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A computer program that uses knowledge and inference procedures for solving a problem that is sufficiently difficult to require a significant amount of human expertise to arrive at a solution.
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An organized repository of knowledge about a particular subject. For example, a set of U.S. patentability rules is a knowledgebase.
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An unexamined Japanese patent application.
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An examined and allowed Japanese patent application.
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