1. A system for displaying patent claims, the system comprising: at least one input device in communication with a computer and at least one output device, and information input via the at least one input device to the at least one computer and viewing information on the at least one output device, and wherein the at least one computer is capable of storing, modifying, outputting, and retrieving information in communication with the at least one input device and at least one output device; and software installed and capable of running on the at least one computer for automatically importing patent claims based upon the user inputted information, parsing the patent claims hierarchically, generating a hierarchical claims diagram comprising graphical claim structure and textual claim content associated with each patent claim, and outputting a viewable diagram of the parsed claims wherein, for each patent claim, the graphical claim structure fully includes the textual claim content; the claims diagram showing at least part of a patent claims series in an interactive format that is operable to dynamically expand and compress the at least part of a patent claims series, including both the graphical claim structure and the fully included textual claim content, according to the hierarch of the at least part of a patent claims series; the graphical claim structure comprises multiple geometric outlines, each outline fully containing the textual claim content of at least part of one claim, and at least one line directly connecting the outlines to each other according the hierarch of the at least part of a patent claims series.