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Comment by zalzane | Hacker News Reader

project idea: machine learning program that decrypts legalese to find similar patents

i wonder if uspo would be interested in licensing it if it was effective enough

Maybe some clever patent attorneys already have the opposite. Some encryption tool:

  <Obvious-little-Idea> => <Converter> => <Awesome-sounding-invention>

In a way yes, it's called claims drafting.

One of the jobs of the patent attorney is to claim the widest possible area that's supported by the invention disclosed in the application for a patent. You don't have a calculator, but "calculating means" which could encompass many different facilities - chemical, mechanical, electronic, quantum, ...

It wouldn't even require machine learnign imho.

From the first example:

generating, using a processor = calculating

a plurality of images = images

clusters = groups

It's more of a translation software than machine learning.

Perhaps the translation software could suggest 3-4 variations of the legalese sentence and allow users to vote for the best translation?

Isn't translation software trained with machine learning?

If lots of people are helping to translate, it could be. It depends.

I would say, that the USPTO is naturally not interested in such stuff. They will have all possible explanations, but never tell you the one true thing: The USPTO is earning more money on successful patents than on neglected ones.

You should totally patent that idea!

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