For decades, parties accused of patent infringement in district court litigation have relied upon the doctrine of inherent anticipation to attack the validity of patent claims. Generally, such inherency arguments are supported by testimony from an expert witness. Because America Invents Act reviews before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board allow parties to subm...

The number of patent applications is growing steadily over the years. In the year 2014, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office registered 615,243 filed patent applications. In the year 2000, the number was only as high as 315,015 [1]. In order to efficiently process and search those applications, patent documents are annotated with the different areas of technology to which they belong. This proc...

This paper addresses a method for customizing an English-Korean machine translation system from general domain to patent domain. The customizing method includes the followings: (1) extracting and constructing large bilingual terminology and the patent-specific translation patterns, (2) adapting the probabilities of POS tagger trained from general domain to the patent domain, (3) syntactically a...

We study optimal patent design with sequential innovation. Firms innovate by undertaking “research” activities to generate new ideas and by undertaking “development” activities to transform these ideas into viable products. We characterize optimal patent policy, in particular, the tradeoff between patent length and breadth in this setting. We identify a “replacement effect” from the social plan...

The modeling and computation of patent citations data provides an exciting opportunity to examine the links among inventions and inventors, over time, space, technology, and institutions. So far, a number of scientometric and econometric models, which deal with number of patents and use count data model, are introduced to analyze the relationship among that number of patents (research output) a...

European Patent Office (EPO) practice, guided by the European Patent Convention (EPC) is in many aspects very similar to Europe's national patent practice, such as the German patent law. In this article, the US practitioner is briefly reminded of some of the considerable differences between US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent prosecution practice and its European counterparts, primari...

Patent infringement risk is a significant issue for corporations due to the increased appreciation of intellectual property rights. If a corporation gives insufficient protection to its patents, it may loss both profits from product, and industry competitiveness. Many studies on patent infringement have focused on measuring the patent trend indicators and the patent monetary value. However, ver...

In this paper, we propose an approach for corporate decision making with self-organizing patent maps labeled by technical terms and AHP. First, we select the patent area of interest and collect pertinent patent documents in text format. Second, we extract keywords by text mining to transform patent documents into feature vectors of the companies. Third, we input the feature matrix of technical ...

The rapid growth of patent documents has called for the development of sophisticated patent analysis tools. Currently, there are various tools that are being utilized by organizations for analyzing patents. These tools are capable of performing wide range of tasks, such as analyzing and forecasting future technological trends, conducting strategic technology planning, detecting patent infringem...