Intellectual Property Compliance in Technical Systems
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Modern technical systems incorporate hundreds of patents, standards, and software packages—each with distinct intellectual property requirements. A typical enterprise software system may include over 100 third-party libraries, while a telecommunications product might implement 50+ technical standards and thousands of patent claims.
The fundamental challenge lies in maintaining compliance across rapidly evolving systems while managing the computational overhead of continuous IP verification.
This page brings together solutions from recent research—including machine learning approaches for patent-standard mapping, automated license detection in CI/CD pipelines, and real-time compliance monitoring systems. These and other approaches help organizations systematically track and verify intellectual property obligations during development.
1. Automated System for Identifying Relevant Technical Standards Using Machine Learning and Vector Combination
John MacLaren Walsh, 2021
An automated system that uses machine learning to determine relevant technical standards for a patent. The system converts both the patent and technical standards into reduced feature vectors and combines them. A machine learning algorithm, trained on labeled data, scores the similarity of the combined vectors to identify the most relevant technical standards.
2. Automated License Detection and Verification System for Software Development Packages
Pivotal Software, Inc., 2020
License compliance management system for software development that automatically detects and verifies licenses in software packages during rapid CI/CD development processes. The system scans software packages for library dependencies and their declared licenses. It then analyzes the source code for indicators of implicit licenses. By comparing declared and detected licenses, it identifies verified licenses and conflicting/missing licenses. This automated analysis allows real-time tracking and resolution of license compliance as software packages are updated.
The development of a strong and inventive IT landscape is reliant on intellectual property and standards. A better and more dependable technical future can be achieved by the tech sector by making use of these developments to promote innovation and collaboration.
