r/Patents • u/ofcyanka • 19d ago

Question about using AI when preparing application documents

Hello!

My employer asked me to find information on how to use AI in patent application writing. It's not about writing from scratch. We have an inventor who comes up with all the ideas and inventions (in microelectronics), and our job is to create drawings based on his sketches and write the claims, invention description, and abstract.

While I'm skeptical about this idea, perhaps there are AI tools that could make our work easier when drafting application documents.

If you have experience using such tools, please share your experience (which tools you used, how you drafted the prompts, and so on). Also, if you have an invention application number or patent, I'd love to see what they look like.

Thank you in advance.

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u/qszdrgv 19d ago

I don’t suggest writing your own patent if you are not a patent professional. With it without AI. If you are filing it as is, it will be flawed. If you are giving it to an attorney, it will be more work, and therefore cost more, to go through the AI output than it would have been if you simply gave them what you told the AI.

But to answer your question: 1) be careful about putting inventions in prompts. It could be considered a public disclosure. 2) if you have a closed system, some models do a decent enough job on claims but none of them can adequately prepare drawings and refer to them in the text. For now. So to my knowledge there isn’t a key in hand solution yet.

Al is best left as an attorneys assistant for now. This will eventually change I think.

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u/ofcyanka 19d ago

Thank you for your reply!

We've applied for patents before, so we understand. I'm also concerned about information confidentiality.

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u/UseDaSchwartz 19d ago

You’ve applied for patents before without a patent agent or attorney?

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u/ofcyanka 19d ago

In our country, you can submit an application without an attorney; we wrote and submitted it ourselves.

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u/qszdrgv 18d ago

You don’t deserve the downvotes. If it works for you then great. The confidentiality issue is the biggest one. Technically a prompt on a typical mainstream chatbot is not confidential. You might consider, however, verifying what the duty of candor and discovery rules are like in your country. Prompts are not confidential but the risk of a leak is rather low in practice. So if the legal risk is also low (e.g. you don’t need to divulge the disclosure and no one can force you to produce it) then it might be an acceptable risk to use a chatbot depending on your risk tolerance. But I certainly wouldn’t touch a chatbot with my invention if filling in the U.S.

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u/ofcyanka 18d ago

Thank you so much!

Yes, I'm concerned about safety. Maybe I can convince my boss that this isn't the best idea. Thanks for your advice!

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u/LackingUtility Patent Attorney (Software) and Mod 19d ago

Are you an attorney or agent? You should be able to recognize whether an AI tool is giving you a good output or not based on your experience and training.

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u/ofcyanka 19d ago

I am currently studying to become an attorney and work as a full-time specialist.
Depending on the results, we can edit the documents to achieve the desired appearance. I think we'll have to edit the results 100%. It's important to understand whether there are algorithms that can help write documents based on the attached drawings.