Developing a Comprehensive Patent Related Information Retrieval Tool

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, Vol. 6, No. 2, August 2011

Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 10-12

16 Pages Posted: 13 Feb 2011 Last revised: 19 Jun 2011

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Jay P. Kesan

University of Illinois College of Law

Hang Yu

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Siddharth Taduri

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Gloria Lau

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Kincho H. Law

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Date Written: April 1, 2010

Abstract

In recent years, there has been a massive growth of regulatory and related information available online. This information is distributed across many different domains creating a problem for accessing and managing this data. This paper proposes a framework to access information across two such domains – patents and court cases. The framework is designed to boost the value of a set of patents based on information available in court cases by identifying and cross-referencing mutual information in the two domains. We test our framework by constructing a use case involving the hormone erythropoietin. A corpus of 1150 patents (including 135 closely related patents) and 30 court cases is gathered. Challenges associated with such integration and future plans are briefly discussed.

Keywords: Patents, Court cases, USPTO, Search, Information Retrieval

Suggested Citation

Kesan, Jay P. and Yu, Hang and Taduri, Siddharth and Lau, Gloria and Law, Kincho H., Developing a Comprehensive Patent Related Information Retrieval Tool (April 1, 2010). Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, Vol. 6, No. 2, August 2011, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 10-12, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1760115

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Hang Yu

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ( email )

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Champaign, IL Champaign 61820
United States

Siddharth Taduri

Civil and Environmental Engineering ( email )

Stanford, CA 94305
United States

Gloria Lau

Civil and Environmental Engineering ( email )

Stanford, CA 94305
United States

Kincho H. Law

affiliation not provided to SSRN ( email )

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