DIKWP-Guided Semantic Modeling of Intellectual Property Reasoning for Explainable Legal AI
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Abstract
Intellectual property reasoning depends on the interaction of factual context, doctrinal tests, exceptions, evidentiary uncertainty, and regulatory objectives. These features make patent, copyright, and trademark analysis difficult to support through text-level processing or isolated rule encoding. This article proposes a bounded DIKWP-guided semantic modeling framework for representing selected intellectual property reasoning patterns as queryable semantic structures. The framework is conceptual and design-oriented; it is specified at the design level through a formal graph characterization of DIKWP, a modular ontology fragment, rule schemas, SPARQL-style queries, and worked examples from patent, copyright, and trademark reasoning. Methodologically, the study uses a qualitative legal-informatics design approach. The three IP domains are selected because they represent complementary reasoning patterns: claim-element correspondence and equivalence screening in patent law, expression and exception analysis in copyright law, and factor-based confusion assessment in trademark law. The examples are used to derive semantic entities, relations, rule-linked structures, uncertainty annotations, explanation paths, and human-review triggers. DIKWP is treated not as a complete legal ontology or autonomous adjudicator, but as a network-structured meta-architecture for coordinating data, information, knowledge, wisdom, and purpose in reviewable legal decision support. The article illustrates how selected IP reasoning patterns can be represented in forms that remain traceable to legal sources and open to human review. It does not claim empirical validation, jurisdiction-specific doctrinal completeness, or autonomous legal decision-making. Its contribution is to specify how semantic legal representation can be made more operational, auditable, and institutionally constrained in the intellectual property domain.
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OpenAlex topics: Artificial Intelligence in Law · Law, AI, and Intellectual Property · Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
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School of Information and Communication Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
School of Computer Science and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
Funding
the National Natural Science Foundation of China · the Hainan Province Health Science and Technology Innovation Joint Program · the Hainan Province Key R&D Program
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