Using design database structures to characterize freedom-to-operate in a design space: A legal case study
Using design database structures to characterize freedom-to-operate in a design space: A legal case study
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使用设计数据库结构来表征设计空间中的自由操作：法律案例研究
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2013
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Charles H. Dougherty
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Katherine K. Fu;J. Dilmore;J. Cagan;Charles H. Dougherty
新奇，特别是自由经营（FTO），评估是推出和申请专利的新产品的关键步骤。我们比较了由专利律师和化学和制药技术专家进行的传统FTO分析与计算方法的结果。计算方法发现的结构形式的一组专利使用文本衍生的相似性数据，创建一个潜在的相关的现有技术的描述空间。一个测试配方的制造新的药物开发的FTO和计算分析，并确定了计算方法的优势和改进的领域。FTO分析耗时且劳动密集型，结果表明，随着进一步发展，该计算方法可以帮助专利律师更快、更新鲜地了解现有技术领域，甚至指出与拟议新产品最相关的专利。需要改进的领域是应用领域中计算方法的固有知识，以及找到专利的哪些部分导致空间的最准确表示，以及进一步的自动化和效率。
Novelty, and specifically freedom-to-operate (FTO), assessment is crucial step in launching and patenting a new product. We compare a traditional FTO analysis performed by a patent lawyer and expert in chemistry and pharmaceutical technology with the outcomes of a computational method. The computational method discovers the structural form of a set of patents using a text-derived similarity data, creating a descriptive space of the potentially relevant prior art. A test formulation of a fabricated new pharmaceutical drug was developed for the FTO and computational analysis, and strengths and areas for improvement of the computational method were identified. FTO analysis is time consuming and labor intensive, and results indicated that with further development, the computational method could aid patent lawyers in getting a faster and fresh snapshot of the space of prior art, and even point to patents most relevant to a proposed new product. Areas for improvement are intrinsic knowledge of the computational method in the field of application, and finding which sections of patents lead to most accurate representations of the space, and further automation and efficiency.