Patent Claim Interpretation Methodologies and Their Claim Scope Paradigms

Patent "Trolls" and Claim Construction

This Essay explores the largely overlooked relationship between claim construction and patent assertion entities (patent “trolls”) finding that claim construction problems and trends benefit patent assertion entities. First, the Federal Circuit is deeply divided as to the proper approach to claim construction. This split is a significant contributor to uncertain patent scope, which is widely-re...

Simplification of Patent Claim Sentences for their Paraphrasing and Summarization

We present an approach to patent claim simplification which segments claim sentences into clausal discourse units, transforms them into complete sentences, establishes coreference relations and builds a discourse structure between discourse units. The four stages are necessary to allow for the syntactic analysis of otherwise unparsable claim sentences and their regeneration using discourse stru...

Patent Claim Processing For Readability - Structure Analysis And Term Explanation

Patent corpus processing should be centered around patent claim processing because claims are the most important part in patent specifications. It is common that claims written in Japanese are described in one sentence with peculiar style and wording and are difficult to understand for ordinary people. The peculiarity is caused by structural complexity of the sentences and many difficult terms ...

Judicial Capacities and Patent Claim Construction: An Ordinary Reader Standard

Improving Automated Patent Claim Parsing: Dataset, System, and Experiments

claims trigrams trigrams dependencies AMT-trained fixed dependencies 3.699% 4.697% 5.974% 18.18% 3.99% 2.797% 3.696% 2.597% 3.297% FEATURES (TFIDFs of) SVM Classifier's Error Rate DATASET