Patent technology requirement evaluation and recommendation are critical for patent strategy, patent man- agement, and patent usage in an organization. This paper proposes a patent technology evaluation and recommenda- tion agent based on a soft-computing approach to enhance patent expansibility and technology transfer. First, we inves- tigate the relationship between patent technology and patent owners, such as academic institutes or organizations, and
integrate the collected patent data with the characteristics of organizations to establish a popular patent ontology for gen- eral academic institutes or organizations. Then, the patent’s suitability for a specific organization is determined based on concepts extracted using Chinese Knowledge Information
Processing. Next, we refer to the Japan Patent Office evalu- ation index and intellectual property quotient to describe the knowledge base and rule base of the patent quality evaluation agent by using fuzzy markup language (FML). A comprehen- sive patent quality evaluation mechanism is implemented,
and the genetic algorithm is adopted to improve the per- formance of the proposed agent. Additionally, the patent requirement level evaluation mechanism infers the patent requirement level according to the basic information of an organization. Finally, we present a novel FML-based patent requirement recommendation agent to recommend a patent for an organization by considering the suitability of the patent technology for such an organization, the results of the com- prehensive patent quality evaluation process, and the results of the evaluation of the demander’s patent requirements. According to the results, the proposed agent is feasible for patent recommendation. In the future, we will combine an intelligent robot with the GFML agent to assist humans or organizations in recommending an appropriate patent.

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