ClaimMaster has a helpful feature for converting Word’s Track Changes to the USPTO amendment formatting (i.e., underline, strikethrough). We’ve also been receiving occasional requests to add a mirror feature that would converting the USPTO amendment formats to the Track Changes. We’ve now added such a capability to ClaimMaster and it works in the essentially the same way.
First, you would select the region of the document that contained the USPTO amendments:
Next, you will need to select Time-Saving Tools->Claim Amendment Tools->Convert Amendment Formatting in the Selected Text to Track Changes option:
This operation will convert any underlined or strike-through amendments in the selected text region to Track Changes:
Click below to continue reading about other core features in this release:
- Significant improvements to Office Action analysis and shell generation, including Office Action Drafting Assistant
- Verify applications for various DOCX issues prior to the USPTO submissions
- Downloads and report manager
- Annotate figures with part names
- Use of the USPTO’s fast PEDs service for generating family tree and pulling bibliographic data and foreign patent families
- Improved IFW and patent downloading features
- Many other improvements, including client matter id assignment printing of HTML patent proofreading reports