Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for processing of patents. Similar words to each word in a claim may be found to words in a patent document. Often the words of the claims may be searched for in a cited reference to flag to the practitioner an area of interest that may contain a paragraph or sentence that may disclose that feature of a claim. An automated method of searching for similar words of a claim that notify a practitioner of an area of patentable interest is presented in some embodiments of this invention.
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