Patent ID: 7983928

Claim:
A method of operating an information service to facilitate preparation of intellectual property documents suitable for filing in one or more of plural target jurisdictions, the method comprising: registering for each of plural associates, at least one target jurisdiction and a computer readable encoding of a plurality of form documents corresponding to target jurisdiction and associate specifications therefore wherein the form documents include fields defined for completion of matter-specific information; distributing at least a portion of the form documents to an originating filer for use in preparation of the intellectual property documents suitable for filing by respective ones of the associates, wherein the distribution is at least one of (i) responsive to selection by the originating filer of one or more of the target jurisdictions and, for each selected target jurisdiction, a respective one of the associates, and (ii) periodic supply to the originating filer of the computer readable encoding of at least a portion of the form documents for each of plural associates; receiving filing documents from the originating filer, wherein the filing documents comprise at least a portion of the form documents completed with matter-specific information from the originating filer; and automatically determining, by a computer, responsive to the filing documents, respective associates for receipt of the filing documents, and forwarding the filing documents to the respective associates.