Prior-art retrieval is a crucial application of Patent Retrieval aimed to determine the novelty of a new invention. In this scenario patent authors require an exhaustive knowledge of all related patents and the search often involves multiple patent collections across the world, which do not share the same document structure or vocabulary. For this reason, despite of the numerous patent search applications already available, we propose in this paper PatentLight[1] a search tool that offers novel and flexible functionalities based on both fuzzy logic and IR to help users looking for relevant patents here represented as XML documents. We show some examples of the proposed search tool to inquiry the WIPO and USPTO collections in a flexible way.
Marrara, S., Pasi, G. (2015). A flexible tool for cross-collection patent search. In Proceedings of the 6th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop. CEUR-WS.
A flexible tool for cross-collection patent search
Pasi G.
2015
Abstract
Prior-art retrieval is a crucial application of Patent Retrieval aimed to determine the novelty of a new invention. In this scenario patent authors require an exhaustive knowledge of all related patents and the search often involves multiple patent collections across the world, which do not share the same document structure or vocabulary. For this reason, despite of the numerous patent search applications already available, we propose in this paper PatentLight[1] a search tool that offers novel and flexible functionalities based on both fuzzy logic and IR to help users looking for relevant patents here represented as XML documents. We show some examples of the proposed search tool to inquiry the WIPO and USPTO collections in a flexible way.
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