3 papers
cs.CL2026
Is It Novel and Why? Fine-Grained Patent Novelty Prediction Based on Passage Retrieval
Valentin Knappich, Anna Hätty, Simon Razniewski +1
Novelty assessment is a critical yet complex task in the examination process for patent acceptance, requiring examiners to determine whether an invention is disclosed in a prior ar…
cs.CL2025
PEDANTIC: A Dataset for the Automatic Examination of Definiteness in Patent Claims
Valentin Knappich, Annemarie Friedrich, Anna Hätty +1
Patent claims define the scope of protection for an invention. If there are ambiguities in a claim, it is rejected by the patent office. In the US, this is referred to as indefinit…
cs.CL2025
Pap2Pat: Benchmarking Outline-Guided Long-Text Patent Generation with Patent-Paper Pairs
Valentin Knappich, Simon Razniewski, Anna Hätty +1
Dealing with long and highly complex technical text is a challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs), which still have to unfold their potential in supporting expensive and timeinte…