Responding to an office action takes time: assessing the rejections, checking what's already addressed, and deciding how to respond to what's left. Patent Bots' Gen AI Chat now helps with that work, while keeping you in control of every decision. Here's what's new.
OA Response Drafting
Gen AI Chat is now available for OA response drafting. It’s built around a skill that guides the model to work through a response the way a patent attorney does. It reads the office action, identifies the status of your response, and suggests next steps.
Importantly, Patent Bots automatically passes all the documents needed for context to the Gen AI. We extract the application number from your OA response, pull the most recent office action, your own specification, and the relevant prior art. The tool then uses this to identify the rejections from the OA and check your draft response against them to see what's been addressed and what's still open.
Ask the tool to evaluate a rejection, and it returns a table mapping each limitation to its disclosure and an assessment of how well it's supported. From there, you can ask it to propose arguments or suggest a claim amendment to strengthen your position.
As with our application drafting, you drive the process. The tool suggests; you decide.
Works with Non-Public Applications
You can already log in to Patent Center through the Patent Bots website, and this capability now extends to our Word add-in. For applications that aren't public, a button lets you log in to Patent Center directly. Once logged in, everything works exactly as it does for public applications.
Easy Access to Documents
Our Word add-in includes tabs for the office action, your specification, and the patent prior art, making it easy to review the information you need to respond to the office action. Even better, each of these tabs now includes a search button so you can jump straight to the relevant sections of the documents.
See It for Yourself
The best way to know whether this fits your practice is to try it on a real office action. Start a free trial and run Gen AI Chat against one of your own responses; you'll see how it identifies rejections, evaluates them against your draft, and helps you build a response or amend claims, all while leaving the final calls to you.