SBIR Phase I: Project to Create a Machine Intelligence-based System for Innovative Organizations to Assess, Manage and License Intellectual Property

SBIR第一阶段项目旨在帮助释放美国的知识产权存量，将想法转化为产品，服务和疗法，以造福人类。利用先进的机器智能技术、语义网络技术和基于语义的可视化技术，从当前相对非结构化的专利数据集中提取意义和上下文，可以显著提高国家对已经开发的知识产权的理解，更重要的是，专利与新开发的知识产权实例之间的关系。拟议的制度可有助于查明其他创新领域以及创新未得到充分利用的领域。美国和世界各地未充分利用的知识产权存量对社会来说是一个重大的价值损失。 该系统还将通过确定开放的创新领域，帮助推动未来的创新。该系统的一个重要好处是使更多人了解联邦资助的、大学开发的技术获得许可和投入使用的机会。该项目的更广泛/商业影响将是加强美国的创新。在研发和专利保护方面的支出很大，而且还在增长。2011年，全球年度研发支出总额超过1.333万亿美元，美国年度研发支出约占全球总额的32%，为4270亿美元，2012年估计为4360亿美元。投资于研发的创新组织将其研发预算的大约3-4%用于专利费用，以保护该知识产权，2012年美国的知识产权支出估计为174.4亿美元。作为这一总额的一部分，大约10%或17.4亿美元将用于知识产权信息类别，涵盖有关知识产权的信息。在这一类别中，估计有20%的知识产权信息预算将用于在线知识产权服务，特别是在线访问，高于2003年的约5%，因此2012年在线知识产权服务工具的目标市场为3.488亿美元。该项目通过使创新组织能够可视化其知识产权的背景和竞争格局，将使人们能够做出更好的选择，并使知识产权更容易获得许可，以促进美国的创新。

This SBIR Phase I project proposes to help unleash America's stock of intellectual property, converting ideas into products, services and therapies to benefit humanity. Using advanced machine-intelligence techniques, semantic-networking technologies and semantic-based visualization to extract meaning and context from the current, relatively unstructured data set of issued patents stands to significantly enhance the nation's understanding of intellectual property that has been developed and, importantly, the relationships between patents and instances of newly-developed intellectual property. The proposed system could help identify other areas of innovation as well as areas where innovations have been underutilized. The stock of underutilized IP in America, and around the world, represents a significant loss of value to society. The system will also help to fuel future innovations by identifying open areas for innovation. An important benefit of the system is to make more widely known the opportunities for Federally funded, university-developed technologies to be licensed and put to use.The broader/commercial impact of this project will be to enhance Innovation in America. Spending on R&D and patent protection is significant and growing. Global annual R&D spending totaled over $1.333 Trillion in 2011 and annual U.S. spending on R&D was roughly 32% of the global total at $427 billion and is estimated at $436 billion for 2012. Innovative organizations investing in R&D invest roughly 3-4% of their R&D budget on patent expenses to protect that IP with an estimated U.S. IP expenditure of $17.44 billion in 2012. As part of this total, approximately 10% or $1.74B will be spent on the IP Information category that covers information about intellectual property. Of this category, an estimated 20% of the IP Information budget will be spent with Online IP Services, accessed specifically online, up from approximately 5% in 2003, resulting in a target market of $348.8 million for Online IP Services tools in 2012. This project, by enabling innovative organizations to visualize the context and competitive landscape of their intellectual property, will enable better choices and make it easier for IP to be licensed to enhance innovation in America.