Automating the search for a patent's prior art with a full text similarity search.

ABSTRACT: More than ever, technical inventions are the symbol of our society's advance. Patents guarantee their creators protection against infringement. For an invention being patentable, its novelty and inventiveness have to be assessed. Therefore, a search for published work that describes similar inventions to a given patent application needs to be performed. Currently, this so-called search for prior art is executed with semi-automatically composed keyword queries, which is not only time consuming, but also prone to errors. In particular, errors may systematically arise by the fact that different keywords for the same technical concepts may exist across disciplines. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed, where the full text of a given patent application is compared to existing patents usi

SUBMITTER: Helmers L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6398827 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature