MikeA legal AI workspace for patent law firms
Patent firms use Mike to read office actions, specifications and cited references together, build claim charts, check amendments for support, and draft response sections in Word. Every point cites the paragraph or page it came from, so the attorney can confirm the record before filing.
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Attorney: Does the specification support the new limitation in claim 1? Check the cited reference and draft the remarks.
Mike: The specification supports the amendment. Paragraph 42 describes a sampling interval adjusted by the controller [1], which matches the new limitation in claim 1. The examiner's rejection relies on the reference's fixed interval [2], and the office action does not address adjustment of the interval [3]. I drafted remarks on that distinction.
- [1] Halvorsen specification, ¶ 42, p. 11
- [2] Prior art reference, col. 6, lines 20 to 34
- [3] Non-final office action, p. 5
Mike created Halvorsen response, remarks.docx.
Example matter. Names and documents are fictional.
Patent work is close reading across documents that must agree. A claim has to find support in the specification, a response has to answer each rejection, and a reference has to be compared element by element. Mike does that comparison methodically, shows its work, and flags the places where the language does not line up.
Cuanto Labs sets Mike up against your prosecution and litigation folders, loads your response, claim chart and disclosure forms, and agrees how citations to specification paragraphs should read. Pre-filing inventions stay inside your firm's own installation.
What Mike does for your practice
- Office action analysis
- Mike reads an office action, lists each rejection with the claims and references it relies on, and maps the examiner's reasoning to the passages cited in the reference. The attorney starts the response from an organized picture of what has to be answered.
- Claim charts
- Given a claim and a reference or a product document, Mike builds a chart of claim elements against the corresponding passages, with pinpoint cites on both sides. Use it for invalidity, infringement or freedom to operate drafts that an attorney then edits.
- Amendment support checks
- Before you file an amendment, Mike searches the specification and original claims for support of each new limitation and reports the paragraph where it found it, or says that it found none.
- Response drafting
- Mike drafts the remarks section of a response in your firm's template, with the claim amendments shown as tracked changes in Word. Arguments are drawn from the office action, the reference and the specification, and the attorney decides the strategy.
- Invention disclosure intake
- Mike reads inventor disclosures, lab notes and slides, and drafts a summary of the invention with candidate claim elements and open questions for the inventor interview.
- Portfolio review and deadlines
- Tabular Review pulls application numbers, filing dates, status, assignees and stated deadlines from the documents in a client's file into one table, which your docketing team can compare with its own records.
How we set it up for your firm
- Application file folders
- We connect Mike to where application files, office actions and cited references are stored, so attorneys work from the file and not from copies.
- Response and disclosure templates
- We load the response formats and invention disclosure forms your firm already uses, so drafts match your house style.
- Claim chart layouts
- We set the chart columns, such as claim element, reference passage, pinpoint cite and comment, to match the charts your litigation team already produces.
- Prior art and patent sources
- Where your firm has access to patent databases or other sources, we connect them during setup, since Mike is not itself a prior art search engine.
- Portfolio review columns
- We build the Tabular Review fields for application number, filing date, status, assignee and stated deadlines, matched to what your docketing team tracks.
Questions attorneys ask
Does Mike search patent databases?
Mike searches published US case law and the documents in your matter folders, and we can connect other research sources your firm subscribes to. It is not a prior art search engine. If you gather references, Mike reads them, compares them to claims, and charts them, but the search strategy is the attorney's.
Can Mike read patent drawings?
Mike works with the text of specifications, claims and office actions, including reference numerals in the description. It does not interpret drawings the way an attorney does. For figure-dependent questions, expect it to rely on the written description and to tell you where a figure needs a human look. Drawings remain with the attorney, and Mike will say so when a question depends on a figure.
How reliable are the claim charts?
Each cell points to the passage it relied on, so the attorney can check it in seconds. Mike can misread a technical term or overlook a passage, which is why every chart is a draft for review. The charts save the assembly time, and the legal judgment about each element stays with you.
Can Mike confirm that a response answers every rejection?
Mike lists each rejection in the office action with its claims and cited references, then reads your draft response and reports which rejections it addresses and which it leaves untouched, with the page for each. It checks coverage, not the strength of the argument. Whether the remarks persuade an examiner is the attorney's judgment.
Can Mike find claim terms without antecedent basis?
It can read a claim set and list terms introduced with "the" or "said" that have no earlier introduction in the claim, as a draft list for the attorney to check. It may miss unusual constructions, and dependent claims that rely on a parent claim need a human read. Treat the list as a first pass before filing.
Can it edit our claims in Word?
Yes. Mike edits Word documents with tracked changes, so a claim amendment appears as insertions and deletions the attorney can accept or reject. It can also generate a clean claim set and a marked set from the same instructions, though the final formatting should be checked before filing. Because the result is a Word document, the attorney's usual review and filing process applies.
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