Comparing bibliographic data in the document against Patent Center 

ClaimMaster lets you verify the bibliographic data listed in your document against data shown at the USPTO's Patent Center ("PC"). This lets you avoid inadvertently listing wrong application number or other information in your Office Action correspondence, which could lead to misfiling by the USPTO and abandonment.  When you use this tool, ClaimMaster will retrieve data for a specified application number from Patent Center and compare it to the text of your document. Bibliographic items not found in the document will be highlighted in red, items partially matching text in the document will be highlighted in yellow, full matches will be shown in green.



Getting Started

To check the Office Action Response header for inconsistencies, click on the Individual Proofing Tools menu, then select Check Office Action Response Header:



Feature Options

Once you select this option, the bibliographic data comparison dialog will be shown. The following options are available from this window:


    1. Lists the application number that will be used to retrieve biblio data from Patent Center (automatic), manual import from Patent Center.  By default, ClaimMaster will attempt to automatically retrieve it from the currently open document, but you can also directly edit the number in this field..  
    2. Specify what source to use for downloading the bibliographic data. For published applications, use Patent Center, for unpublished applications you can import the same data using manual import from Patent Center.
    3. This section shows the retrieved bibliographic data from the specified source (after button #4 is pressed) for the specified patent application number. Bibliographic items not found in the document will be highlighted in red, items partially matching text in the document will be highlighted in yellow, full matches will be shown in green.  You can cross-check each field found in the document to the reference values pulled from the USPTO source
    4. Press this button to retrieve bibliographic data from the specified USPTO source and compare it to the data listed in your document.