TW594507B - System and methods for analyzing and assessing patents - Google Patents

Abstract

This invention provides a system and methods for analyzing and assessing patents. There are several modules under this analysis system: a defense analysis module for analyzing the invalidity of the allegedly infringed patent, an offense analysis module for analyzing the possibility of each of our patents is infringed by the allegedly infringing product, and a patent portfolio analysis module for analyzing and select the excellent quality of patents from a portfolio.

Description

594507

In the process of patent analysis of inventions, traditionally the process of analysis by manual method is effective for-patents: analysis of infringement between objects and the strength of patents f, -L t: See Table 5 for details, but also cannot be automated. Second, it cannot be automated, so that it can be done manually; = ίπ'Η consumes a lot of money and time costs, ^ in the offensive and defensive war of patent rights, misjudge the situation, It ’s not a good opportunity to miss the opportunity. Due to the advancement of computer technology, it is possible to quantify and process the part involving human processing by the computer. However, in the process of patent affairs automation, objective evidence and indicators are used instead. The original artificial judgment is a necessary design direction; the present invention thinks in this direction, and then based on the retrieval technology, and after repeated implementation amendments and adjustments, it develops a set of patent analysis and evaluation processes that can be processed automatically. . Brief Description of the Invention The main object of the present invention is to provide a patent analysis and evaluation system,

594507 Profit and defense analysis: This profit and effectiveness can also be divided. To the above purpose, it is often used for the analysis of the effectiveness of the prevention, processing, and judgment. Some of the reasons for the defense analysis are to respond to the prior technology (p. Execute its patents to screen for validity). 5. Description of the invention. (2) The systems used to process the special processes can be specialized quality analysts. In order to reach the war, most of the patents are automated. It is more important to judge the auxiliary users when it is' we need the other party ’s patent to be effective, so it is not lethal, and it is even more important. The patent attack analysis system depends on the analysis method, and the special strategy of this invention and the attack on patent infringement are combined into one. It is the policy of the other party that is the most fundamental, and the most fundamental is the right of arts. In this way, it is sufficient to resist the use of its functions separately from the analysis and patent portfolio analysis. Its utilitarian infringement analysis methods and patents are targeted at companies' patent attack and defense strategies and patent portfolios. Analyze, analyze patent quality, and analyze and evaluate the system of Gali, in order to reach the allegation that we infringe other patents, and the direct way should be the guidance of the proof. The patents should be the prior technology that can reduce patents to our opponent's patents In terms of patent attack analysis, when we want to accuse the other party of infringing our patent right, we should first target the other party's product. Infringement analysis, further dialysis its technology base through the dismantling of the infringing goods, and then compared with our patent, whether the sentence f reached the point of infringement. In the aspect of patent portfolio analysis, we observe the performance of a group of patents in various technical indicators, and use the pre-set conditions to select the best patents to mark the core patents. Detailed description of the invention

V. Description of the invention (3) & In the field of patent analysis, pass the analysis of the silk, divide and go to # 中 传, and first process the patents by manual method. The analysis is often handled from a self-subjective point of view. , Please do not ignore objectively enjoy difficult to touch # ^ 致 致 了 了 了 直 # ^ 4. Gathering and judgment; and the advancement of computer technology, belt #: automatic analysis of patent analysis; because of belt: profit analysis call :: display, attack, analysis, etc. Combined with computer technology, it becomes a special-type analysis: ''纟 Help users with a more objective and more automated local knife " ping {_ patent affairs, the following is a detailed description of the invention. ^ As shown in FIG. 1, it is one of the applications of the present invention to a computer architecture. 32 First, the computer system of the present invention is programmed into a server / desktop computer or a notebook computer; software 102 of the computer is used. Two = industry system, application software, various components, databases and data, files or data. The computer system of the present invention also belongs to one of the computer software and is placed on computer-readable media such as storage device 103 and memory 104. The execution period is mostly placed in the hard disk drive 105 and the memory 106; the user enters the input / output port 108 of the computer through the wheel-out device 107 such as a keyboard or a mouse, and executes the software of the computer instructions of the present invention. Through the motherboard as the interface 丨 〇9 communicates with other hardware components, and sends it to the central unit processor 丨 丨 〇 to calculate various machine instructions' The software of this computer instruction is processed and the results are sent to the display interface card 111 to be displayed on the screen Π2. If the user is from a local area network (LAN) 1 13, the user can enter the local network interface card 5 through the network device 11 4 to execute the software of the computer command. If the user is from a wide area network (WAN) 116 (or the Internet), enter the local network interface card 115 through the network device 114, or through a modem

594507 V. Description of the invention (4) 117 Log in to another I / O port 118 to execute the software of this computer command. As mentioned above, the application of the present invention can exist in various computer-readable media, including but not limited to floppy disks, hard disks, optical disks, flash ROMs, non-volatile memory (n 〇nv〇latile R〇M) and a variety of access memory (RAM); installation is not limited to a single computer, several computers can be used for load balancing calculations. As shown in Figure 2, if the system of the present invention is one of the ways when it is connected to the network, the present invention is first designed as a computer system 206 and installed on a server-side computer. The Internet or the internal LAN is connected to the server, in which the Internet users 200 workers pass the public, weekly, 'Internet' (Internet) system 20 2 and the server-side web server (Web SerVer ) Connect to 203, and then enter the feeding-side network system 205; this site Cifuyi 203 is the interface between the server and the Internet user Lai, through:-interface, Internet client After the execution of the feeding service, the server can be connected to the server and enter the server system 205 of 2.6. When the system is implemented: the patent analysis and evaluation of the patent system is awkward. When you execute, you can access the resources of the document database 207

^ ^ ΐ ^ ^ ^ 301 J to defend others from accusing us of infringing patent rights, two prior technologies; patent attack analysis trends & Qn〇 Babei force this is to attack the effective interests of the teacher to select the attack. 1 Taking Heng Xia's judgment against patent infringement on other parties as a process

594507 V. Description of the invention (5) Degree; Patent portfolio analysis module 304 is used to study its technical indicators and citation relationships. In fact, it is the core patent of the group of patents. 2. Liyue b was selected by the teacher with good quality: as shown in Figure 4, first for patent defense analysis, step 401 is used for patents, to confirm Guo ^ zhi / yoke steps, and to squeeze from „:, the other party accuses us If you infringe on a patent, enter a patent in principle, and enter the patent that is accused this time. The system should automatically recognize the code and open 3 ™ 6Γ); Step 402 determines whether the patent is / nf Λ line Sex? If yes, then proceed to the next step 403, otherwise the social bundle 405, check the executable form, is to check the actual ==, ::: such as' the patent does not exist at all, the patent right ^ interactive Authorized protection = belongs to 2 3 exclusive rights "both parties: library 2 step 4. 3 calculation of the documents in the database and the patent's exclusive execution schedule, the η 我 of our prior rights is in the patent application Or priority θ (if there is no priority, whichever is the most important), the documents have been established before. The documents include patents, obituary journals, academic publications, newspaper materials, etc., and the degree of similarity between information documents and patents ( similarity), which can be processed by similarity. The present invention only illustrates the similarity operation in one of the ways. , Is not used to limit its use, it is explained as follows: For similarity calculation, the file must be converted into a vector, and then the inner product of the two file vectors is regarded as the similarity value between them, and the file is converted to Vectors, the way of which is described as follows ... After obtaining the _group file information 'and arrange all its possible words, this word

II Page 10 594507 V. Description of invention (6) The group can be a single word, such as "special", "quote", "着", "patent", factory trademark ", factory copyright", etc. Words, such as the ligatures "patent", "trademark", "writing", factory patent pending, factory registered trademark "," copyright materials ", etc. It can also be a combination of single words and plural concatenated words, and then calculate The number of occurrences of each element in the block is a file vector; the type of the vector is exemplified below. For example, all subgroups of a group of files are arranged as (patent pending, registered trademark, copyright materials), and appear in the file. The number of times of "patent pending" is 7 times, the number of times of "registered trademark" is 3 times, and the number of times of "COpyright materials" is 5 times, then the vector of this document is (7, 3, 5 j, which is a three-dimensional vector , And so on to convert other files; some vector types use the presence or absence of words as their component values, such as a file pending pending, "registered trademark", rc〇pyright materials ", then the vector of this document is (true, false, true). It is customary to treat the true value as 丨 and the false value as 〇, then the vector of this document is ( 1, 〇, 1); There are also cases where the true value is regarded as 1, and the value is regarded as 0; however, the vector of a group of files is usually 冋, High Dimensional Vector, and the actual dimension can be as high as 10,000. Dimensions above; the similarity of 1, is to represent f, then the inner product of the two document vectors is calculated as the interval value. If the subject patent is β and the database file is Di, i = 1 calculate the patent document β vector and other Inner product value of file Di vector

594507 V. Description of the invention (7) The similarity between the reference file and other files. The larger the inner product value, the greater the similarity. The inner product value is calculated by multiplying the corresponding corresponding dimension values between the files, and then Sum up; for example, · Patent file B, whose vector is = (B1, β2, ..., Bm), other file numbers are D1 to Dn, and its Di vector is = (Dil, Di2, ... ..., Dim), i = l ~ n, m is the number of dimensions, B and other

The correlation degree of Di is its inner product value = B · Di = Bl X Dil + B2 X Di2 + ... + Bin x Dim, i = l ~ η, and the similarity between B and Dl is its inner product value- B · Dl = B1 X Dl 1 + B2 x D1 2 + ...... + BmxDlm, and so on; 404 Step, select a file with similarity above a certain standard value, and consider it as a valid prior art; In this way, the effective prior art for screening is that the similarity is quite close to the patent and its file creation date is earlier than the patent application or priority date. As shown in Figure 5, this is the implementation steps of the patent attack analysis module 3 03. First, step 501, enter a person's mouth to confirm the subject matter of this analysis, which is regarded as a possible infringing product. The other party's service is also one of the products; I step 502, get the material list of the product; Biu 〇f, y ^ Si, through the technical source used in the product; material clear: middle: including the product will be used The materials, components, or raw materials that are obtained are added to the cylinder to show the source of the technology applied to the product. Early on, you can expand into a more detailed material list. If the product σ list is available for reference, at least w σσ material items, so that the subsequent steps are considered as in the bill of materials-step 503, according to the objects in the bill of materials, retrieve the phase in the database

Page 12 594507 V. Description of the invention (8) Relevant documents, and the combination of documents related to ♦ " ί77 Gan 4Φ Α or 或, *, a ϋ degree exceeding a certain standard value or more, combined, source ;: ίίίΠ To find the related technology of the object, the top 20 articles can be set as "select the top percent M ^ ^ 〇iJ ia si λα ^ cattle". When searching, you can retrieve the names of the objects and close the library to search for similar Text: Techniques: search for #, and then filter the valid documents to the data, see # ^ 504 with the similarity standard set; the above file combination is regarded as a database to 'combine as search conditions' and will be similar Product: The degree of similarity of the files in the file; Step 505, if the file

It is considered that ^ it ^ iM ^ is more than a standard value and the quantity reaches a certain standard quantity or more, it is regarded as having reached the level of infringement. J First: =. The second step is the implementation steps of the patent portfolio analysis module 304. It first picks a group of patents to analyze these patent portfolios and core patents of good quality and πα quality. Step 602, calculates and displays the target: ί "technical indicators, the most commonly used is" cited times n. As for the number of times a patent has been cited by other patents, the present invention enumerates the alpha technical specifications as follows: and index M11; GU1: rent ImPaGt IndeX): This patent = -Number of times cited by other patents in the past year; The average value of his patents, in order to find its normalized value; The 2 cycle time of direct technology (TCT; Techn〇1〇gy Cycie τ ΓΓ = :: : Among the patents, the publication date of the eight patents whose publication date is in the median is subtracted, which is the time when the technology is recycled

Page 13 594507 V. Description of the invention (9); 3. Science linkage (SL; Science Linkage): the number of citations of scientific papers; Consistent standards, such as IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); Step 603, Calculate and display citation relationships, including at least the cited and patents of others; Step 604, according to preset conditions Select the core patent; the preset conditions can be any of the following: 1 · A certain or a number of technical indicators are above the respective standard value 2. · A certain loach of several technical indicators are μ π points e It is cited Patents with a number of times above a certain standard value, 3. Patents with a number of times of being cited above a certain standard value. The company distinguishes its own patents into bismuth, which has been well-known in the past, and has a long-term focus on monitoring these silly blade poles ~ whether the insulting combination has been awarded a profit level for easy formulation; ::: Some people have the right, and some are distinguished among those who specialize in quasi-control rights, transfer, research and development, and in combination with the above, the present invention provides a flying strategy. . ^ Month is a patent analysis and evaluation system, Li Tong ~ ^ analysis,-patent attack analysis, and-almost straight charge, first include-patent anti-purple 2 JS 4 |! ^ V L patent portfolio analysis. The purpose is not to analyze, but its substantive function is to screen the effective ones first: 'Fang's patent infringement allegations, number analysis and oral analysis' is aimed at a group of

The degree of infringement of patent rights shall be determined; the function of coherence is to measure the juxtaposition of 5945507. 5. Description of the invention (10) An arbitrary patent combination is analyzed, and its essential function is a superior patent. Screening quality of horses 3. Screening of prior technologies that are effective in patent defense analysis, based on the patent documents of Japan and Japan, and the degree of similarity between the other party's allegations in document 1 in the preset database, the similarity reached a certain standard value = ratio For *, calculations are cited as valid prior art. The above documents, 4. • In the patent attack analysis, the material list between the patent and the object has been bridged, and the technology that constitutes the object pair is transparent or the component is regarded as the object technology. 2. The subjective judgment problem caused by the parts worker dismantling the object solves the technical source of comparing the items with human rights. It also solves the problem that the present invention can be applied to computer information systems, and its transmission is limited to any medium, such as the network and wireless transmission devices. The technical content and technical features of the present invention have been disclosed. Those skilled in the art may still be based on the teachings of the present invention ^, but they are familiar with the substitutions and modifications that do not depart from the spirit of the present invention; therefore, too many restrictions should not be limited to the protection scope disclosed in the embodiment 2: Substitutions and modifications are covered by the following applications without departing from the invention & Page 594507 Brief description of the drawing Figure 1 is a diagram of the architecture of the present invention applied to a computer; Figure 2 is a diagram of the system and network connection of the present invention; Figure 3 is a diagram of the patent analysis and evaluation system of the present invention; Figure 4 FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a patent defense analysis module in the system; FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a patent attack analysis module in the system; and FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a patent portfolio analysis module in the system.

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Claims (1)

Be 507 6. Scope of patent application h — all kinds of seeds / Λ points, evaluation system and system, including the following modules: Analysis step ^ Analysis module 'is used to screen out valid prior technologies, i. Enter a patent; then enter Whether or not Λ party has the form ^ enforceability is to consider the degree of similarity between the two ::; the previous technology; the files above the standard value of the previous ° and 疋 are regarded as valid-special: attack analysis module, its analysis The steps are: Λ × items, used to confirm the analysis of the objects; ·. Pick up the list of materials to serve the item; iii · according to the objects in the list of materials, inspection parts, the similarity exceeds a certain standard text combination; Documents with a value of more than one thousand are given 1V. Each patent to be compared is sequentially Mm as the source of the database, and similarity is equal to \ = ^ 4 similarity, a certain-above the standard value and the number reaches 2 U-port has infringed the patent right; inside, there is a patent portfolio analysis module whose analysis steps are: i. Enter a group of patents; II. Calculate and display technical indicators; III. Calculate and display citation relationships; 1 v · Select Patent core, which may be chosen, and any of the following Page 17 594507 VI. The scope of the patent application One or several technical indicators are located in their respective standard value patents; One or several technical indicators on the resistance μ are located in their respective standards and their number of citations is above a certain standard value Patents; or 'Patents cited above a certain standard value. 2. The system as described in item No. of the scope of patents, in which the form of enforceability referred to in the exclusive eight, the group includes at least the patent is indeed; Cross authorization protection. 3. The system as described in item 丨 of the scope of patent application, wherein in the patent analysis module, the database is a collection of documents filed for the patent. Urge "The system built by 4. The system as described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, in which the material in the direct analysis module is finely divided into 嗲 兔〗 〖Attack points 5 such as Φ" is the raw material, parts or components of σ . The system described in item 1 of the grip 4 application, in which eighteen molds were attacked in the patent, and the material list cannot be obtained at the center right or the material list is empty. This item is regarded as the only one in the material list. …,, Then 6 is the system described in item 丨 of the scope of patent application. 1 The technical index in the analysis module is the current impact on the links of scientific papers in j and f. The technical cycle time or 7 articles Said the system described in item 1 of the scope of profit, where the similarity can be the inner product value between two and one pieces. And > 1 Ma Liang 8 · A method of patent validity analysis, the steps are: (a ) Enter a patent; (b) Determine whether the patent is formally enforceable to us, if so Page 18 594507 VI. The scope of patent application is the next step, otherwise it will stop; and (c) the calculation between the documents in the database and the patent = reaching a certain preset ladder, and the documents above the value will be deemed to be effective First ^ ^ The method described in item 8 of the scope of the patent application 'wherein step (b), two') The enforceability includes at least: the patent does exist, is owned by the other party, and is mutually authorized by the unlicensed parties. . = The method as described in item 8 of the scope of patent application, wherein in the step: ί: The library is the method described in item 8 of the document of female patent scope, which is established before the patent application date or priority date, where the similarity Can be the inner product value between two file vectors. j Feng 1 2-A method of analyzing patent infringement, the steps are as follows: (a) Enter a product to confirm the object of analysis; if there is no material list of the product, the production port is regarded as the material The only object in the list; (= according to the objects in the Λ list of materials, retrieve the relevant documents in the database,: documents whose degrees exceed a certain pre-set standard value will be grouped (/) The patents to be compared are regarded as search conditions in turn. The above-mentioned combination is regarded as the source of the database, and similarity search is performed. If the documents meet a certain standard value or more and the quantity reaches a certain standard number, the product has violated the Regarding the patent right, it will be regarded as the method described in item 12 of Shenyan's patent scope, in which the material list, page 19, 594507, the scope of patent application, A, the raw materials, parts, or component materials that make up the δ11 item. In the method described in item 12, if the item in the list cannot be obtained, the item is regarded as a material. 1 · The inner product value between the two document vectors as described in item 12 of the patent application scope. 1 6 · A patent portfolio analysis method, the steps are: (a) input a group of patents; where the similarity can be (b) calculate and display technical indicators; (c) calculate and display citation relationships; (d) select core patents, select The method can be any of the following: • 1 · One or several technical indicators are above the standard Page 20 " ^ --- 1 1 · A certain or a number of technical indicators are above their respective standard values, and the number of times their citations are above a certain standard value; or iii · The number of citations are above a certain standard value The above patents. 17. The method described in item 16 of the scope of patent application, wherein the technical indicator may be a current impact index, a technical cycle time, or a link to a scientific paper.