Archive project

Consortium

• Member + sustainer model (for current ~20 contributors)

• Steering committee for guidance, network, funding

• Division of labor: advice, recruiting, design, testing

Strategy

• Plan for use: Site+service creation, presentation, adoption.

• Knowledge coverage: Perfecting coverage of prior-art + members by subfield

• Impact tracking: search + patent quality, consolidation; existing measures

• Maintenance: infra, code, social, $. Funds from consortium, grants, clients.

Documentation + Federation

• Positioning in the world of prior-art search, patent officers, defensive pubs

• How-to for digitizing, uploading, cleaning up uploads; search, on + offline

Coordination

• Define catalogs of docs and other targets that can be divided + conquered

  • User stories — many gathered, not formally structured

  • Test suites — well defined on Cisco’s side, in google sheets….

  • Milestones — separating + divvying up goals

  • Monitoring — alerts, emails, overview reports

• Merging shared processes + docs into github

Archive website design

Archive design: Uploading, indexing, searching

• Uploader experience workflow design

  • Uploader profile and documents management tools

  • Build user needs doc for USPTO, companies, law firms, individuals

• Uploader/editor workflow - the current bottleneck for the archive.

  • Deleting, editing, merging docs and metadata

  • Design spec, wireframes, to feedback from uploaders.

  • Updated design + features, user test suites for same

• Researcher/searcher experience: for one document, author, uploader.

  • Compare to / borrow from UX for Lens + Google Patents.

• Entity extraction + metadata extraction + indexing (cf LensID)

  • Improve CPC (patent classification) generation

  • [Future] Take advantage of underlaying: easy to iterate over flexible schemas

[Future] Archive services for uploaders: Reports, alerts

• Underlay service: decentralized assertions, storage + provenance

• Automatic indexing: in G!, Lens, WIPO searches. Same for other national patent frameworks. (Japan shares USPTO database, G!P already integrated)

  • Ingest + consolidate small defensive-publication services.

• Patent alert for uploaders: note opportunities for third-party submissions

• Digitization integration: w/ Iron Mountain, et al (or propose scan services)

Future planning

Roadmaps: Technical, UX. Coordination with other patent roadmaps.
Team specs: Design, partnerships.