We encourage submissions of high quality research papers on all topics related to patents. Topics of interest include Information Retrieval and Access, text mining, machine learning, large language models (LLMs) applied to patents, in particular, but not limited to:
We solicit two types of submissions from both, industry and academia: full papers and short papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two program committee members and evaluated based on innovativeness, novelty, interestingness, impact and fit to the workshop's topics.
Submissions must be in English as PDF and making use of the CEURART style. The LaTeX files are available as Overleaf template here, and as ZIP download from CEUR-WS.
Submissions should have at most 12 (full) or 6 (short) pages plus additional pages for references. Appendices count toward the page limit. Please put appendices before the references for paper submission. Submissions should be submitted electronically via EasyChair.
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for, and present the work in person at the workshop.
Accepted papers will be published as CEUR (ceur-ws.org) proceedings. Selected contributions will be invited to submit extended, full papers to Elsevier’s World Patent Information (WPI) journal: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/world-patent-information/
All questions about submissions should be emailed to: rkr@informatic.uni-kiel.de and hidir.aras@fiz-karlsruhe.de