IBM Develops Patent Quality Index Tool
IBM researchers, including a team from IBM India Research Labs (IBM IRL), have developed a tool — Patent Quality Index — to address the issue of low-quality patents. Using the company’s advanced statistical and data analytics expertise, IBM has created a tool to assist patent applicants, examiners and the public to objectively assess the quality of patent applications and issued patents.
Guruduth Banavar, director of IBM India Research Laboratory, told FC that a quantitative or mathematical way of evaluating patent applications was needed. “This tool can compare the user’s report with all existing applications and give an analysis of its quality,” he said. Currently, the undertaking is at a prototype stage and being tried in multiple studies.
In recent years, low-quality patents — those with uncertain scope or dubious claims to scientific progress or technological innovation — has increased substantially, together with historic backlogs, creating uncertainty around intellectual property rights, and spawning increased speculation and litigation. Banavar said that the initiative hopes to help solve this problem. Source
Guruduth Banavar, director of IBM India Research Laboratory, told FC that a quantitative or mathematical way of evaluating patent applications was needed. “This tool can compare the user’s report with all existing applications and give an analysis of its quality,” he said. Currently, the undertaking is at a prototype stage and being tried in multiple studies.
In recent years, low-quality patents — those with uncertain scope or dubious claims to scientific progress or technological innovation — has increased substantially, together with historic backlogs, creating uncertainty around intellectual property rights, and spawning increased speculation and litigation. Banavar said that the initiative hopes to help solve this problem. Source
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