University of Hertfordshire

Evaluation of a Visual Tool for Early Patent Infringement Detection During Design

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IS_EUD_2019_paper14_
Accepted author manuscript, 1.37 MB, PDF document

Alessio Malizia
Salvatore Sorce
Vito Gentile
Mark Atherton
David Harrison
Pingfei Jiang

Original language	English
Title of host publication	End-User Development - 7th International Symposium, IS-EUD 2019, Proceedings
Editors	Alessio Malizia, Stefano Valtolina, Anders Morch, Alan Serrano, Andrew Stratton
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	166-173
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-24781-2
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-24780-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24781-2_12
Publication status	Published - 12 Jul 2019
Event	Seventh International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2019) - College Lane Campus, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom Duration: 10 Jul 2019 → 12 Jul 2019 http://www.iseud.net/2019/

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	LNCS, volume 11553

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	11553 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	Seventh International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2019)
Country	United Kingdom
City	Hatfield
Period	10/07/19 → 12/07/19
Internet address	http://www.iseud.net/2019/

Abstract

Patent infringement detection usually implies research among documents in different forms, in both natural and unstructured language, often involving a lot of human resources and time. In order to ease this patent check process, we previously presented a visual tool to be used by designers themselves at any stage of the design process, providing them with useful and reliable information for deciding whether to steer their design away from potential patent infringements. In this work, we report on a usability study carried out on such a tool with 21 professional de- signers from industry in the field of mechanical engineering. The outcome of our study shows that our tool is very well accepted by designers, and felt useful and helpful even by legal experts.

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