III-CXT-Small: Collaborative Research: REGNET - Information Management and Compliance Assistance for Patent Laws and Regulations

REGNET研究项目建议开发一个信息基础设施，以增强政府法规的获取、检索和透明度，特别是在专利领域。几乎所有的制造和工程产品以及发明和生产这些产品所涉及的过程都需要遵守监管要求。专利法和相关问题既复杂又庞大，可能会造成不成比例的负担，阻碍技术和商业创新，对小企业来说尤其如此。信息技术（IT）有可能减轻和帮助解决许多这些复杂的问题，并增强公众的理解。政府法规现在可以在网上找到。然而，目前大多数在线门户主要是为显示信息而设计的，难以用于进一步的处理。为REGNET提出的信息服务基础设施包括作为基础的存储库，更重要的是，包括定位、合并、比较和分析信息的工具。这种服务基础设施将以一种智能的方式利用现在对公众广泛可用的通信和计算资源。计划完成七个任务：(1)文本解析和存储；(2)半结构化索引存储；(3)解决语义歧义的方法；(4)适用于自动检索相关文件的交叉引用；(5)相关法规文件的比较分析；(6)在线合规协助和政府法规检查；以及(7)需求评估和影响分析。将开发新的和创新的搜索和分析技术，以帮助传播监管数据，并允许查找和比较相关法律和监管信息的多个来源。广泛影响用于法律和监管目的的系统正在迅速发展。将研究此类在线监管系统和合规辅助工具的社会和法律影响，以及它们对监管过程的影响。

The REGNET research project proposes to develop an information infrastructure to enhance the access, retrieval and transparency of government regulations, in particular in the area of patents. Almost all manufacturing and engineered products as well as the processes involved in inventing and producing such products need to comply with regulatory requirements. Patent laws and related issues are complex and voluminous, and can be disproportionately burdensome, hindering technological and business innovations, particularly to small businesses. Information technology (IT) has the potential to mitigate and help solve many of these complicated issues and enhance public understanding.Intellectual MeritGovernment regulations are now available online. However, most of current online portals are primarily designed for displaying the information and are difficult to be used for further processing. The information service infrastructure proposed for REGNET includes repositories as a base and, more importantly, tools to locate, merge, compare, and analyze the information. This service infrastructure will exploit in an intelligent way the communication and computational resources that are now widely available to the public. Seven tasks are planned: (1) textual parsing and storage, (2) semi-structured, indexed storage, (3) means to resolve semantic ambiguities, (4) cross-referencing appropriate for automated retrieval of relevant documents, (5) comparative analysis of related regulatory documents, (6) on-line compliance assistance and checking of governmental regulations, and (7) needs assessment and impact analysis. New and innovative search and analysis techniques will be developed to help disseminate regulatory data and allow finding and comparing multiple sources of related legal and regulatory information.Broad ImpactsIT systems for legal and regulatory purposes are being rapidly developed. The social and legal impacts of such online regulation systems and compliance assistance tools as well as their effects on the regulatory process will be studied.