Abstract
Here is discussed in the manner of a review the nature and uses of information measures in the discipline of patenting. From one perspective, the information content in a patent diminishes rapidly as the broadness of the claims increases. Claims made by Markush representations facilitate the quantification of that. The equations will approach yielding zero information if a massive number of chemical themes were implied. Importantly, a more detailed examination of these equations have implications that allow discussion of various aspects of novelty, reasonable consistency with a specific purpose, and perhaps even how many arguments and counterarguments there should be between examiner and assignee.
Highlights
Information from patentsBy serving to protect intellectual property in exchange for disclosing new insight and data for the benefit of science and engineering, patents are well recognized to be a rich information source [1]
Provision of software and associated services relevant to patent analytics is an industry in itself [10,11,12,13]. the main problem is the relevant, prevalent, and perennial one of what is meant by the similarity of compounds
The initial aim of our project was to provide complementary tools to support patent based chemoinformatics systems developed by our colleagues [15,18]
Summary
By serving to protect intellectual property in exchange for disclosing new insight and data for the benefit of science and engineering, patents are well recognized to be a rich information source [1]. Patents are of value to science by helping define what is potentially novel by what is not covered, and preventing wastage of time and effort in “reinventing the wheel”. Provision of software and associated services relevant to patent analytics is an industry in itself [10,11,12,13]. Fisanick W (1990) The Chemical Abstracts Service Generic Chemical (Markush) Structure Storage and Retrieval Capability.
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