BlueFoot wants to build a software solution that accurately identifies the actual corporate owners of patents filed by Chinese-language only patent assignee names, to feed into its machine-learning tool. The Chinese innovation landscape is a black box, as mass translation of patents and correlation to Chinese corporate owners is currently unavailable. Enabling this translation and correlation provides insight into the Chinese domestic innovation landscape, and how IP theft by Chinese actors could be leveraged and monetized via the patent system. In particular, BlueFoot can help the Air Force (including its Phase 1 LoS signor, SAF/CDM) timely identify potential beneficiaries of Chinese IP theft. This solution would require creation of a translation encoder to detect Chinese-language only patent assignee names and automatically correlate to the English version of corporate trees.
