Quality enhancement of patent acquisition management

摘要

An implementation of a technology, described herein, for managing the preparation and prosecution of patent applications and quality management of the same. This technology acts as a catalyst or facilitator for the patrons of a service using such technology. It can handle some or all of the functions related patent acquisition, and enhance the quality of the resulting patents. Such functions may include invention disclosure gathering; encouraging invention disclosure; patent application drafting, filing, prosecution, and handling issuance and maintenance fees; and managing all of the above. It facilitates quality enhancement of resulting patents by encouraging more invention disclosures by providing a reliable, automated mechanism for rewards such action and by providing information (related to potential interferences) that helps patrons may good business decisions early in the patenting process to same time and money. It does some or all of these functions while maintaining a privileged double-blind information flow. This abstract itself is not intended to limit the scope of this patent. The scope of the present invention is pointed out in the appending claims.