Development Prior-art Data Search (PDS) system

In research and development works, prior-art, that is the present knowledge in the field plays a crucial role in taking various decisions and approaches in handling the problem on hand; and this is especially of value in allowing or disallowing claims on intellectual property creations by the authors and permitting their registrations in respective countries or globally. Since the prior-art information are reported in various sources and is usually a huge data spread in various formats and forms, physically accessing the data and making determinations on deciding on eligibility of submitted works for awarding Intellectual Property (IP) certification by concerned IP offices and utilization of developments made ( at users and industries) becomes very cumbersome, time consuming and could in some cases nearly difficult to achieve with reliable picture on status of prior-art, the new works generated and the differentiators in these. Such scenarios arise in cases of Patent and Integrated Circuit (IC) Layout Design (LD) filings, deciding and fighting infringements/piracy and catching the violators etc. The disadvantages cited in lack of coherent data as a one stop source make it imperative for developing tools and technologies at the places of IP offices and creators of IP works that can substantially aid in evaluating the various development works submitted and also on utilization of the knowledge generated, the matters of protection of created works, possible commercialization and other steps etc.