To provide a system for supporting education for retrieval of intellectual property right wherein a student voluntarily learns when a teacher gives the student an assignment in retrieval of a patent, and the teacher remotely monitors the student's progress in learning.

In the system for supporting education for retrieval of intellectual property right, data flowing between a network-type patent retrieval system and a student/user terminal are monitored, and retrieval style information created by the student and retrieval result by the retrieval system are extracted. The user's retrieval learning amount and retrieval technical capability when the user tackles a prescribed retrieval assignment using these pieces of retrieval information are estimated and outputted to a teacher interface. A retrieval interface used by the student to create the retrieval style is edited from the teacher interface. When the retrieval result is transmitted, a question statement and an annotation statement are transmitted together with the retrieval result to the student. As for teacher supporting function, the system has a retrieval assignment creating function, a grade judgement supporting function, and as for student support function, the system has a function to motivate the student to read a patent description and to assist student's understanding of it, a function to guide students to a correct answer, a function to provide reference information, a function to create a patent map, etc.

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