Manual Processes Could Not Support Legal Statement Change Challenges Intellectual property is something that you create using your mind—for example, a story, an invention, an artistic work, or a symbol. Having the right type of intellectual property protection helps you to stop people stealing or copying the various elements. Every month, the Patent Office receives up to 65,000 patent, trademark, and design applications. One IT Consultant with the Patent Office explains this process: “Applications arrive by email and in PDF format. We manually extracted the relevant information and entered this into the patent systems, after which a team of valida- tors checked the information against set crite- ria to determine the validity of the application. An email was then sent to pat

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