STTR Phase I: Assisted Invention Disclosure Tool

STTR 第一阶段：辅助发明公开工具

• 批准号: 1521398
• 负责人: Eric Leininger
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: PatentDive
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1521398&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STTR; Phase; Assisted; Invention; Disclosure

This STTR Phase I proposal is for the development of a web-based software tool that dramatically reduces the time and cost of drafting a U.S. patent application. Inventors and small companies having no background in patent law and patent-application drafting strategies struggle with properly describing their inventions. Overcoming this lack of understanding on the part of the inventor requires a great deal of one-on-one educational training with a patent professional in order to draft a quality patent application. However, engaging a patent professional is costly and time consuming. This proposal outlines a research and development strategy to create and integrate effective game-based education tools into an existing assisted invention disclosure prototype. Through game-based learning, inventors acquire a basic understanding of patent law and patent application drafting strategies, while simultaneously disclosing details of their invention. The invention disclosure prototype organizes and structures the data provided, then transforms the data into narrative sentences that are then formatted according to the rules of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The proposed tool will reduce barriers to obtaining patent protection, allow greater participation in the patent system and lead to increased innovation and commercialization beneficial to the overall U.S. economy.This STTR Phase I proposal is to develop a game-based educational module to augment an existing assisted invention disclosure tool. For the game-based learning module of this proposal, a curriculum covering fundamental patent law and patent drafting strategy will be created to educate inventors. From this curriculum, a gamified tutorial will engage the inventors throughout the disclosure process. The proposed curriculum will educate inventors about fundamental patent rules and teach regulations and concepts related to strategic application drafting. While inventors are interacting with the gamified tutorial, the assisted invention disclosure tool simultaneously extracts invention details or elements directly from the inventor. The existing prototype processes data using a rules engine into narrative sentences. The proposal also refines the existing data structure of the assisted invention disclosure tool by adding a common language component. An ontology will also be created to identify patent specific preparation requirements for a variety of technical arts in order to scale the tool for use among all U.S. Patent and Trademark classes. This proposal empowers inventors with the knowledge and tools to draft U.S. patent applications which will fuel increased innovation and commercialization.

这份STTR第一阶段提案是为了开发一个基于网络的软件工具，该工具可以极大地减少起草美国专利申请的时间和成本。发明家和没有专利法和专利申请起草策略背景的小公司很难恰当地描述他们的发明。为了克服发明人的这种缺乏理解的问题，需要与专利专业人员进行大量的一对一教育培训，以起草高质量的专利申请。然而，聘请专利专业人士既昂贵又耗时。该提案概述了一项研究和开发战略，以创建有效的基于游戏的教育工具，并将其整合到现有的辅助发明披露原型中。通过基于游戏的学习，发明者对专利法和专利申请起草策略有了基本的了解，同时披露了他们发明的细节。本发明公开原型对提供的数据进行组织和结构，然后将数据转换为叙述性句子，然后根据美国专利商标局的规则进行格式化。拟议的工具将减少获得专利保护的障碍，允许更多人参与专利制度，并导致更多的创新和商业化，对美国整体经济有利。这项STTR第一阶段建议是开发一个基于游戏的教育模块，以增强现有的辅助发明披露工具。对于本提案的基于游戏的学习模块，将创建一门涵盖专利法基础和专利起草战略的课程，以教育发明者。从这个课程中，一个游戏化的教程将让发明者在整个披露过程中参与进来。拟议的课程将向发明者传授基本专利规则，并教授与战略申请起草有关的法规和概念。当发明人与游戏化的教程交互时，辅助发明公开工具同时直接从发明人提取发明细节或元素。现有的原型使用规则引擎将数据处理成叙述性句子。该提案还通过增加公共语言部分，改进了辅助发明公开工具的现有数据结构。还将创建一个本体，以确定各种技术艺术的专利特定准备要求，以便将该工具扩展到所有美国专利和商标类别中使用。这项提议赋予发明者知识和工具来起草美国专利申请，这将推动更多的创新和商业化。