BERT based freedom to operate patent analysis

• Tác giả: André Bodmer, Michael Freunek
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 331.891 Contracts and related topics
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2021
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 166884

Tóm tắt

In this paper we present a method to apply BERT to freedom to operate patent analysis and patent searches. According to the method, BERT is fine-tuned by training patent descriptions to the independent claims. Each description represents an invention which is protected by the corresponding claims. Such a trained BERT could be able to identify or order freedom to operate relevant patents based on a short description of an invention or product. We tested the method by training BERT on the patent class G06T1/00 and applied the trained BERT on five inventions classified in G06T1/60, described via DOCDB abstracts. The DOCDB abstract are available on ESPACENET of the European Patent Office.