Patent Law

The following is excerpted from an October 12, 2009 post by Thomas J. Colson at the Securing Innovation blog:

LexisNexis, a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions, today announced the availability of transparent semantic search technology for its full complement of intellectual property (IP) research products ? enabling users to find the most precise and relevant patent search results.

Through a development alliance with Dallas-based Pure Discovery, LexisNexis has become the first provider of legal information services to integrate the power of semantic search technology with familiar Boolean search technology, giving the user greater control over the patent research process via a simple, streamlined user interface that matches their typical daily workflow.

The new semantic search solution from LexisNexis and Pure Discovery, however, overcomes such challenges to accomplish four breakthrough objectives in online search:

• Transparency: Each query is enhanced by the machine intelligence and shown to the user for their complete understanding and engagement.
• Increased control: Not only is the semantic search transparent, but users are in control with the ability to add, delete, increase or decrease the importance of all query words (concepts) in a unique visual query interface called a "querycloud.?
• Fully federated: While LexisNexis maintains one of the largest full-text patent and non-patent literature databases in the world, its semantic search platform can associate semantic searches to virtually any index, whether it resides internally or on the web.
• Scalability: The LexisNexis index includes semantic intelligence from more than 10 million full-text patent documents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office?s patent index, as well as Elsevier journal articles and other documents.

Read the full post here.