PEDANTIC: A Dataset for the Automatic Examination of Definiteness in Patent Claims

Patent claims define the scope of protection for an invention. If there are ambiguities in a claim, it is rejected by the patent office. In the US, this is referred to as indefiniteness (35 U.S.C § 112(b)) and is among the most frequent reasons for patent application rejection. The development of automatic methods for patent definiteness examination has the potential to make patent drafting and examination more efficient, but no annotated dataset has been published to date.

@article{knappich2025_2505.21342,
  title={ PEDANTIC: A Dataset for the Automatic Examination of Definiteness in Patent Claims },
  author={ Valentin Knappich and Annemarie Friedrich and Anna Hätty and Simon Razniewski },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.21342},
  year={ 2025 }
}