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1 U A1 (19) United tate (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: U 2010/ A1 Gibb et al. (43) Pub. Date: May 20, 2010 (54) YTEMAND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING Publication Claification A PATENT EARCH (51) Int. Cl. (75) Inventor: Andrew Gibb, Yuba City, CA get 79.O CR (U); tephanie A. Gibb, Yuba ( ) City, CA (U) G06F 7/00 ( ) (52) U.. Cl /722; 707/E Correpondence Addre: (57) ABTRACT WILMERHALEABOTON 6O TATE TREET A ytem for creating a patent earch report compriing a cae BOTON, MA (U) management ubytem for receiving patent-related informa tion from a patent document and creating the patent earch (73) Aignee: PATENTCAFE.COM, INC., report, a earch ubytem for earching at leat one databae ACRAMENTO, CA (U) uing the patent-related information a a earch query, and a claification ubytem for claifying the patent-related (21) Appl. No.: 12/272,808 information according to one or more international claifi cation ytem baed on the earching of the at leat one (22) Filed: Nov. 18, 2008 databae. &

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11 U 2010/ A1 May 20, 2010 YTEMAND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING A PATENT EARCH CRO-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION Thi application i baed upon and claim the ben efit of priority from Proviional Application No. 60/988,389 filed Nov. 15, 2007, the entire content of which are incorpo rated herein by reference. FIELD Thi preent dicloure relate generally to patent earching, and in particular but not excluively, relate to a ytem and method for automating variou operation that are normally conducted manually by patent profeional and inventor during the preparation of a patent prior art earch report and the creation of a final patent earch report. BACKGROUND 0003) A new invention mut meet certain criteria in order to be conidered patentable. Under thee criteria, an invention mut be novel, non-obviou to one killed in the art, and ueful. In order to determine whether an invention i novel or non-obviou, inventor and their patent agent or attorney typically conduct a earch on a databae containing exiting United tate and foreign patent or publihed patent appli cation, technical journal article, pecialized databae for genomic equence or chemical tructure, a well a other technical or cientific reference, to determine whether the invention wa previouly patented or dicloed by another. If the earch reult in the dicovery of a document that di cloe the ame invention, the preent invention may not be patentable. The tudy of thee earlier reference i called a prior art earch. Patent examiner at the U Patent and Trade mark Office (UPTO) conduct a prior art earch on every newly ubmitted patent application to determine whether the claimed invention i patentable over the prior art Prior art earche are alo conducted for reaon other than determining patentability. Profeional in the intellectual property indutry routinely earch prior art data bae to invetigate the potential infringement of a product on a granted patent, or to earch for prior art that may be ued to argue the potential invalidity of a granted patent. 0005) A peron conducting a comprehenive prior art earch typically follow a complex, iterative proce of earching prior art databae, uually through the ue of a computer connected to a databae and earch interface, recording the earch querie ued to conduct the earch, con tinuing to refine the earch, copying of additional information from the earch reult lit, for example, the lit of reference mot cloely related to the new invention being earched, typing a lit of explanation that dicu difference between the new invention and prior art reference found during the earch, and compiling all of the earch information into a ingle report for delivery to the inventor, an attorney, or to the UPTO in aociation with a patent application. ince a earch i conducted on a new invention prior to filing for a new patent application, which will be examined by a patent office examiner at ome later date, the final work product i typically referred to a a Pre-examination earch Report The compilation of the report require the report preparer to ubmit the information contained in the report following a pecified tructure that clearly preent the detail of the earch including, but not necearily limited to a report ection pecifically identifying the location within each prior art reference where the reference dicloe art imilar to the claimed invention, a report ection howing where each claim in the patent application i upported within the Written decription of the application, a ection identifying the data bae that were ued for the earch, and one or more ection including variou tatement related to the earch, uch a a precie tatement of utility for each independent claim of the patent application, tatement howing upport for each mean-plu-function, or tep-plu-function claim limitation, a tatement of mall entity tatu if neceary, and a variety of other tatement pecifically relating to the earch report. invention or related patent application The earcher, or poibly an adminitrative upport peron, will typically prepare a number of pre-formatted form to accompany the ubmiion of the Pre-examination earch Report to the patent office. In the United tate, the form typically prepared for ubmiion to the UPTO include a tranmittal form, an Information Dicloure tate ment that lit prior art reference and variou petition or other patent office form that would typically accompany the patent application and earch report It can be readily undertood from the previou decription that earch report preparation i a complex, time conuming proce that relie primarily on manual labor. The proce alo require the earcher or preparer to exercie extreme diligence in following each tep of the workflow proce, uually in equence, to enure that the report i complete, that no tep are mied, and that the final Pre examination earch Report and all required form for report ubmiion are properly completed. Mied tep, or miing information required to be in the earch report could reult in the patent office' rejection of the earch reportin it entirety Variou oftware and patent earch engine provider have attempted to automate variou tep of the earch report proce. For example, LexiNexiR PatentOptimizerTM er vice wa developed pecifically to aid in the drafting and analyi of patent application and granted patent. Thi oft ware decontruct the claim of a patent to how frequency of keyword ued in claim contruction, and how prior art reference where the ame keyword appear in the claim of referenced prior art document. However, thi olution i more appropriately ued to ait an attorney in drafting the claim of a new patent application rather than aiting in the actual prior art earch or preparation of a Pre-examination earch Report. In combination, PatentHunter, a oftware tool that retrieve patent document baed on a keyword earch, and PatentWizard R., a oftware tool that ait in compiling a patent application, provide a rudimentary level of automa tion, but thi combination i primarily limited to the creation of a proviional patent application, and doe not addre Pre-examination earch Report. PatentProR and Pat enteae R are two oftware application that automate the compilation of non-proviional patent application, but they do not provide a mean to conduct a prior art earch, and do not ait in the preparation of a Pre-examination earch Report. earch engine provider uch a Delphion do provide elementary oftware tool that may ait a earcher to pre pare a earch report, uch a the recording of earch querie ued in the prior art earch, or the aving of prior art refer ence that will be later included in the Information Dicloure tatement that accompanie the Pre-examination earch Report. Delphion alo provide a utility called Workfile:

12 U 2010/O A1 May 20, 2010 however, Delphion provide no mean of automating the pro ce of earching, claifying a patent application or patent claim, or compiling earch report or tandardized form It can be readily een that there i not a lack of attempt to automate the workflow proce of earching pat ent, creating earch report, or preparing tandardized form, and uch attempt have been only marginally ucce ful in emi-automating a very limited number of any of the tep encountered in the overall Pre-examination earch Report workflow proce. BRIEF DECRIPTION OF THE DRAWING 0011 Non-limiting and non-exhautive embodiment are decribed with reference to the following figure, wherein like reference numeral refer to like part throughout the variou view unle otherwie pecified FIG. 1 i an exemplary diagram howing one varia tion of the workflow automation proce in an embodiment FIG. 2 i an exemplary diagram howing a computer ytem in an embodiment FIG.3 i an exemplary flowchart howing a proce of creating a new cae in an embodiment FIG. 4 i an exemplary flowchart and imulated computer creen howing a proce to edit cae information in an embodiment FIG. 5 i an exemplary flowchart and imulated computer creen howing a proce to conduct a prior art earch, and to review the earch reult lit in an embodiment FIG. 6 i an exemplary flowchart and imulated computer creen howing a proce to enter information related to a prior art reference in an embodiment FIG. 7 i an exemplary flowchart and imulated computer creen howing a proce of adding additional prior art reference in an embodiment FIG. 8 i an exemplary flowchart and imulated computer creen howing a proce of earching a patent pecification for reference that how upport for a claiminan embodiment FIG. 9 i a flowchart illutrating a proce for iden tifying claification for patent claim in an embodiment. DETAILED DECRIPTION 0021 Variou apect of pecific embodiment are di cloed in the following decription and related drawing. Alternate embodiment may be devied without departing from the pirit or the cope of the preent dicloure. Addi tionally, well-known element of exemplary embodiment will not be decribed in detail or will be omitted o a not to obcure relevant detail. Further, to facilitate an undertand ing of the decription, a dicuion of everal term ued herein follow The word exemplary i ued hereinto mean erv ing a an example, intance, or illutration. Any embodiment decribed herein a exemplary' i not necearily to be con trued a preferred or advantageou over other embodiment. Likewie, the term "embodiment i not exhautive and doe not require that all embodiment include the dicued fea ture, advantage or mode of operation FIG. 1 illutrate an embodiment of a workflow automation proce executed on a computer oftware ytem. A new earch report i created by firt opening a new cae 60, or opening an exiting cae from the collection of previouly created cae contained in a cae deck 32 collection of the uer' cae. The computer oftware ytem provide for the entry into a member databae of the text of the pecification and claim 68 of a patent for which a earch report will be prepared. The computer oftware ytem provide for the automatic claification 70 of the claim, identifying the mot cloely related U patent claification for each claim. The computer oftware ytem provide for the automation of a patent prior art earch 80 in one or more databae containing prior art document. The computer oftware ytem include a plurality of text input creen 84 that allow the uer to enter decription and explanation of related prior art reference. Continuing along a workflow proce, the computer oftware ytem provide for the automated analyi 100 of a patent pecification to identify intance in the pecification that how upport for each or any of the patent claim. The com puter oftware ytem provide for adding certification 120 or tatement related to the preparation of a earch report, or more generally, to the patent application. The computer oft ware ytem include a mean to review and edit information 108 contained in a preliminary earch report prior to finaliz ing and printing 110 of the final Pre-examination earch Report FIG. 2 illutrate ubytem of the computer oft ware ytem hown in FIG. 1 which include an international patent databae 10 containing U.. and foreign patent docu ment. Additionally, the ytem provide for a plurality of databae that may contain granted patent, publihed patent application, non-patent document, or other reference that may be ueful to conducting a prior art earch. A econd databae 20 i a patent concept pace databae compriing vector that repreent the document being earched. The concept pace i created uing a Latent emantic Analyi (LA) or Latent emantic Index (LI), natural language pro ceing technique that analyze relationhip between a et of document and the term they contain by producing a et of concept related to the document and term. The patent concept pace databae 20 i a emantic repreentation of the patent document contained in the international patent data bae 10. In one embodiment, a databae 40 contain a library of definition for each U.. patent claification and ub claification included in the U.. Patent Claification y tem. In an alternative embodiment, one or more databae are provided that contain variou librarie of definition from international claification ytem, by way of example, the library of definition for International Patent Claification (IPC) or the European Claification ytem (ECLA). The computer oftware ytem alo provide a member databae 30 that i ued to tore record and information for each uer of the ytem. The record may include, but of coure are not limited to, a member' peronal account information, a deck or collection of cae which have been previouly created, or other information about, or managed by the member The computer ytem provide for the purchae of acce to the ytem by mean of an electronic commerce interface 50 through which a member enter their peronal and account information 52, and pay for acce to the ytem through a billing method or web-baed hopping cart In an exemplary embodiment, a ubytem i pro vided in the computer oftware ytem to create and manage one or more cae 60 baed on uer-entered cae data 62. The cae data 62 may include docket number, patent application filing date, priority date for the application, applicant name, entity type, client name, patent or patent application title, erial number or patent application number, the name of the

13 U 2010/O A1 May 20, 2010 firt named inventor and any other co-inventor 64, or other information particular to the preent cae for which a earch report will be prepared. Thi ubytem further provide text entry creen to allow an end-uer to enter the text of the pecification of a patent or patent application 66, and another text entry creen ued for entering one or more claim of the patent or application 68. An embodiment of the proce implemented by the ubytem to create and manage a cae i dicloed in FIG. 3 and an embodiment of a proce and repreentative computer creen for uer input to edit and ave changed cae information i dicloed in FIG FIG. 9 illutrate an exemplary embodiment of a proce ued in a claification ytem 70 for automating the identification of the mot cloely related U.. patent claifi cation for one or more claim. Thoe killed in the art will undertand that the claification ytem could jut a well claify one or more claim according to the IPC, ECLA or other claification ytem. To etablih the mot cloely related claification for each claim, the computer ytem automatically retrieve the text of the claim to be claified from the previouly entered cae information tored upon the member databae 30, and ue the full text a a earch query applied upon one or more of the claification databae 40, the patent concept pace databae 20, or another appropriate databae that may be a databae of the computer ytem. The earch query return a et of reult compried of a relevancy ranked lit of U claification mot cloely related to the claim included in the earch query. In the normal workflow proce, the uer review the claification lit and elect one or more main claification 72 that the uer believe mot accurately reflect the ubject matter of the claim. The com puter ytem provide for refinement of the main claifica tion by conducting a econd earch uing a the earch query a combination of the computer ytem automatically retriev ing the text of the claim to be claified, and combining it with each of the main U claification elected by the uer 72, thereby creating a earch query compried of a boolean key word and emantic concept query, known to thoe killed in the art a an heuritic earch query. The econd earch return a et of reult compried of a relevancy-ranked lit of U claification and ub-claification mot cloely related to the claim included in the earch query. In the normal work flow proce, the uer review the claification/ub-claifi cation lit and elect one or more cla/ubcla combina tion 74 that the uer believe mot accurately reflect the ubject matter of the claim. The cla / ubcla combination i identified a the Field of earch to be later ued a a Boolean keyword for conducting a prior art earch. A an additional tep, the claification ytem automatically preent previ ouly granted or publihed prior art patent or patent appli cation mot cloely related to the elected cla/ub-combi nation 74. Thi proce i ued to verify the relevancy of the elected cla/ubcla for the claim being claified 76 to patent document previouly claified by the patent office according to one of more of the elected cla/ubcla com bination The exemplary embodiment include a ubytem 80 to automate the prior art earch leading to the identification of the mot cloely related prior art reference for each of one or more claim. To etablih the mot cloely related prior document for each claim, the computer ytem automati cally retrieve the text of the claim to be earched from the previouly entered cae information tored in the member databae 30, and ue the full text a a earch query applied to the patent concept pace databae 20, or another appropriate databae that may be acceible from or within the computer ytem. Thoe killed in the art will undertand that a prior art earch ytem can alo include a non-patent concept pace databae repreenting a databae of patent iued from other patent authoritie uch a the European Patent Office of the Japanee Patent Office, or non-patent literature or other prior art document collection. The earch query return a reult et compried of a relevancy-ranked lit of U granted patent, publihed U patent application, and publihed patent docu ment from the European Patent Office (EPO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (PCT application), or other patentiuing authoritie. The prior art document mot cloely related to the claim included in the earch query are returned. In the normal workflow proce, the uer review the ranked lit of reference, and elect each one to review 82 in more detail. When the uer deire to view more detailed information of the reference, additional information i pre ented. In the cae where the referenced document i a patent, the information may include patent bibliographic informa tion uch a patent number, U.. patent claification, IPC, filing date, iue or publication date, priority document num ber, reference, inventor name(), applicant/aignee name, patent examiner name, patentattorney or agent, full text of the abtract, detailed pecification, claim, drawing, or other information that may be contained on the patent document. When the reearcher elect a reference to be included in the Pre-examination earch Report, the reearcher review the reference document in detail to identify the pecific ection within the referenced document that dicloe a patent claim limitation undergoing the earch. The prior art earch ytem provide a text entry creen allowing the reearcher to enter annotation 84 relating to the reference, including but not necearily limited to pecifying the location of a dicloure within the reference related to the limitation of the claim, the entry of an explanation of patentability of the claim over the dicloure of the reference, and the entry of a tatement of utility. Upon completing the addition of annotation to the reference, the uer may view other reference related to the ame claim, and repeat the proce. Further, the proce jut decribed would be repeated for each claim for which a prior art earch i deired. An embodiment of a proce for per forming a prior art earch uing the ubytem 80 i dicloed in FIG. 5, and yet another embodiment of the method and a repreentative uer interface for adding annotation related to a reference 84 i dicloed in FIG An alternative embodiment of the prior art earch ubytem 80 provide for the computer ytem to automati cally create an Heuritic earch query compriing retrieved text of the claim to be earched from the previouly entered cae information tored upon the member databae 30, a Boolean operator AND, and the Field of earch claification previouly identified in the claification ytem. The reult lit obtained from the Heuritic earch query i compried of a relevancy-ranked lit of U granted patent, publihed U patent application, and publihed patent document from the European Patent Office (EPO), the World Intellectual Prop erty Organization (PCT application), or other patent iuing authoritie. Thee document repreent the prior art which i mot cloely related to the claim included in the earch query. In the normal workflow proce, the uer review the ranked lit of reference, and elect each one to review 82 in more detail. When the uer deire viewing more detailed informa tion of the reference, additional information i preented. In

14 U 2010/O A1 May 20, 2010 the cae where the referenced document i a patent, the infor mation may include patent bibliographic information uch a patent number, U.. patent claification, IPC, filing date, iue or publication date, priority document number, refer ence, inventor name(), applicant/aignee name, patent examiner name, patent attorney or agent, full text of the abtract, detailed pecification, claim, drawing, or other information that may be contained on the patent document. When the reearcher elect a reference to be included in the Pre-examination earch Report, the reearcher review the reference document in detail to identify the pecific ection within the referenced document that dicloe a claim limita tion undergoing the earch. The prior art earch ytem pro vide a text entry creen allowing the reearcher to enter annotation 84 relating to the reference, including but not necearily limited to pecifying the location of a dicloure within the reference related to the limitation of the claim, the entry of an explanation of patentability of the claim over the dicloure of the reference, and the entry of a tatement of utility. Upon completion of adding annotation to the refer ence, the uer may view other reference related to the ame claim, and repeat the proce jut decribed. Further, the proce jut decribed would be repeated for each claim for which a prior art earch i deired To thoe killed in the art, it i evident that no ingle prior art databae i likely to contain every poible prior art reference deemed relevant to the claim being earched. In order to allow reference obtained from databae outide of the computer oftware ytem, or a reference imply known to the reearcher, the exemplary embodiment include a ub ytem that allow the uer to add other reference 90 into the Pre-examination earch Report. Text input creen are pro vided allowing for the addition of patent reference 92, non patent reference 94, and to add a record of the earch activity 96. earch activity conducted on a third party databae include, but i not limited to, the earch query or earch logic ued in the earch, the databae ervice provider ued for the earch, the particular data file or document collection upon which the earch wa conducted, pecific location where limitation of the claim appear in the reference, explanation of patentability of the claim over the cited reference, and a concie tatement of utility. Another embodiment of the com puter oftware ytem allowing the addition of other refer ence 90 i dicloed in FIG Yet another embodiment of the computer oftware ytem allow for the howing of upport for the claim 100 being earch by identifying each mean-plu-function or tep-plu-function claim element under 35 U..C. 112, Para. 6, and identifying where each limitation of the claim 100 find upport under 35 U..C. 112, Para. 1. In automating the howing of upport, the computer oftware ytem firt retrieve and emantically indexe the text of the pecification of the patent or patent application wa previouly entered a cae information tored in the member databae 30, and tore it a a temporary document in the patent concept pace data bae 20. The computer oftware ytem divide the text of the pecification into individual paragraph, and indexe each paragraph a a peudo document for later earching. The computer oftware ytem further retrieve the full text of each claim which wa previouly entered in the cae infor mation and tored in the member databae 30. Continuing the automated workflow proce, the computer oftware ytem conduct a earch of the pecification to identify the para graph that mot cloely relate to, and upport each claim by a proce compried of applying the text of each claim to be earched a a earch query 102 to paragraph of the pecifi cation that are tored in the patent concept pace databae 20 a a temporary document. The earch reult lit preent every paragraph of the pecification ranked in decending order from the paragraph mot cloely related to and in up port of the claim. The computer oftware ytem further pro vide for a text entry creen 104 into which the reearcher may copy and pate, or manually enter the pecific dicloure, or the location of the dicloure contained within the pecifi cation that upport the claim. An embodiment of the method and uer interface implemented by the computer oftware ytem which allow the howing of upport of the claim 100 in the pecification i dicloed in FIG Yet another embodiment of the computer oftware ytem provide for the creation of one or more report 120 containing the information of one or more of the procee completed within the workflow proce of the computer oft ware ytem. By programmatically placing the cae informa tion contained in the member databae 30 onto tandardized or non-tandardized preformatted form, a reearcher can quickly and eaily create a final Pre-examination earch Report document and aociated ubmittal form ready for hardcopy printing or filing electronically through the UPTO EF-web or other electronic filing ytem. uch report may include, but are not limited to tandardized form required by the UPTO to accompany a earch report or patent applica tion, for example, PTO/B/08A (05-07) Information Diclo ure tatement By Applicant, PTO/B/28 (04-07) Petition to Make pecial Under Accelerated Examination Program, and tandardized tranmittal form. Non-tandardized form may include, but are not limited to variou form uch a a Pre examination earch Record, Explanation of Patentability of the Claim Over The Reference, tatement of Utility, A howing Of upport Of the Limitation of the Claim, form containing attetation or certification made by the earcher, preparer or inventor a may be deired, and other form for organizing and preenting a Pre-examination earch Report A would be obviou to one killed in the art, although much le efficient, and more manually intenive, a traditional Boolean keyword earch proce may be ued to replace the automated Latent emantic Analyi earch pro ce. The embodiment dicloed herein are not intended to limit the automated compiling of a final Pre-examination earch Report to the excluion of a Boolean keyword earch proce, but to dicloe the integrated claification, earch and report generation proce ubtantially a decribed by the preent computer oftware ytem Although pecific embodiment have been illu trated and decribed herein, it will be appreciated by thoe of ordinary kill in the art that a wide variety of alternate and/or equivalent implementation may be ubtituted for the pe cific embodiment hown and decribed without departing from the cope of the preent dicloure. Thi application i intended to cover any adaptation or variation of the embodi ment dicued herein. What i claimed i: 1. A computer-implemented method for creating a patent earch report, the method compriing: receiving patent-related information related to a patent document; earching at leat one databae uing the patent-related information a a earch query;

15 U 2010/O A1 May 20, 2010 claifying the patent-related information according to one or more international claification ytem; and creatingapatent earch report baed on the earching of the patent-related information and the claifying of the patent-related information. 2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the patent document i a U.. patent application. 3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the patent document i a granted U.. utility patent. 4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the patent-related information i compried of a firt portion and a econd portion, the firt portion including a patent application pecification and the econd portion including at leat one patent claim from the patent application. 5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 wherein the earching of the at leat one databae i performed uing the econd portion of the patent-related information a the earch query. 6. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 wherein the earching of the at leat one databae i performed uing the econd portion of the patent-related information and a field of earch retrieved from a claification databae a the earch query. 7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the at leat one databae i an international databae including U.. and foreign patent document. 8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the at leat one databae i a patent concept pace databae. 9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the at leat one databae include at leat one of granted patent, publihed patent application and non-patent docu ment. 10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 wherein the patent concept pace databae comprie vector created from ue of a natural language proceing technique. 11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 wherein the natural language proceing technique i Latent emantic Analyi. 12. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 wherein the natural language proceing technique i Latent emantic Index. 13. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the receiving of the patent-related information further com prie opening a cae file for management of the earching uing the patent-related information, the claifying of the patent-related information, and the creation of the patent earch report. 14. The computer-implemented method of claim 13 wherein the cae file i a new cae file in a member databae. 15. The computer-implemented method of claim 13 wherein the cae file i an exiting cae file in a member databae created from a cae deck collection including the patent document. 16. The computer-implemented method of claim 13 wherein the cae file include at leat one of a docket number, a patent application filing date, a priority date for a patent application, a patent application erial number and a name of a firt named inventor. 17. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the claifying of the patent-related information comprie: retrieving at leat one patent claim from the patent docu ment; uing the at leat one retrieved patent claim a the earch query; and earching at leat one of a claification databae and a patent concept pace databae uing the earch query. 18. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the international claification ytem include at leat one of the U.. Patent Claification ytem, the International Patent Claification (IPC) ytem and the European Claification ytem (ECLA). 19. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the creating of the patent earch report comprie: identifying a location of a dicloure in one or more refer ence document retrieved from the earching of the at leat one databae uing the patent-related information; entering an explanation of patentability of at leat one patent claim over the dicloure located in the one or more reference document; entering a tatement of utility relating to the at leat one patent claim; and howing of upport for the at leat one patent claim in a pecification of the patent document. 20. The computer-implemented method of claim 20 wherein the howing of upport comprie: emantically indexing a plurality of textual paragraph in the pecification; retrieving the emantically indexed textual paragraph; applying a a earch query the at leat one patent claim to the retrieved, emantically indexed textual paragraph; and generating a rank-ordered reult lit of the textual para graph mot emantically related to the at leat one patent claim. 21. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the creating of the patent earch report comprie: identifying a location of a dicloure in one or more refer ence document retrieved from the earching of the at leat one databae uing the patent-related information; entering an explanation of patentability of at leat one patent claim over the dicloure located in the one or more reference document; and howing of upport for the at leat one patent claim in a pecification of the patent document. 22. The computer-implemented method of claim 21 wherein the howing of upport comprie: emantically indexing a plurality of textual paragraph in the pecification; retrieving the emantically indexed textual paragraph; applying a a earch query the at leat one patent claim to the retrieved, emantically indexed textual paragraph; and generating a rank-ordered reult lit of the textual para graph mot emantically related to the at leat one patent claim. 23. A ytem for creating a patent earch report, the ytem compriing: a cae management ubytem for receiving patent-related information from a patent document and creating the patent earch report; a earch ubytem for earching at leat one databae uing the patent-related information a a earch query; and a claification ubytem for claifying the patent-related information according to one or more international cla ification ytem baed on the earching of the at leat one databae.

16 U 2010/O A1 May 20, The ytem of claim 23 wherein the patent document i a U.. patent application. 25. The ytem of claim 24 wherein the patent document i a granted U.. utility patent. 26. The ytem of claim 24 wherein the patent-related information i compried of a firt portion and a econd por tion, the firt portion including a patent application pecifica tion and the econd portion including at leat one patent claim from the patent application. 27. The ytem of claim 26 wherein the earch query include the econd portion of the patent-related information. 28. The ytem of claim 26 wherein the earch query include the econd portion of the patent-related information and a field of earch retrieved from a claification databae. 29. The ytem of claim 23 wherein the at leat one data bae i an international databae including U.. and foreign patent document. 30. The ytem of claim 23 wherein the at leat one data bae i a patent concept pace databae. 31. The ytem of claim 23 wherein the at leat one data bae include at leat one of granted patent, publihed patent application and non-patent document. 32. The ytem of claim 30 wherein the patent concept pace databae comprie vector created from ue of a natu ral language proceing technique. 33. The ytem of claim 32 wherein the natural language proceing technique i Latent emantic Analyi. 34. The ytem of claim 32 wherein the natural language proceing technique i Latent emantic Index. 35. The ytem of claim 23 wherein the cae management ubytem i operative to open a cae file for management of the earching uing the received patent-related information. 36. The ytem of claim 35 further compriing a member databae, wherein the cae file i a new cae file in the member databae. 37. The ytem of claim 35 further compriing a member databae, wherein the cae file i an exiting cae file in the member databae created from a cae deck collection includ ing the patent document. 38. The ytem of claim35 wherein the cae file include at leat one of a docket number, a patent application filing date, a priority date for a patent application, a patent application erial number and a name of a firt named inventor. 39. The ytem of claim 23 wherein the claification ub ytem include a claification databae, the claification databae toring a plurality of field of earch claification for at leat one of the one or more international claification ytem. 40. The ytem of claim 39 wherein the claification ub ytem i operative to: retrieve at leat one patent claim from the patent document; ue the at leat one retrieved patent claim a the earch query; and earch at leat one of the claification databae and a patent concept pace databae uing the earch query. 41. The ytem of claim 23 wherein the international cla ification ytem include at leat one of the U.. Patent Claification ytem, the International Patent Claification (IPC) and the European Claification ytem (ECLA). 42. The ytem of claim 23 wherein the cae management ubytem i operative to: enable an end-uer to identify a location of a dicloure in one or more reference document retrieved from the earching of the at leat one databae; enable an end-uer to enter on a firt uer interface an explanation of patentability of at leat one patent claim over the dicloure located in the one or more reference document; enable an end-uer to enter on a econd uer interface a tatement of utility relating to the at leat one patent claim; and enable an end-uer to how upport for the at leat one patent claim in a pecification of the patent document. 43. The computer-implemented method of claim 42 wherein the howing of upport comprie: emantically indexing a plurality of textual paragraph in the pecification; retrieving the emantically indexed textual paragraph; applying a a earch query the at leat one patent claim to the retrieved, emantically indexed textual paragraph; and generating a rank-ordered reult lit of the textual para graph mot emantically related to the at leat one patent claim. 44. The computer-implemented method of claim 23 wherein the creating of the patent earch report comprie: identifying a location of a dicloure in one or more refer ence document retrieved from the earching of the at leat one databae uing the patent-related information; entering an explanation of patentability of at leat one patent claim over the dicloure located in the one or more reference document; and howing of upport for the at leat one patent claim in a pecification of the patent document. 45. The computer-implemented method of claim 44 wherein the howing of upport comprie: emantically indexing a plurality of textual paragraph in the pecification; retrieving the emantically indexed textual paragraph; applying a a earch query the at leat one patent claim to the retrieved, emantically indexed textual paragraph; and generating a rank-ordered reult lit of the textual para graph mot emantically related to the at leat one patent claim. 46. The ytem of claim 42 wherein the cae management ubytem i operative to enable an end-uer to how upport for the at leat one patent claim with one or more annotation in the pecification of the patent document. 47. The ytem of claim 44 wherein the cae management ubytem i operative to enable an end-uer to how upport for the at leat one patent claim with one or more annotation in the pecification of the patent document. 48. A computer-readable medium having intruction tored thereon for performing the method of claim 1. c c c c c