TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introducing Ai-Assistant
• Patent summary
• Claims rewrite

Introducing Sophia Lab

Questel is glad to provide a new generation of AI-powered assistant. Please read our disclaimer here. AI-tools or LLM may generate inaccurate information regarding people, places, or facts.

 The general concept could be summarised as:

1. Sending patent content from Questel's server to our provider, with state-of-the art prompts
2. Displaying generated text or graph in return

You can access this tab from any family or patent application result (FULLPAT), and from a document in Workfiles module. Or like any other tab, once you have opened a family by clicking on the title from the hitlist. 

If you do not identify this tab among others, please check your tab configuration by clicking on the + on the right / end of tabs list. See our article to customise the hitlist for example.

Text and graph could be copied and expanded/fold by using the dedicated buttons, within each section

Patent summary

This features intends to make a proper and short summary of a patent publication; thus when you are using this on a patent family, Orbit Intelligence will respect your family representative choice. If the selected stage does not include a description and claims, a message will show up. 

Once you have clicked on Run, a generated text will appear as follow:

Designed as a straightforward tool, you can request the summary generation on each family. By default, the representative member will be used by Sophia Lab, and you can change to use another publication stage with the drop-down menu at the top. 

Once the first summary generated, you can select another publication from the family overview in the middle of the screen. Please wait a couple of seconds (up to 30 sec for above 200 pages publications e.g.) until the new summary is generated. 

6 sections will appear as following:

• Claim Summary

The main purpose of this section is to reduce claims to a short and descriptive paragraph. You will recognize the main claim and an introduction to dependent claims. If the patent publication includes 2 or more independent claims, this paragraph will try to expose the difference between them.

In any case, this section cannot replace a proper reading and understanding of claims. If you are running a Freedom to operate (FTO) search, we strongly discourage to stop your analysis to this text. 

• Enhanced Abstract

As not all the patent include a proper and convenient abstract in corresponding field, AI-Assistant can generate a new one based on Key content (Object of invention, advantages & drawbacks) and whole description too. This content is mostly clear for any person skilled in the art. This enhanced abstract may reproduce the original abstract if this original one has been properly done.  

• Object of Invention

This section will try to put the emphasis on the main reason (the "why") behind this publication stage. We use the entire publication content with sharp-edged prompt in order to generate a very short sentence / paragraph explaining the invention. This part is very useful to dive in patent's content  in 10 seconds and catch the invention. 

• Advantages

AI-Assistant offers here a regenerated version of "Advantages & Drawbacks over prior art" if existing in the selected publication. When this part does not exist, our prompt has been designed to provide it anyway.

• Examples

Most of the time, the applicant tends to expose and provide one or many examples where the invention as described, may provide improvements over prior art, or preferred  method, or best synthesis ways etc... If the publication includes way more than few examples, your AI-Assistant will selected the preferred one as potentially written in Description or Examples annexes (/DESX field for US publications only)

• Optional Additional Information

Finally, this part will try to show the publication's content under a different enlightening, offered by the AI-language model.  You can consider as another enhanced abstract or complement of above generated content. Some useful insights may appear here. 

Claims rewrite

Patent claims reading is a difficult exercise for whom not prepared and trained. However this part of publication may provide critical technical insights, not only a legal part of a patent. 

Our feature provides a regenerated version of claims, respecting as much as possible the existing claims structure, with a simple purpose: improve your reading and understanding of claims.

Dependency link will appear between claims, however not all dependencies will be shown when the original text is not clear enough or too complex. As reminded in the Claims summary here above, please do not consider this generated text as a legal and ready-to use for an FTO analysis.

Claim graph

To make the claims easier to read, we introduce a claims graph, organizing the different claims and concepts. Depending of the claims tangling, this graph will display all the links or the "main" links. 

The structure is the following:

1. A element/item/device/compound
2. Verb - mostly action verb
3. Another element/item/device/compound 

As always, this useful graphical version of claims does not prevent an in-depth reading of claims, and a cross-check with the current claims set in patent.