跨语言专利保护与起草概述
Securing patent protection across countries requires drafting claims separately for each national patent office, in the relevant language and according to its legal and stylistic conventions. Patent claims can therefore differ across languages and jurisdictions because of translation, target-office drafting practices, and prosecution-stage changes.
问题定义与任务建模
We formulate cross-lingual patent drafting as generating plausible candidate claim sets for a specified target language, jurisdiction, and prosecution stage from a source claim set in another language. The task models jurisdiction- and stage-specific transformations beyond content-preserving translation.
数据集构建与配置
We construct a large-scale Japanese-English dataset by linking Japan Patent Office (JPO) and United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) records through 884,179 Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)-derived patent families. Across six released configurations, these families yield 4,067,168 directional claim-set instances; four core configurations form the main benchmark.
实验与结果
Commercial machine translation and zero- and few-shot prompting capture part of the task, while supervised adaptation provides the strongest overall baseline, showing that task-specific patterns can be learned from linked cross-jurisdictional claim sets.