Patent ID: 6452613
Filing Date: 2002-09-17
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A system for providing an automated assessment of an invention submission, comprising:a user system for providing responses to a series of inquiries regarding the invention submission, wherein the series comprises questions for which there exist selectable responses; and a server system for processing said responses to provide a quantified assessment of said invention submission, wherein the quantified assessment is based on scoring at least some of the responses by assigning weighted values based on said responses, and wherein the server system is further adapted to combine said weighted values to present at least one composite score, wherein the at least one composite score represents an indicia of the likelihood of receiving a patent and an indicia of at least one other metric; wherein said at least one composite score represents an indicia of the value that would be conferred by receiving a patent, the value comprising said at least one other metric; wherein said quantified assessment is prepared before a patent application exists for the invention submission; and whereby said quantified assessment is usable for determining whether a patent application should be prepared.