Most professions utilize highly specialized innovative technologies to improve the way they work and the results they get. For example, architects and engineers use CAD to generate higher quality output faster. Software developers work in Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) to keep track of code going into a product, and generate warnings if errors are created as a result of merged code. Marketers use analytics to improve their ability to target and generate revenue from customers.
The examples are endless. But ironically, many of the patent professionals that deal with innovation, still rely on traditional tools such as general-purpose word-processing tools, vector-drawing software, and email. As a result, the patent preparation process is labor intensive, time consuming, expensive, and error-prone.
Specialized Technology for IP Drafting & Prosecution
Fortunately for IP professionals, the end of the “prehistoric era” of intellectual property tools is in sight. Now, special-purpose automation and analytics technologies can be applied throughout the IP process to help generate more valuable IP, enhance quality, increase efficiency, reduce errors during preparation and prosecution, and manage a portfolio to the company’s advantage.
Corporations can (and should) ensure that their patent professionals utilize specialized automated patent drafting software. Today’s most advanced drafting tools automate elements of the patent process that are most susceptible to human error. Such software prevents potential issues such as formatting errors, antecedent basis errors, punctuation defects, claim order and cross-reference errors, circular claim number references, claims with a canceled parent, and more. These kinds of errors are incredibly common, and lead to 112 rejections, decreased technical quality, increased back-and-forth with the USPTO, and thus increased time to issuance.
Automation technology enables patent professionals to focus on the intellectual components of patent drafting, spending their time on the quality and scope of the patent application’s content, rather than getting bogged down in tedious formatting, word processing, and document preparation tasks.
Automated Patent Quality Analysis
Corporate patent portfolio managers not only have the daunting task of managing the flow of intellectual property, but also ensuring their IP professionals are producing patents to the level of quality they expect. Given the incredibly complex nature of patent documents, effectively reviewing the entirety of every application manually is simply not realistic for a busy corporate patent manager.
However, automated technologies now enable patent managers to rapidly assess the technical quality of a patent at any stage. Such technologies use various algorithms to discover and report issues that may result in 112 rejections, substantially restrict the scope of the patent, or weaken the patent during prosecution and litigation.
As a result of these automated tools, patent managers can quickly scan a simple report summarizing the content and issues of the patent at hand. Further, managers can easily gain the visibility necessary to assess the quality of their patent drafters.
Of course, these are just a few of the ways in which new technologies are assisting corporations and patent professionals in the IP process. Automation tools are also becoming a necessity in the IP process for communication, security, portfolio analysis, and more. As was the case for software development, civil engineering, and countless other fields, purpose-built automation tools will soon be the new standard for the IP process, and will undoubtedly increase the quantity and quality of intellectual property.
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