Chapter 14
AI in Patent Practice: Tools, Capabilities & Limitations
A Practitioner's Honest Assessment of AI for IP Work
A rigorous, practitioner-focused survey of AI tools in the IP landscape - prior-art search engines, claim drafting assistants, prosecution analytics, and LLM-based drafting. Covers capabilities, limitations, and ethical obligations.
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Key Topics
- AI prior-art search tools (Google Patents AI, Lens.org, Patsnap)
- LLM-assisted claim drafting
- Prosecution analytics tools
- Ethical obligations and unauthorized practice risks
- Hallucination risk and verification discipline
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Alice/Mayo Eligibility Analysis (USPTO)
Analyses claims under the Alice/Mayo framework and the USPTO's 2019 Revised Guidance.
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AI Tool Evaluation Framework for IP Work
Evaluates an AI tool for use in a specific IP workflow task.