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Patent-prosecution autopilot

Searches prior art, screens bars and drafts the filing — a USPTO-registered patent practitioner signs before it is filed with the USPTO.

IP counsel / patent-prosecution leadbuys it $5.1Bmarket 5 auto · 1 humanflow steps

The problem

Patent prosecution is high-stakes novelty/obviousness analysis under a duty of candor, where a missed statutory bar or a candor breach forfeits or invalidates the rights and only a registered practitioner may prosecute before the USPTO.

What you get

Disclosures searched, screened and drafted straight-through; a USPTO-registered patent practitioner signs before the application/response is filed with the USPTO.

The flow

Intake to outcome. 🤖 steps run automatically; 🧑‍⚖️ steps are where a named human signs off the judgment calls.

  1. 1
    🤖 Intake the invention disclosure (spec, drawings, inventor declarations)
    agent intake · Document OCR
  2. 2
    🤖 Search prior art and assess patentability (102 novelty / 103 obviousness / 112) + inventorship
    agent examiner · Prior-art / patentability
  3. 3
    🤖 Screen statutory bars + duty-of-candor / IDS + foreign-filing-license / export
    agent compliance · Prior-art / patentability
  4. 4
    🧑‍⚖️ A USPTO-registered patent practitioner signs the application / response Human checkpoint
    USPTO-registered patent practitioner
  5. 5
    🤖 File the application / response with the USPTO ⚠ Irreversible · high blast
    agent submit · USPTO filing (Patent Center)
  6. 6
    🤖 Docket and monitor the application (status, deadlines, office actions)
    agent monitor · USPTO filing (Patent Center)

Agents & tools

  • Document OCR stub → AWS Textract
  • Prior-art / patentability stub → USPTO PatFT
  • USPTO filing (Patent Center) stub → USPTO Patent Center

Connectors run as sandbox stubs today — flip to the real provider to go live.

Human checkpoints

  • USPTO-registered patent practitioner — A USPTO-registered patent practitioner signs the application / response

The autopilot escalates the judgment calls to a qualified human — the rest is straight-through.

Why it's safe to let it run

Every autonomous decision is logged — who · what · confidence. Signed human checkpoints and a built-in compliance reviewer enforce the rails, so the outcome holds up to an audit, not just a demo. Every irreversible action runs only after a human signs — the autopilot does the volume, never the point of no return on its own.

🧑 Accountable owner: USPTO-registered patent attorney/agent — one person answers for what this autopilot does.

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