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International Workshop on AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems

International Workshop on AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems

International Workshop on AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems

International Workshop on AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems

International Workshop on AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems

AICOL 2015, AICOL 2016, AICOL 2016, AICOL 2017, AICOL 2017: AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems pp 140–156Cite as

Contributions to Modeling Patent Claims When Representing Patent Knowledge

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This paper discusses the modeling of patent claims in ontology based representation of patent information. Our contributions relate to the internal structure of the claims and the use of the all-element rule for patent coverage. Starting from the general template for the structure of the claim, we present contributions to (1) visualization of claims, (2) storing claim information in a web semantics framework, and (3) evaluating claim coverage using Description Logic.

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Acknowledgements

This research was partially funded by Meta-Rule of Law (DER2016-78108-P, Spain). André Reis was supported by Brazilian funding agencies CAPES (Grant BEX 0466/15-8) and CNPq (Grant 312086/2016-4).

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  1. Institute of Law and Technology, Faculty of Law, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Spain

    Simone R. N. Reis & Pompeu Casanovas

  2. Institute of Informatics, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Andre Reis

  3. Cephis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

    Jordi Carrabina

  4. CRC D2D, La Trobe Law School, Bundoora, Melbourne, Australia

    Pompeu Casanovas

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  1. University of Turin, Turin, Italy

    Ugo Pagallo

  2. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Monica Palmirani

  3. La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Pompeu Casanovas

  4. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Giovanni Sartor

  5. Inria - Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée, Sophia Antipolis, France

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Reis, S.R.N., Reis, A., Carrabina, J., Casanovas, P. (2018). Contributions to Modeling Patent Claims When Representing Patent Knowledge. In: Pagallo, U., Palmirani, M., Casanovas, P., Sartor, G., Villata, S. (eds) AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. AICOL AICOL AICOL AICOL AICOL 2015 2016 2016 2017 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10791. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00178-0_9

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