METHOD, DEVICE AND INFORMATION MEDIUM FOR ESTIMATING THE CHANCES AND/OR PROBABLE DATE OF GRANTING A PATENT APPLICATION

摘要

The invention relates to a method for estimating the chances and future date of granting a patent application, which includes: - a step of obtaining, for each patent application of a plurality of patent applications, information representing: a) at least one so-called "criterion" data and b) the intention to grant or not; - a step of determining, on the plurality of patent applications, a correlation between the value of at least one criterion data and the intention to grant; - a step of receiving a candidate patent application identifier; - a step of obtaining criteria data for this candidate patent application, including at least one criterion data for which the determination step has determined a correlation with the intention to grant, - a step of measuring a correlation for the criteria data obtained for the identified patent application and - a step of displaying the correlation measurement.