Exporting the Claims Matrix on Patent Workbench®
If you want to share papers or information from a patent file history with your clients and colleagues, then Patent Workbench® has a number of flexible export features to meet your needs. We’ve already looked at a variety of export options:
- Exporting directly from the “Papers by Type” and “Papers by Date” tabs.
- Exporting a PDF of selected papers from the “Main Export” window.
- Exporting information about the file history in DOC format.
You can also export the Claims Matrix, one of the most unique features available on Patent Workbench®, into an .XLS (Microsoft Excel) format. Read on to learn about the Claims Matrix export options!
Exporting Information about the File History in Patent Workbench®
Flexible export capabilities are an important feature of the Patent Workbench® Reader, because they allow patent attorneys to export and share any patent file history paper, reference, note, Claims Matrix, or Evolved Claim™ that they produce or view within the Patent Workbench® Reader. At the request of patent attorneys, the Patent Workbench® Reader even includes an option to export the Claim Tree produced within the Reader. We’ve already looked at the PDF export options for patent file history documents; but what if the user wants to export the information about various documents within the patent file history? The detailed information about the papers within the file history, such as links to particular sections in the paper, the Claims Summary, and the Special Notes by Landon IP’s experienced IP Researchers, can be selectively exported into a Microsoft Word document through two different methods.
Read on to learn the two ways you can export specific patent file history information into .doc format!
The Main Export Window: Create a Custom PDF of Selected Papers in Patent Workbench®
The Patent Workbench® Reader allows patent attorneys to view, organize, annotate, compare, and search patent file history papers, references, and notes, but what if these papers need to be exported to send to a colleague? Powerful export capabilities are an integral part of the Patent Workbench® Reader, and patent attorneys can export all file history information, papers, references, and notes through multiple paths and in a variety of formats. Read on to learn about one important export feature that all patent attorneys will want to use: exporting selected papers from the file history in .pdf format through the “Main Export” window.
The Patent Workbench® Reader gives patent attorneys a variety of tools for viewing, searching, and analyzing a patent file history. Patent attorneys often need to share file history papers with colleagues and clients outside of the Patent Workbench® Reader, though, so the Reader includes a number of useful export options that allow users to share all file history information, papers, references, notes, Claims Matrices, Evolved Claims, and even Claim Trees. Today, we’ll look at export features that allow users to quickly export selected papers or paper information organized by date or type. Read on to learn how you can export office actions and responses in a single PDF document through Patent Workbench®!
User-Requested Features on Patent Workbench®: Claim Tree Export
During development of Patent Workbench®, patent attorneys requested certain features to make reviewing the patent file history an easier, more efficient process. Last week, we looked at the “Select Papers” tab, which is a user-requested feature for creating a customized view of information on selected papers in the “File History” module. Today we’ll focus on the Claim Tree Export option, another tool added to Patent Workbench® based on user input.
User-Requested Features on Patent Workbench®: “Select Papers” Tab
Patent Workbench® includes a wide variety of tools and features for helping patent attorneys more efficiently review and analyze patent file histories. In previous posts, we’ve taken a high-level look at the main tool types on Patent Workbench®:
- The File History Tools
- The Search Tool
- The Text Comparison Tool
- The Claims Matrix
- The The Reference Tool
Now we’ll focus on tools that were added to Patent Workbench® because they were requested by users. Patent Workbench® was developed with the input of patent attorneys, who specifically requested the inclusion of certain features that they felt would improve the process of reviewing file histories. Let’s look at the first in a series of features added to Patent Workbench® based on user requests: the “Select Papers” tab.
Search and Annotate References with Patent Workbench®
Here at the Patent Workbench® Blog, we’ve gone over some high level analysis on several of the features that make Patent Workbench® an essential tool for anyone that works with file histories:
- The File History Tools
- The Search Tool
- The Text Comparison Tool
- The Claims Matrix
Today we’ll take you through another major feature of the Patent Workbench® Reader that our customers tell us they can’t live without: The Reference Tool.
Read on to find out how you can incorporate patent references into the file history package to get the total picture of that important case you’re working on!
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Don’t you wish you had a way to be able to see the entire history of each claim within a patent prosecution history without having to manually prepare all of that work yourself?
The Claims Matrix tab within the Patent Workbench™ Reader allows you to see every iteration of every claim throughout the patent prosecution history–side by side and with text comparison notation. This allows you to see how a specific claim changed over the course of the prosecution with the convenience of having the original document (such as the Application or an Amendment) one click away. The table format of the Claims Matrix tab facilitates your analysis in an easy to understand manner.
Read more after the jump for an explanation of how the Claims Matrix works!
Text Comparison with Patent Workbench™
We’ve previously detailed how Patent Workbench™ can boost your productivity, help you view file histories in a whole new light, and search through file histories, references, and your notes quickly and easily.
Today we’ll show you how you can harness the power of Patent Workbench™ — even if you never spend a red cent!
Learn how you can download the Patent Workbench™ Reader for free today to take advantage of our helpful Text Comparison tool without ever requiring any further commitment. You’ll be amazed how much this could help your patent practice!
