Why now
Every prosecution decision — how a claim was narrowed to overcome an office action, which arguments distinguished the prior art, whether an amendment surrendered scope under Festo— has always lived in the prosecution history. What changed is that the USPTO's Open Data Portal made those records bulk-accessible, EPO OPS exposes the same for 100+ international offices, and modern language models can extract structured signals from them at portfolio scale. What used to require a paralegal-hour per matter now runs in seconds across the whole estate.
Portfolio-quality metrics have leaned on bibliographic proxies — claim count, family size, forward citations, prosecution speed — because those were the signals the databases could serve cheaply. They're not the signals that predict whether a claim survives an IPR or a Phillips-standard construction dispute. Those signals are one level downstream, and now they're reachable.
From the essay
“Passing examination and surviving adversarial scrutiny are not the same test, and the gap between them is not narrow.”
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Who it's for
Docket managers, paralegals, prosecution coordinators, and IP ops managers. Automated docketing across USPTO, PCT, and EPO with statutory deadlines computed from prosecution events — no manual re-keying.
Run IP due diligence and track portfolio health through structured claim evolution and prosecution history, with AI handling deadline tracking and document extraction.
Run portfolio management and patent quality analysis on structured prosecution data — filing trends, examiner patterns, and prosecution health across your entire estate.
Build infringement and invalidity claim charts for litigation and licensing, grounded in structured prosecution history. Every element maps to source evidence, reviewed and controlled by counsel before it's relied on.
M&A counsel, corporate development, and transactional IP boutiques. Pull a target's full estate from USPTO and EPO, score every matter from the prosecution history, and generate a portfolio report — a starting point for IP due diligence, not the full deal-room deliverable.
Built for the way IP teams actually work
USPTO ODP (13M+ files) and EPO OPS (100+ international offices, including PCT and EPO Register).
Narrative generation only runs on cells an attorney has rated. Nothing gets argued until the underlying triage is ratified.
Every mapping traces to source evidence. Every claim to prosecution events. Every construction to spec passages. Reproducible on demand.
Signals, quality scores, and deadlines are computed from prosecution events — not maintained by hand, not inferred from metadata.
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