Patent Bots®

What Patent Bots® does

Patent Bots provides a suite of essential and easy-to-use tools to help patent attorneys streamline tedious day-to-day work, submit stronger patent applications, deliver results faster for clients, and improve their firms’ bottom lines. The platform consists of six primary products that support each step of patent application and prosecution, leveraging AI and machine learning to enhance the patent preparation and prosecution process. The company focuses on providing high-quality tools with intuitive user interfaces, constant product improvement based on customer feedback, and reasonable pricing.

Products

• Prep & Pros ProA suite of rule-based and Gen AI tools for patent proofreading, patent drafting, OA shell generation, IDS form filling, and USPTO form generation. It runs as a Microsoft Word add-in and includes drafting tools for patent applications (navigation, claims management, SEQ ID NOs, reference label tracker, figures, rules-based generation, saved Gen AI prompts, Gen AI chat) and office action responses.
• Art Unit PredictorPredicts the USPTO groups and art units that will be assigned to a patent application, allowing users to revise claims to steer the application to a preferred art unit.
• Examiner StatisticsProvides a page for each patent examiner with grant rates, difficulty rankings, appeals statistics, and more to adapt patent strategy. Basic statistics are free, premium statistics include appeals and office action rejection details.
• PatentPlexA tool for information about U.S. and European patents, allowing users to view and download patent family trees, explore prosecution timelines, and review patents with a patent analyzer.
• PatentLinkEnables users to build interactive lists of patents for effective portfolio oversight, workload management, and competitive intelligence insight.
• PatentVerseProvides insight into patent quality, speed, and client relationships for smarter decisions, including rankings of companies based on issued patents, extensions, office actions, RCEs, speed scores, and quality scores. Offers expanded access with a subscription.

Key capabilities

• AI-enabled drafting and proofreading
• Patent examiner statistics
• Art unit prediction
• Patent family trees and prosecution timelines
• Interactive patent lists
• Patent quality and speed insights
• Microsoft Word add-in
• Claim renumbering and management
• SEQ ID NOs management
• Reference label tracking
• Rules-based generation of application sections
• Saved Gen AI prompts
• Gen AI chat interface
• Secure, zero data retention for Gen AI tools
• SOC 2 Type II compliant security practices
• No storage of patent documents
• Communications encrypted with HTTPS and TLS 1.2
• Annual penetration tests
• Weekly vulnerability scans

Use cases

• Streamlining day-to-day patent work
• Submitting stronger patent applications
• Delivering results faster for clients
• Improving law firm bottom lines
• Patent drafting
• Patent proofreading
• Office action shell generation
• IDS form filling
• USPTO form generation
• Navigating patent documents
• Managing claim sets
• Managing biological sequence identifiers
• Tracking reference labels
• Generating routine application sections
• Responding to office actions
• Predicting patent art units
• Adapting patent strategy based on examiner data
• Reviewing and analyzing U.S. and European patents
• Building patent lists for portfolio oversight
• Workload management
• Competitive intelligence
• Gaining insight into patent quality and speed
• Optimizing patent portfolio analysis
• Due diligence

AI approach

Patent Bots uses proprietary patent-specific machine learning models to understand patent text and incorporates Generative AI capabilities for drafting, proofreading, and office action responses. They emphasize smart, effective implementation of AI and machine learning to enhance patent preparation and prosecution, with a focus on zero data retention for Gen AI tools.

Tech named: machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, Gen AI

Industries served

• Legal
• Technology, Information and Internet

What it says sets it apart

• AI and machine learning expertise for patent-specific models
• Incorporation of Gen AI with focus on real value, not hype
• Intuitive user interfaces
• Constant product improvement based on customer feedback
• Transparent pricing
• No long-term contracts
• Reasonable pricing for immediate ROI
• Best pricing on the market
• A la carte pricing
• Saves significant time on routine patent tasks
• Secure and easy to use with zero data retention for Gen AI
• SOC 2 compliant security practices
• Does not store customer patent documents