SYSTEM AND METHODS OF RELATING TRADEMARKS AND PATENT DOCUMENTS
In an embodiment, a computer-readable medium embodies instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a computing system to perform operations including automatically defining one or more associations between a trademark record and a patent document and storing the one or more associations as mappings between trademarks and patent documents.
1 . A computer-readable medium embodying instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a computing system to perform operations comprising:
automatically identifying one or more associations between a trademark record and a patent document; and
storing the one or more associations as mappings between trademarks and patent documents.
2 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein automatically defining one or more associations comprises identifying words matches between selected words of a description of goods and services of the trademark record and terms within the patent document.
3 . The computer-readable medium of claim 2 , wherein identifying word matches comprises using latent semantic analysis to determine occurrences of words from the description of goods and services within text of the patent document.
4 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further embodying instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the computing system to perform operations further comprising:
calculating a weight for each of the one or more associations; and
storing the weight with each of the one or more associations.
5 . The computer-readable medium of claim 1 , further embodying instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the computing system to perform operations further comprising extracting data from each trademark record of a plurality of trademark records.
6 . The computer-readable medium of claim 5 , wherein automatically defining one or more associations between a trademark record and a patent document comprises automatically defining one or more associations between each trademark record and one or more patent documents of a plurality of patent documents.
7 . A method of associating trademarks and patent documents, the method comprising:
extracting data from a trademark record of a plurality of trademark records using an extract-transform-load module of a correlation system;
automatically defining one or more associations between the trademark record and patent documents of a plurality of patent documents based on the extracted data using mapping logic of the correlation system; and
storing the defined one or more associations as mappings within a plurality of mappings between trademark records and patent documents in a computer-readable memory.
8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein before storing the defined one or more associations, the method further comprises calculating a weight for each of the one or more associations.
9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein calculating the weight comprises:
determining a term frequency and an inverse document frequency for each word of the trademark record; and
calculating the weight for each association as a function of the term frequency and the inverse document frequency.
10 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the weight represents a numerical value indicating a relevance of an association based on a word match between a word from the trademark record and corresponding words from each of the patent documents.
11 . The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
receiving a query from a user device;
retrieving search results from one or more data sources based on the query;
using the plurality of mappings between trademark records and patent documents to retrieve related information.
12 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
generating an interface including the search results and the related information; and
transmitting the interface to the user device.
13 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the query comprises a patent search, wherein the search results include one or more patents, and wherein the related information comprises data from at least one trademark record associated with a respective at least one patent document of the search results.
14 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the query comprises a trademark search, wherein the search results include one or more trademark records, and wherein the related information comprises data from at least one patent document associated with a respective at least one trademark record of the search results.
15 . A method of relating trademarks and patent documents, the method comprising:
automatically identifying associations between trademark records of a plurality of trademark records and documents of a plurality of documents using mapping logic of a correlation system; and
storing the identified associations within a plurality of mappings in a memory, each mapping including one or more associations between a trademark record and a document.
16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein automatically identifying one or more associations comprises:
extracting data including words and numerical values from each trademark record of the plurality of trademark records;
determining a data type associated with each word and each numerical value;
selecting a mapping technique from a plurality of mapping techniques based on the determined data type; and
applying the selected mapping technique using the mapping logic to automatically identify the one or more associations.
17 . The method of claim 16 , further comprising:
selecting a first mapping technique when the extracted data is a word corresponding to a name of an individual or of a company; and
selecting a second mapping technique when the extracted data is a word extracted from a description of goods and services of a trademark record.
18 . The computer-readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the plurality of mapping techniques includes at least one of latent semantic analysis, Naive-Bayes classification, and brute-force analysis.
19 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the plurality of documents comprise issued patents and published patent applications.
20 . The method of claim 19 , further comprising:
receiving, at a search system having access to the memory, a patent document number from a user device;
retrieving search results related to the patent number using a pre-defined goal-oriented query;
retrieving trademark data related to one or more of the search results based on the plurality of mappings; and
transmitting a graphical user interface including the search results and including the retrieved trademark data to the user device.
21 . The method of claim 20 , wherein the pre-defined goal-oriented query comprises one of a patent invalidity search to identify potentially invalidating prior art references and a patent licensing search to identify potential licensees of a patent.
22 . The method of claim 19 , further comprising:
receiving, at a search system having access to the memory, a keyword query related to the plurality of trademark records from a user device;
retrieving trademark records related to the keyword query;
retrieving patent documents related to the retrieved trademark records based on the plurality of mappings; and
transmitting an interface including the retrieved trademark records and data related to the retrieved patent documents to the user device.
23 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising:
automatically extracting text from a trademark document of the plurality of trademark records; and
selectively searching portions of each document of the plurality of documents using the extracted text to identify matches.