A Revolutionary Claims Comparison Tool: The Evolved Claim™ Report on Patent Workbench®
The Claims Matrix is just one of many cutting edge claims tools available through the Patent Workbench® Reader. Today we’ll look at another tool that will change the way you analyze patent file histories: the Evolved Claim™. The Evolved Claim™ allows you to see the complete evolution of the claims in a list view. You can select one or multiple claims and view text comparisons between each consecutive version of the claim. The most revolutionary feature, however, is that the tool displays a single Evolved Claim™ which shows, at a glance, all changes that occurred to the claim from the time it was introduced until the time it became a patented claim or was cancelled.
Read on to learn about the process of creating an Evolved Claim™ report, and why this claims tool will make your file history analysis more efficient and thorough!
Collaborative Notes on the Patent File History through Patent Workbench®
Users can add notes to every section of the patent file history in the Patent Workbench® Reader:
- Add notes to file history information sections in the File History module.
- Add notes to individual claims in the Claims Matrix.
- Add notes to individual references or entire reference sections.
- Add notes to any paper of the patent file history in the PDF viewer.
All notes can be included in searches of the whole patent file history, and the entire notebook can be exported in .doc format. Read on to learn how patent professionals can use the note features in Patent Workbench® to collaborate with their colleagues during the patent file history analysis process!
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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