An approach to avoid patent infringement is to review patent documents prior to ideation. However, doing so can lead to design fixation and design distraction. Hence, this paper examines whether reviewing just the patent claim instead of the full patent document can mitigate design fixation and design distraction. 329 undergraduate engineering students were involved in this study. It was found that reviewing just the patent claim can reduce fixation on the design feature reviewed but not on the function of the design feature. In addition, reviewing just the patent claim did not reduce design distraction. The findings of this work can be used to shape the way patent documents are reviewed.

避免专利侵权的一种方法是在构思之前先审查专利文件。但是，这样做会导致设计固定和设计分散注意力。因此，本文研究了仅审查专利权利要求而不是完整的专利文件是否可以减轻外观设计的固定和设计的干扰。329名工程学本科生参与了这项研究。发现仅审查专利权利要求可以减少对所审查的设计特征的固定，而不能减少对设计特征的功能的固定。此外，仅审查专利权利要求并不能减少设计的注意力。这项工作的发现可用于塑造专利文件审阅的方式。