• Draft higher-quality patent applications with tools that help you check your claims for proper antecedent basis / possible lack of support in the disclosure, terminology for court rulings, multiple claim sets for new matter, and consistency in part labeling and numbering. Insert pre-formatted citations and hyperlinks, and automatically renumber claims and references during final editing.
• Analyze patents at issue in litigation to assess potential areas of weakness and form higher-value litigation strategies.
• Create comprehensive reports that identify claim issues, drawing reference anomalies, improper term and phrase usage, etc. Generate pre-populated IDS forms and more.
  

• Integrated into Microsoft® Word, Internet Explorer, Adobe® Acrobat® 8.0 and Adobe® Reader® 8.0.
• Supports patents published on the following services: TotalPatent™, lexis.com®, and USPTO.gov.
• Leverages unique LexisNexis content, including enhanced full-text patent information, post issuance data, federal case law and administrative rulings, Matthew Bender® Attorney’s Dictionary of Patent Claims, EI Compendex® Thesaurus, and a variety of other sources and forms, all presented in an accessible/digestible format at your immediate point of need.

With the PatentOptimizer™ service you can …

Check, Compare & Match Claims

• Check claim language for prior adjudications and prior art references and link to related cases and patents.
• Spot ambiguous or missing antecedents and lack of support in drawings or descriptions.
• Generate a navigable claim hierarchy on the fly.
• Search, retrieve, and capture comparable claim language in the prior art.
• Detect term and phrase differentials in your claims and descriptions.
• Automatically research specific claim elements in prior art and assimilate prior art reference data into an auto-generated claim hierarchy.
• Quickly compare claim elements, terms, and phrases across multiple documents to detect new and deleted matter.
• Match claim sets of multiple documents and easily identify claims that have been removed, modified or added.

Check References

• Instantly retrieve patent citation references in your grant or application and review related bibliographic information.
• View a comprehensive post-issuance activity report for cited patents.
• Investigate, verify, and export information related to the citations appearing in your patent document. 

Check Parts

• Check the accuracy and consistency of your reference figures and related part numbers and labels.
• Auto-insert part numbers into the abstract or claims for foreign filing or analysis .
• Use shorthand notations for reciting parts while drafting.
• Identify repeated parts for correction as necessary 

Check Terms

• Generate a list of cases referencing and interpreting key terms and phrases from your patent document.
• Detect and report terms from user-created dictionaries.
• Export complete custom term glossaries for insertion into applications.

Check Measurements

• Detect and instantly convert common English measurements into metric.
• Identify inaccurate user-entered conversions.

Other

• Insert fully formatted patent citations with a click of the button.
• Automatically update amended claim numbering and dependencies.
• Research terminology and locate viable synonyms and term definitions.

Patent information retrieved by the check references tool can automatically pre-populate an Information Disclosure Statement.  This can be done using the USPTO’s EFS-Web PDF form or the HotDocs Document Assembly program.  The free download for the HotDocs 2008 Player is located at http://www.hotdocs.com/downloads/hd2008/player/

• Case Study: Woodcock Washburn (538 KB)
  Woodcock Washburn Ensures Quality, Reduces Editing Time With PatentOptimizer™
• PatentOptimizer™ Quick Reference Guide (519 KB)
• PatentOptimizer™ Overview (3.96mb)