FSTP – Mathematical Assessment of ETCIs ’ Quality

1. FSTP – Mathematical Assessment of ETCIs’ Quality GIPC 2017, Delhi, January, 2017 Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernd Wegner TU Berlin / TELES PRI GmbH

2. Mathematical knowledge management • Knowledge management in mathematics. • Application of mathematical methods, mathematical reasoning to knowledge management in other fields . • Improve representation, precision and decidability. • Analyzing ETCIs is one of these fields.

3. Quantification of information • SPL formulates a combination of several principal concerns. • Separation SPL and relevant precedents into elementary concerns is a basic requirement for testing ETCIs to satisfy SPL. • “Elementary” means “cannot be disaggregated in a reasonable way”. • The FSTP-Test is based on such quantification of SPL – independent of the ETCIs.

4. Quantification of information • Quantification of an ETCI is obtained by applying a knowledge representation transformation to the specification of the ETCI. • Subdivision of the ETCI into elementary concepts leading to creative concepts representing the creative thoughts of the inventor. • Having passed the FSTP-Test creative concepts will be extended to inventive concepts by adding justifications.

5. Original level • Concepts are given by their truth sets taken from their model space. • They are accompanied by their mirror predicates representing the properties of an ETCI. • O-level: Fix the MUIs in the specification of an ETCI related to the identification of compound and elementary concepts. • This relation enables to associate disclosures with concepts.

6. Compound concepts • First step of the KRT: • Identify the elements of the ETCI. • Combine each element with a concept still being a compound of smaller concepts. • This is the A-level of concepts (aggregated level). • In a later procedure the creative part of the A-level will be obtained as conjunction of the related creative concepts on the E-level. .

7. Elementary concepts • Second step of the KRT: • Disaggregate the compound concepts into their corresponding elementary concepts. • “Elementary” means “cannot be disaggregated in a reasonable way”. • The A-level will be recovered by conjunction of the concepts from the E-level. • This is represented by mathematical procedures on truth sets.

8. Creative concepts • Distinguish between creative and non-creative elementary concepts. • Elementary concepts belonging to pertinent skill are non-creative. • Continuing with the claim construction may qualify some apparently creative concepts as non-creative.

9. Prior art and pertinent skil • Prior art is given by a set of potentially comparable CIs. • Comparison with prior art is based on a generative set of independent elementary creative concepts of the given ETCI. • The anticipation resp. non-anticipation of these concepts is stored in a so-called A/N-matrix. • A special way of counting the Ns in this matrix leads to the semantic/creative height of the ETCI over the given prior art.

10. Scope of an ETCI • The determination of the scope of an ETCI is based on a generative set of creative elementary concepts of a CI. • Mathematically said: Consider the (set theoretic) product of the TSs of the K concepts in such a generative set, and distinguish as scope of the ETCI the K-tuples representing an elementary realization tuple related to an embodiment of the CI. • In simple words: The scope consists of all combinations of truth values of the concepts above being related to an embodiment of the ETCI.

11. Preemptivity • If the scopes of two CIs have some combination in common, we consider this as a violation of one CI by the other one. • Exemptions: abstract ideas, natural laws and natural phenomena generally are not patent eligible. • Avoidance of unlimited preemption. • Modifying the scope by considering an application concept in addition will bind the ETCI to the application.

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