AI for Patents in Every Jurisdiction

Patent law may be global in scope but local in practice, forcing attorneys to navigate complex and often conflicting jurisdictional requirements.

Drawing on their expertise in AI-driven patent drafting, Harry Bedford, Founding Member of Legal & Product Team at Solve Intelligence shows how jurisdiction-aware tools like Patent Copilot can embed local requirements directly into the drafting process, enabling attorneys to move from reactive adaptation to proactive, globally consistent strategies.

Patent attorneys work in a global market, but patent law operates on a local level. Each jurisdiction has its own laws, examination practices, and procedural requirements that transform what should be a unified global strategy into a complex web of compromises for different countries.

This fragmentation creates daily challenges for practitioners. The ability to draft and prosecute applications across jurisdictions is one of the profession’s most commercially valuable skills, and the best outcomes come when these differences are considered during drafting – before an application is even filed.

AI offers a new way to address this complexity. By embedding the requirements of multiple jurisdictions directly into the drafting process, AI can help patent attorneys produce applications that are ready for the combinations of offices their clients’ business strategies demand.

Too often, drafting follows a reactive path. Attorneys draft to satisfy the requirements of one office (usually their local office), and only later adapt for others. Of course, sometimes it is difficult to plan ahead if it is not clear at the outset whether an application will eventually form a multinational family. The issue however is that, once an application is drafted and filed, it can be very difficult to adapt it sufficiently to meet the requirements of other offices without adding subject matter. Taking the EPO and US as examples, a number of issues often arise:

Reacting to these types of issues after drafting may lead to inconsistent claim scope across jurisdictions, and increased costs from repeated amendments and local counsel reviews.

AI already has the capability to help patent attorneys manage these differing jurisdictional requirements. Solve Intelligence's Patent Copilot has several features that are helping attorneys work more efficiently. 

Firstly, Patent Copilot employs jurisdiction-specific AI algorithms built by attorneys qualified in those jurisdictions. These algorithms form 'region drafters' that are easily selectable by an attorney. Each drafter is configured to adhere to specific requirements, conventions, and best practices of respective patent offices. When drafting any section of an application - whether it be the background, summary, description or claims - attorneys can simply select their target jurisdiction and language from a dropdown menu, and the appropriate region drafter is loaded for use.

Consider the differences in how Solve Intelligence's Patent Copilot's EPO and USPTO claim drafters operate:

Of course, in addition to the US and EPO, Solve Intelligence supports all key jurisdictions in this manner, including Canada, China, Japan and South Korea.

Secondly, Patent Copilot offers extensive customisation capabilities that allow attorneys to create jurisdiction-specific templates tailored to their practice and client needs. Beyond selecting individual jurisdictions, attorneys can configure the AI to draft in their particular style while simultaneously incorporating a mixture of jurisdictional requirements into a single, cohesive template.

This template-based approach enables attorneys to pre-configure the AI and its region drafters to automatically blend the requirements of multiple target jurisdictions. For instance, an attorney working with a client seeking protection in both the US and EPO can create a template that incorporates US claim drafting with EPO language for support of claim combinations and their technical contributions. The attorney simply loads the appropriate template, and the AI automatically drafts according to the preconfigured jurisdictional requirements.

Drafting is standardised across all applications that use the same template, ensuring consistency in approach and quality. This ultimately reduces the burden on the attorney, allowing them to focus on the substantive legal and technical aspects of the invention rather than constantly switching between different jurisdictional mindsets during the drafting process.

Thirdly, Solve Intelligence's Patent Copilot provides intelligent rewriting capabilities based on saveable instructions that dramatically reduce adaptation time when jurisdictional conversion becomes necessary. Rather than requiring attorneys to manually redraft entire sections, the system can execute targeted transformations using pre-configured conversion rules.

For example, attorneys can save instructions to rewrite summary sections according to a European format, or automatically adjust a set of US claims to include multiple dependencies whilst bringing the total number of claims down to 15. When applied to existing applications, these saved instructions can also automatically identify relevant support and restructure content according to the target jurisdiction's requirements.

These rewriting capabilities prove particularly valuable when prosecution strategies evolve or when clients decide to expand their filing programs after initial applications are already drafted and filed. Instead of starting from scratch or spending hours manually adapting existing content, attorneys can apply their saved conversion instructions to transform applications efficiently while maintaining consistency with their established practice standards. Of course, rewrites are always tracked for attorney review, keeping the attorney in control throughout the process.

The jurisdictional challenges that come with entering Europe from a foreign filing are already being addressed by AI technology. Solve Intelligence's Patent Copilot is already enabling many European attorneys to produce or amend applications that meet the specific requirements of the EPC in much shorter timescales, without sacrificing on quality.

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