Patent Law

Jacob Zoarets, founder and CTO of Transformer Software Ltd, wrote to me today to describe his Israel-based start-up company.  He founded the Company eight years ago. Transformer is a technology oriented company that focuses its efforts on building a semantic parsing system based on a cutting edge linguistic framework developed at Tel Aviv University.

Transformer has recognized the problem that exists in the patent search market, that is, an accurate semantic parsing system that can actually "understand" or represent written English texts in a well formed XML structure. The Company focused its semantic search capabilities to resolve the problems of patent searching and built a semantic search engine dedicated only to the patent market called Setrue Semantic Patent Search Engine.  Currently the engine contains patents and patent applications from the USPTO, EPO with weekly updates and more databases will be acquired in the near future.

Setrue Semantic Patent Search system is a professional search system with features that include:

1. Natural language query capabilities.
2. Query auto-complete suggestions.
3. Detailed class directory structure enabling a one click segmentation of search results to a specific patent class.
4. Dynamic clustering of search results by classes
5. Dynamic clustering of search results by years
6. Dynamic clustering of search results by assignees.
7. Similar patents segmentation.
8. Dynamic weighting of search terms
9. Highlighting of search terms in documents
10. A well formed tabbed patent representation
11. Detailed advanced search capabilities.
12. Dynamic list of law firms specialized in the field of the user's query filtered by expertise and the user's geographic location proximity.
13. Set of professional services maintained by Setrue's team of expert lawyers and law firms.

Setrue's vision is to strengthen the online connection among inventors, entrepreneurs and companies and the professional IP service providers like law firms and individual attorneys. Setrue's business model is not based on Google advertisements, but instead on dividing its potential target audience into two groups:

1. The professional audience including; law firms, private lawyers, patent search agencies, litigation lawyers and corporations that will be asked to acquire an attractive license deal that will include:

• A commercial license to use the search system and all its features.
• A targeted advertisement that would appear next to queries involving the professional's expertise.
• A redirection of patent services requested by inventors.

2. The private inventors, entrepreneurs and companies that will have access to:

• Free usage of a professional system.
• Services offered by the site's professionals.
• Professionals' sites specialized in the areas of interest to the inventors and geographically close.

Try out the beta site and post your comments here.