Category: Preexamination
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Preexamination IV: Using AI to Pressure-Test Inventions for Patent-Worthiness
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in AI assisted patent analysis, AI assisted Patent Generation, Artificial Intelligence and Patents, Artificial Intelligence for Examination of Patent Applications, Artificial Intelligence for Patents, claim challenges, Patent generation to avoid validity challenges, Patent Portfolio Management, Preexamination, prior artSeries note. This is the fourth post in the Preexamination series, following Part I,Part II, and Part III. From valid to worth owning The first three installments used AI to pressure-test claims against the prior art so that what gets filed is more likely to survive examination and challenge. Validity is necessary. It is not…
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Preexamination III: Conception, Inventorship, and the Limits of Landscape
Series note. This is the third post in the Preexamination series. Start with Preexamination: Seeing the Art Before the Office Does and Preexamination II: Landscape For Drafting Invention requires conception U.S. inventorship requires invention and invention requires conception. The USPTO’s revised inventorship guidance states the governing standard in the Federal Circuit’s terms and quotes them…
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Preexamination II: Landscape For Drafting
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in AI assisted patent analysis, AI assisted Patent Generation, Artificial Intelligence and Patents, Artificial Intelligence for Patents, Ex Parte Prosecution, Large Language Model (LLM), Machine Learning (ML), Patent generation to avoid validity challenges, Patent Portfolio Management, Preexamination, PTAB, PTAB Patent TrialsSeries note. This is the second post in the Preexamination series. The first was Preexamination: Seeing the Art Before the Office Does Part I argued that the introduction of AI is not simply better search. It is the ability to read a body of art, reason about what it teaches, and adapt the application while…
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Preexamination: Seeing the Art Before the Office Does
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in AI assisted patent analysis, AI assisted Patent Generation, America Invents Act, Artificial Intelligence and Patents, Artificial Intelligence for Examination of Patent Applications, Artificial Intelligence for Patents, claim amendments, claim challenges, Examination Automation, inter partes review, IPR, Large Language Model (LLM), Machine Learning (ML), Patent generation to avoid validity challenges, Patent Portfolio Management, Post Grant Review, Preexamination, prior art, PTAB Patent Trials, reexamination generally, Synthetic ExaminationFor as long as people have recorded what they know, two capabilities have raced each other: the rate at which we generate information, and the ability to find and make sense of what we already have. Neither has held the lead for long. Every leap in one exposes the inadequacy of the other. The field…