[Industry] Hunt for Buried Treasures: Extracting Unclaimed Embodiments from Patent Specifications
Chikara Hashimoto, Gautam Kumar, Shuichiro Hashimoto, Jun Suzuki
Industry: Industry Industry Paper
Session 4: Industry (Virtual Poster)
Conference Room: Pier 7&8
Conference Time: July 11, 11:00-12:30 (EDT) (America/Toronto)
Global Time: July 11, Session 4 (15:00-16:30 UTC)
TLDR:
Patent applicants write patent specifications
that describe embodiments of inventions.
Some embodiments are claimed for a patent,
while others may be unclaimed
due to strategic considerations.
Unclaimed embodiments may be extracted by
applicants later and claimed in
continuing applications to
gain a...
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Abstract:
Patent applicants write patent specifications
that describe embodiments of inventions.
Some embodiments are claimed for a patent,
while others may be unclaimed
due to strategic considerations.
Unclaimed embodiments may be extracted by
applicants later and claimed in
continuing applications to
gain advantages over competitors.
Despite being essential for corporate intellectual property (IP) strategies,
unclaimed embodiment extraction is conducted manually,
and little research has been conducted on its automation.
This paper presents a novel task of
unclaimed embodiment extraction (UEE)
and a novel dataset for the task.
Our experiments with Transformer-based models
demonstrated
that the task was challenging as it required
conducting natural language inference on
patent specifications, which consisted of
technical, long, syntactically and semantically
involved sentences.
We release the dataset and code
to foster this new area of research.