetermined information printed on it is prepared and distributed to all inventors.

The application request form can be roughly divided into a field for writing in the inventor, a field for writing in the requesting superior, and a field for writing in the patent department, and each field has blank spaces in which to write various items. In addition, there is also a space for the seals of those involved.

In addition, the specification manuscript paper has 22 characters and 20 lines per page with "1. Title of the invention", "2. Scope of claims", "
3. Items to be described are preprinted, such as ``Detailed Description of the Invention'', and the column for the detailed description of the invention is further subdivided into sections such as ``Industrial Application Field'' and ``Prior Art''. Each column and section has a corresponding blank space. "Example"
Separate sheets are prepared for columns with a large number of entries, such as . Notes to the author are appended to each column and section in lowercase letters. In addition, forms for filling in the outline of the invention and related application information are also distributed.

The application request form and specification manuscript sheet are disclosed in Akio Takahashi, Hitachi's Patent Management and Invention Association, published October 4, 1980, pp. 94-94.

[Problem to be solved by the invention] In the paper application request form in the above-mentioned prior art, there are many places where the inventor, the inventor, and the superior should fill in the information, and it is difficult to fill in all the blanks. This was not always easy, and there was a risk of omissions. In addition, if the format of the Meihi manuscript was changed or the notes to authors were changed, all the sheets to be distributed to each inventor had to be reprinted.

Furthermore, with the spread of word processors and other document editing devices in recent years, some inventors often create specification manuscripts electronically from the beginning using word processing; Since the company is not prepared to accept application requests, the actual situation is that patents are submitted to the patent department in the form of printed paper.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. An application request reception system using electronic media, which provides each inventor with an application request form and specification manuscript paper in a fixed format as a prerequisite for accepting applications using electronic media. An application request reception system using electronic media, which is characterized by: 2. An application request reception system using a flexible disk (FD), which accepts at least an FD on which a draft specification is recorded and a stamped application request form, and attaches a label with the same reception identification code to each of the application requests. An application request reception system using an FD, which is characterized in that the application request is pasted on a document and an FD for subsequent management. 3. An electronic application request form that is uniformly provided by the patent department to the inventor, using a document creation device that has an editing mode that allows certain areas of the document to be designated as areas that cannot be edited by input. A computerized application request form characterized in that the fields to be filled in by the patent department and the fields to be filled in by the patent department are each left blank, and areas other than the blank fields to be filled in by the application requester are designated as areas where input and editing are prohibited. . 4. The electronic application request form according to claim 3, wherein the column for writing in the inventor is provided at the end of the page of the request form. 5. The computerized application request form according to claim 3, wherein for an entry field with a character limit, the input/edit prohibited area is set to provide blank fields for the number of characters. 6. Electronic specification manuscript paper uniformly provided by the patent department to inventors, using a document creation device that has a mode that allows you to designate some areas of the document as input-editable areas, and enter the item names. 1. An electronic specification manuscript paper, characterized in that it is prepared by writing notes to the specification manuscript creator on manuscript preparation, and specifying the writing area as an input/editable area.