Patent Proofreading Tools

The latest ClaimMaster version contains a number of helpful improvements to our patent proofreading reports, both in HTML and PDF format.

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As noted by Judge Newman “there are few, if any, legal documents more difficult to craft, more fraught with pitfalls than patent applications.” In this post we go over various drafting errors that could raise 35 U.S.C. 112 issues during litigation and discuss how to avoid them.

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ClaimMaster streamlines part number proofreading by checking specification and figures for incorrect part numbers and names, parts introduced out of order, and part numbers from the specification not used in the figures and vise-versa.

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ClaimMaster can determine whether any terms or words used in claims are not explicitly supported in the specification (i.e., all document sections other than claims).

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ClaimMaster can check your document for various stylistic issues and “patent profanities”, such as “invention”, “must”, “always”, “required”, “necessary” and other phrases that may limit the scope of your claims during litigation. These patent proofreading rules

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ClaimMaster includes several patent proofreading tools for checking claims in a patent document for various antecedent basis (“AB”) issues, such as missing or ambiguous antecedents, and other types of related inconsistencies. For more information on this

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ClaimMaster lets you to customize antecedent parsing rules. This may be needed, as ClaimMaster might occasionally make a mistake when grouping terms, which may result in falsely reported or unreported missing antecedents.

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ClaimMaster can check whether acronyms are properly defined and used in your documents. Specifically, you can use ClaimMaster to determine whether acronyms are either (1) not defined or (2) used before being defined.

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As part of patent proofreading tools library, ClaimMaster provides several handy tools for proofreading/reviewing figures. These tools let you view the names of the parts used in the figures directly in the figures or next

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ClaimMaster can check claims in a patent document for various issues, such as wrong claim numbering and dependencies, incorrectly defined multiple claims, incorrect status indicators and amendments, presence of “patent profanities”

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