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Abstract

The present inventive subject matter relates to document management, more particularly to a system and method for information disclosure statement management. Various embodiments of the present inventive subject matter include systems and methods for tracking reference documents relevant to pending patent applications that includes electronically comparing keywords from a pending claim set with reference document text to automatically determine if a reference document needs to be submitted to a patent office for a pending patent application. Further embodiments include performing electronic analysis on a reference document based on various elements of the reference document in view of elements of a pending patent application. In some embodiments, the analysis includes a keyword analysis to derive a score which is useful in determining if a document should be disclosed to a patenting authority for a pending patent application.

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