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RIO DE JANEIRO and COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 15, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--

-- Year-long proof of concept demonstrates the utility of CAS technology and

human curation to expedite patent examination

The National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) of Brazil and CAS, a

division of the not-for-profit American Chemical Society that specializes in

scientific information solutions, signed a formal Technical Cooperation

Agreement on June 4, 2020. This agreement is the culmination of more than 18

months of work and collaboration (

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) between the organizations to test and optimize the application of CAS

technology to expedite patent examination. The initiative reinforces INPI's

strategy for increasing efficiency and reducing patent examination time through

the use of technology helping to overcome the rapid growth of patent

application volume and complexity seen in Brazil, and globally, in recent years.

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"Embracing new technology approaches is a critical strategy needed to meet our

commitment to reduce Brazil's application backlog by 80% in the next 2 years,"

said INPI President, Dr. Claudio Furtado. "The unique technology and expertise

that CAS has provided demonstrate a measurable impact on our examiners'

efficiency. We are pleased with the progress to date and look forward to

building on this partnership to achieve our objective."

"Timely review of patent applications is critical to encouraging global

innovation, and backlogs have very real commercial and human consequences,"

said Manuel Guzman, President of CAS. "The world's patent offices face

unprecedented challenges as application volume and complexity continue to grow

faster than their available resources. We are committed to partnering with

INPI, and other patent offices around the world, to help them overcome these

challenges through development of customized solutions to accelerate their

examination workflows."

The CAS technology approach combines similarity scoring, workflow

classification and knowledge-space exploration capabilities to uncover a

reliable set of prior art, or previously published information relevant to the

subject innovation, which expedites patent examiners' work. "The innovative,

forward-looking team at INPI has provided extremely valuable input and

collaboration through this process to optimize our algorithms and approach,"

said Tim Wahlberg, Chief Product Officer, CAS. "The combined teams' work to

date clearly demonstrates that training algorithms with our extensive

collection of human-curated data, and augmenting the machine learning outcomes

with human insights from our team of scientists, is extremely effective."

"Addressing the timeliness of application processing at INPI is a top priority

for the examination function," affirmed Liane Elizabeth Caldeira Lage, Director

of Patents, Software and Topography of Integrated Circuits. "Assessing novelty

of inventions in chemistry and all other scientific fields is especially

challenging and this approach is showing great promise to expedite our work in

these areas."

About INPI

The National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) is the official government

body responsible for Industrial Property rights in Brazil being a federal

autarchy of the Ministry of Economy. INPI's duties include: Trademarks

registration, Patent grants, Technology Transfer and Franchising Contracts

registration, Industrial Designs registration, Geographical Indications

registration, Software registration and Topography of Integrated Circuits

registration. Visit the INPI website at www.gov.br/inpi.

About CAS

CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society specializing in scientific

information solutions, partners with R&D organizations globally to provide

actionable insights that help them plan, innovate, protect their innovations,

and predict how new markets and opportunities will evolve. Scientific

researchers, patent professionals and business leaders around the world rely on

our solutions and services to advise discovery and strategy. With more than 110

years' experience, no one knows more about scientific information than CAS.

Learn more at www.cas.org.

CAS Media Contact:

Tina Tomeo

+1-614-447-3600

cas-pr@cas.org

SOURCE: CAS