The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has launched DesignVision, an AI tool for design patent examiners to improve patent quality and reduce examination backlog. This centralized tool allows examiners to search data from over 80 global intellectual property registers including the WIPO and EUIPO. Examiners can build specific queries using multiple images and filter results accordingly. To maintain transparency, the USPTO will record data from DesignVision searches in application files, adhering to established procedures for documenting prior art search details.
DesignVision functions as a centralized tool for querying multiple industrial design data sources and is part of the USPTO's effort to tackle the patent examination backlog.
The AI-powered DesignVision tool allows examiners to build queries using uploaded images and filter results by text and classification.
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