SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING DOCUMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH ONE OR MORE PATENT APPLICATIONS

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for managing documents such as a prior art documents and documents for submission to government agencies such as an information disclosure statement (IDS) configured for submission to a patent office. In certain aspects, the system and methods include automatic retrieval of relevant documents, for example using a crawler service over a network such as the Internet. In certain aspects, the systems and methods include automatic optical character recognition and template matching to facilitate the extraction of information relating to certain documents. In certain aspects, the system and methods include a generating interface configured to present information to a generating user and to allow the generating user to select options relating to the citation of references in a particular patent family.