7. A system for determining a potential point of novelty of an identified patent comprising: a network; a patent matter database, accessible on the network, and including data about the patent; a prior art database, accessible on the network, and including data about prior art documents; a server, operatively connected to the network, wherein the server includes: a processor implemented at least partially by hardware, a memory, software operable on the processor to: retrieve at least one independent claim of the patent as issued; retrieve at least one independent claim of the corresponding patent application as published; automatically compare the at least one issued claim of the patent to the at least one published claim of the patent to identify at least one unique keyword present in the at least one issued claim but not present in the at least one published claim; cross-reference the at least one unique keyword to a passage in the specification of the issued patent; flag the at least one unique keyword to a user; identify at least one prior art document and at least one other prior art document; calculate an overlap score for the at least one prior art document based on at least one occurrence of the at least one unique keyword in the at least one prior art document; calculate an overlap score for the at least one other prior art document based on at least one occurrence of the at least one unique keyword in the at least one other prior art document; calculate a ranking for the at least one prior art document by comparing the overlap score of the at least one prior art document to the overlap score of at least one other prior art document; display, in a user interface, a graphical representation of the overlap score of the at least one prior art document and a graphical representation of the overlap score of the at least one other prior art document based on the ranking; identify a priority date of the at least one prior art document and a priority date of the at least one other prior art document; identify an owner of the at least one prior art document and an owner of the at least one other prior art document; and display on a time line, in the user interface, the owner and the priority date of the at least one prior art document and the owner and the priority date of the at least one other prior art document.
7. A system for determining a potential point of novelty of an identified patent comprising: a network; a patent matter database, accessible on the network, and including data about the patent; a prior art database, accessible on the network, and including data about prior art documents; a server, operatively connected to the network, wherein the server includes: a processor implemented at least partially by hardware, a memory, software operable on the processor to: retrieve at least one independent claim of the patent as issued; retrieve at least one independent claim of the corresponding patent application as published; automatically compare the at least one issued claim of the patent to the at least one published claim of the patent to identify at least one unique keyword present in the at least one issued claim but not present in the at least one published claim; cross-reference the at least one unique keyword to a passage in the specification of the issued patent; flag the at least one unique keyword to a user; identify at least one prior art document and at least one other prior art document; calculate an overlap score for the at least one prior art document based on at least one occurrence of the at least one unique keyword in the at least one prior art document; calculate an overlap score for the at least one other prior art document based on at least one occurrence of the at least one unique keyword in the at least one other prior art document; calculate a ranking for the at least one prior art document by comparing the overlap score of the at least one prior art document to the overlap score of at least one other prior art document; display, in a user interface, a graphical representation of the overlap score of the at least one prior art document and a graphical representation of the overlap score of the at least one other prior art document based on the ranking; identify a priority date of the at least one prior art document and a priority date of the at least one other prior art document; identify an owner of the at least one prior art document and an owner of the at least one other prior art document; and display on a time line, in the user interface, the owner and the priority date of the at least one prior art document and the owner and the priority date of the at least one other prior art document. 9. The system of claim 7 , wherein the software is further operable on the processor to receive input from the user manually adding one or more synonyms of the at least one unique keyword to a pool of identified keywords.