III-CXT-Small: Collaborative Research: REGNET - Information Management and Compliance Assistance for Patent Laws and Regulations

III-CXT-Small：合作研究：REGNET - 专利法律法规的信息管理和合规协助

• 批准号: 0811460
• 负责人: Kincho Law
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0811460&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: III; CXT; Small; Collaborative; Research

The REGNET research project proposes to develop an information infrastructure to enhance the access, retrieval and transparency of government regulations, in particular in the area of patents. Almost all manufacturing and engineered products as well as the processes involved in inventing and producing such products need to comply with regulatory requirements. Patent laws and related issues are complex and voluminous, and can be disproportionately burdensome, hindering technological and business innovations, particularly to small businesses. Information technology (IT) has the potential to mitigate and help solve many of these complicated issues and enhance public understanding.Intellectual MeritGovernment regulations are now available online. However, most of current online portals are primarily designed for displaying the information and are difficult to be used for further processing. The information service infrastructure proposed for REGNET includes repositories as a base and, more importantly, tools to locate, merge, compare, and analyze the information. This service infrastructure will exploit in an intelligent way the communication and computational resources that are now widely available to the public. Seven tasks are planned: (1) textual parsing and storage, (2) semi-structured, indexed storage, (3) means to resolve semantic ambiguities, (4) cross-referencing appropriate for automated retrieval of relevant documents, (5) comparative analysis of related regulatory documents, (6) on-line compliance assistance and checking of governmental regulations, and (7) needs assessment and impact analysis. New and innovative search and analysis techniques will be developed to help disseminate regulatory data and allow finding and comparing multiple sources of related legal and regulatory information.Broad ImpactsIT systems for legal and regulatory purposes are being rapidly developed. The social and legal impacts of such online regulation systems and compliance assistance tools as well as their effects on the regulatory process will be studied.

REGNET 研究项目提议开发一个信息基础设施，以增强政府法规的访问、检索和透明度，特别是在专利领域。几乎所有制造和工程产品以及发明和生产此类产品所涉及的流程都需要遵守法规要求。专利法和相关问题复杂而繁琐，可能会带来过大的负担，阻碍技术和商业创新，特别是对小企业而言。信息技术 (IT) 具有缓解和帮助解决许多此类复杂问题并增强公众理解的潜力。智力优点政府法规现已在线提供。然而，目前大多数在线门户主要是为了展示信息而设计的，很难用于进一步处理。为 REGNET 提出的信息服务基础设施包括作为基础的存储库，更重要的是，包括定位、合并、比较和分析信息的工具。该服务基础设施将以智能方式利用目前公众广泛使用的通信和计算资源。计划了七项任务：（1）文本解析和存储，（2）半结构化索引存储，（3）解决语义歧义的方法，（4）适合自动检索相关文档的交叉引用，（5）比较相关监管文件分析；（6）政府法规在线合规协助与核查；（7）需求评估与影响分析。将开发新的创新搜索和分析技术，以帮助传播监管数据并允许查找和比较相关法律和监管信息的多个来源。广泛影响用于法律和监管目的的IT系统正在快速开发。将研究此类在线监管系统和合规援助工具的社会和法律影响及其对监管过程的影响。