Patent Portfolio Graph Encoding for Contravention Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to efficiently evaluate large sets of intellectual property rights for potential issues with invalidity and unenforceability, particularly due to complex jurisdictional requirements and interrelated rights, making it time-consuming and laborious to determine validity and enforceability.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that encodes intellectual property rights as nodes in a directed acyclic graph, emphasizing potential contraventions through visual rendering, using attributes and connectors to highlight issues such as inventorship, claims of priority, and entity status, facilitating quick identification of legal contraventions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual evaluation methods are used to assess intellectual property rights, then detailed analysis can be performed, but the process becomes time-consuming and laborious
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical evaluation processes with automated computer-based systems that use algorithms to analyze intellectual property rights data, extract relationships, and identify potential contraventions automatically, maintaining analysis depth while dramatically reducing evaluation time
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates structured digital representations (graphs) of intellectual property rights and their relationships, allowing automated analysis of copied data structures rather than requiring direct manual examination of original complex legal documents and databases
2Reliability
If comprehensive analysis of all intellectual property rights is conducted, then potential issues can be identified, but the complexity of managing large sets of related rights increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex evaluation task into distinct components: data extraction from intellectual property rights, relationship identification between rights, graph construction, and contravention detection. This modular approach manages system complexity while maintaining comprehensive analysis capability
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary graphical representation layer that models intellectual property rights and their relationships. This intermediate graph structure simplifies the complex web of relationships into a manageable format that enables systematic analysis without overwhelming system complexity
3Productivity
If visual representation of intellectual property rights is implemented, then quick identification of issues is enabled, but the encoding and rendering process adds system complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses color coding in the visual graph representation to indicate different types of intellectual property rights, relationship types, and potential contraventions. This visual encoding enables rapid identification of issues without requiring complex textual analysis, improving evaluation speed while using straightforward graphical techniques
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AI summary
A method for identifying potential contraventions of law with respect to intellectual property rights is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method identifies a set of related intellectual property rights, such as a patent portfolio made up of multiple patents and/or patent applications. The method analyzes the set to determine potential contraventions of law associated with the set. The method then encodes the related intellectual property rights as nodes in a directed acyclic graph capable of visual representation. Relationships between the related intellectual property rights may be encoded as connectors between the nodes. The method may emphasize particular nodes to indicate potential contraventions of law for the associated intellectual property rights. Similarly, the method may emphasize particular connectors to indicate potential contraventions of law for the associated relationships between the intellectual property rights. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed and claimed herein.