List of available replacement fields

When inserted in the document (as plain text), the following predefined replacement fields will be replaced by ClaimMaster when generating Word shells, emails, boilerplate paragraphs, or filling out USPTO forms.  All fields appearing in the document must be enclosed in square brackets, as shown below (e.g., [INVENTOR]). If data to fill the listed fields is not available, they will be simply removed from the final documents. In addition, you can specify an unlimited number of custom replacement fields.  


Biblio Data Replacement Fields  (Shells/Emails + Forms)

These fields relate to the application-specific bibliographic information that could be inserted into shells/forms.

    • [INVENTOR] - First inventor name, as appearing on Patent Center
    • [APPLICANT]- Applicant name, as appearing on Patent Center
    • [ASSIGNEE] - Assignee name (if available)
    • [APPNUM] – U.S. Patent Application No.
    • [FILINGDATE] –  Filing date of the application from Patent Center
    • [PATNUM] - U.S. Patent  No. (if available), otherwise publication number if the application is published
    • [ISSUEDATE] -  Issue date of the patent (if available)
    • [TITLE] –  Title of the application
    • [ARTUNIT] – Art unit examining the application
    • [EXAMINER] –  The name of the Examiner handling the examination
    • [CONFNUM] – Confirmation number from Patent Center
    • [CUSTNUM]  - Customer number from Patent Center
    • [DOCKETNUM] –  Attorney docket number from Patent Center


Attorney/Firm Info Replacement Fields  (Shells/Emails + Forms)

These fields relate to the signature and other information that could be used into shells/forms.

    • [ANAME] - Attorney/agent name
    • [ASIG] - Attorney/agent electronic signature (e.g., /John Smith/)
    • [ATITLE] - Attorney/agent title
    • [ARN] - Attorney/agent registration number
    • [APHONE] - Attorney/agent phone
    • [FNAME] - Firm name
    • [FADDR] -Firm address
    • [FCITY] - Firm city
    • [FSTATE] - Firm state
    • [FZIP] - Firm zip
    • [FCNTR] - Firm country
    • [FPHONE] - Firm phone
    • [FEMAIL] - Firm email
    • [CUSTOM1] and so on - any additional specified custom fields.


Date-Related Fields  (Shells/Emails + Forms)

These fields related to various dates that could be used in shells/forms:

    • [DATE] - today's date
    • [OA_DATE] - the date of the Office Action
    • [OA_DATE+1W] - the date of the Office Action + 1 week
    • [OA_DATE+1M] - the date of the Office Action + 1 month
    • [OA_DATE+2M] - the date of the Office Action + 2 months
    • [OA_DATE+3M] - the date of the Office Action + 3 months
    • [OA_DATE+4M] - the date of the Office Action + 4 months
    • [OA_DATE+5M] - the date of the Office Action + 5 months
    • [OA_DATE+6M] - the date of the Office Action + 6 months
    • [OA_DATE+1Y] - the date of the Office Action + 1 year


Office Action-Related Fields  (Shells/Emails)

These replacement fields allow insertion of OA data (e.g., objections, allowances, rejections) into the shell. For drop-down fields, ClaimMaster will automatically convert these fields to Word drop-down content controls that allow users to select from a drop-down menu of available options: 

    • [OASUMMARY_ORIGINAL] or [OASUMMARY] – Summary of rejections/objections/allowances in the Office Action (original language used by the Examiner in the Office Action).
    • [OASUMMARY_COMPOSED] or [OASUMMARYCOMPOSED] - Summary of rejections/objections/allowances in the Office Action, composed by ClaimMaster.
    • [OASUMMARY_GPT] - Summary of rejections/objections/allowances in the Office Action, as extracted by OpenAI's GPT.
    • [OASUMMARY101_ORIGINAL] - Summary of 101 rejections in the Office Action  (original language used by the Examiner in the Office Action).
    • [OASUMMARY102_ORIGINAL] - Summary of 102 rejections in the Office Action (original language used by the Examiner in the Office Action).
    • [OASUMMARY103_ORIGINAL] - Summary of 103 rejections in the Office Action (original language used by the Examiner in the Office Action).
    • [OASUMMARY112_ORIGINAL] - Summary of 112 rejections in the Office Action (original language used by the Examiner in the Office Action).
    • [OASUMMARYDOUBLE_ORIGINAL] - Summary of double patenting rejections in the Office Action (original language used by the Examiner in the Office Action).
    • [OASUMMARYALLOWED_ORIGINAL] - Summary of allowances  (original language used by the Examiner in the Office Action).
    • [OASUMMARYOBJECTED_ORIGINAL] - Summary of objections (original language used by the Examiner in the Office Action).
    • [OASUMMARY101] - Summary of 101 rejections in the Office Action (recomposed)
    • [OASUMMARY102] - Summary of 102 rejections in the Office Action (recomposed)
    • [OASUMMARY103] - Summary of 103 rejections in the Office Action (recomposed)
    • [OASUMMARY112] - Summary of 112 rejections in the Office Action (recomposed)
    • [OASUMMARYDOUBLE] - Summary of double patenting rejections in the Office Action (recomposed)
    • [OASUMMARYALLOWED] - Summary of allowances (recomposed)
    • [OASUMMARYOBJECTED]        - Summary of objections (recomposed)
    • [OASNAPSHOTS101] - Inserts snapshot/image of 101 rejections from the Office Action
    • [OASNAPSHOTS102] - Inserts snapshot/image of 102 rejections from the Office Action
    • [OASNAPSHOTS103] - Inserts snapshot/image of 103 rejections from the Office Action
    • [OASNAPSHOTS112] - Inserts snapshot/image of 112 rejections from the Office Action
    • [OASNAPSHOTSDOUBLE] - Inserts snapshot/image of double patenting rejections from the Office Action
    • [OASNAPSHOTSALLOWED] - Inserts snapshot/image of allowances from the Office Action
    • [OASNAPSHOTSOBJECTED] - Inserts snapshot/image of objections from the Office Action
    • [OA_CLAIMS_ALLOWED]  - List of allowed claims (numbers only)
    • [OA_CLAIMS_OBJECTED_ALLOWABLE]         - List of claims that would be allowed if rewritten in independent form (numbers only)
    • [OA_CLAIMS_OBJECTED]        - List of all objected claims (numbers only)
    • [OA_CLAIMS_REJECTED]  - List of all rejected claims (numbers only)
    • [OA_CLAIMS_REJECTED_101]          - List of rejected claims under USC 101 (numbers only)
    • [OA_CLAIMS_REJECTED_112]          - List of rejected claims under USC 112 (numbers only)
    • [OA_CLAIMS_REJECTED_102]          - List of rejected claims under USC 102 (numbers only)
    • [OA_CLAIMS_REJECTED_103]          - List of rejected claims under USC 103 (numbers only)
    • [OA_CLAIMS_REJECTED_DOUBLE]          - List of claims rejected for double patenting (numbers only)
    • [OASUMMARY101_DDL]  - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of 101 rejections in the Office Action  (recomposed)
    • [OASUMMARY112_DDL]  - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of 112 rejections in the Office Action  (recomposed)
    • [OASUMMARY102_DDL] - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of 102 rejections in the Office Action  (recomposed)
    • [OASUMMARY103_DDL] - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of 103 rejections in the Office Action (recomposed)
    • [OASUMMARY101_ORIGINAL_DDL]  - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of 101 rejections in the Office Action  (original language used by the Examiner in the Office Action)
    • [OASUMMARY112_ORIGINAL_DDL]  - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of 112 rejections in the Office Action  (original language used by the Examiner in the Office Action)
    • [OASUMMARY102_ORIGINAL_DDL] - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of 102 rejections in the Office Action  (original language used by the Examiner in the Office Action)
    • [OASUMMARY103_ORIGINAL_DDL] - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of 103 rejections in the Office Action (original language used by the Examiner in the Office Action)
    • [OA_CLAIMS_DDL] - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of claims for each of the objections/allowances/rejections (101, 102, 103, 112, etc.) specified in the OA
    • [INDIV_OASUMMARIES_DDL] - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of individual allowances/objections/rejections specified in the OA
    • [OASUMMARY_DDL] -  inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of allowances/objections/rejections specified in the OA  (recomposed)
    • [PRIOR_ART_DDL] - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of cited prior art combinations used for rejections


Claim-Related Fields (Shells/Emails)

Below are the replacement fields related to various claim statistics, assuming you are working with a document that contains claims. For drop-down fields, ClaimMaster will automatically convert these fields to Word drop-down content controls that allow users to select from a drop-down menu of available options: 

    • [CLAIMS] –  Claims for the amendment, if specified
    • [FIRSTINDEPCLAIM] -  full text of the first independent claim in the claim set
    • [CLAIMSUMMARY] – Summary of the claims (i.e., # of pending, amended, etc.), if specified
    • [INDEP_CLAIMS] - inserts a list of independent claims
    • [INDEP_FIRST_CLAIM] - inserts a # of the first independent claim
    • [INDEP_OTHER_CLAIMS] - inserts a list of independent claims (other then the 1st one)
    • [DEP_CLAIMS] - inserts a list of dependent claims
    • [NEW_CLAIMS] - inserts a list of new claims
    • [AMENDED_CLAIMS] - inserts a list of amended claims
    • [CANCELLED_CLAIMS] - inserts a list of canceled claims
    • [WITHDRAWN_CLAIMS] - inserts a list of withdrawn claims
    • [PENDING_CLAIMS] - inserts a list of pending claims
    • [UNDER_CONSIDERATION_CLAIMS] - inserts a list of claims under consideration
    • [INDEP_CLAIMS_DDL] - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of independent claims
    • [INDEP_FIRST_CLAIM_DLL] - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select a # of the first independent claim
    • [INDEP_OTHER_CLAIMS_DDL] - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of independent claims (other then the 1st one)
    • [DEP_CLAIMS_DDL] - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of dependent claims
    • [NEW_CLAIMS_DDL] - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of new claims
    • [AMENDED_CLAIMS_DDL] - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of amended claims
    • [CANCELLED_CLAIMS_DDL] - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of canceled claims
    • [WITHDRAWN_CLAIMS_DDL] - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of withdrawn claims
    • [PENDING_CLAIMS_DDL] - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of pending claims
    • [UNDER_CONSIDERATION_CLAIMS_DDL] - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of claims under consideration
    • [CLAIM_DEPENDENCY_DDL] - inserts a drop-down control that lets you select from a list of claims grouped by their dependency (e.g., "claims 2-7 depend from claim 1").


Document-Embedding Fields (Shells/Emails)

These fields allow embedding of other documents inside the shell/email documents:

    • [PREVRESPONSE] - embeds a copy of the previous Office Action response into the Word shell
    • [ANNOTATEDOA]  - embeds a copy of the annotated Office Action (OCRed + rejection highlights)  into the Word shell
    • [CLAIMTREE] - embeds a copy of the current claim tree into the Word shell
    • [CITEDART] - embeds PDF copies of all cited art (if downloaded in the OA browser) into the Word shell