Patentology

Patents are won a yard at a time.

Prosecution is a long drive against a defense that has seen every play: the reference you didn't find, the § 101 rejection you could have seen coming, the drafting penalty that costs a series. Patentology is the film room for patent practitioners. It maps the field before the snap, tests claims the way an examiner will, and builds replies on the authority that decides appeals.

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Drive chart of one patent application Eight plays from the own 25-yard line to the end zone: disclosure, prior art and claims gain ground; a drafting penalty is caught and declined; a section 101 final rejection loses eleven yards; the response, interview and allowance carry the drive into the end zone. DISCLOSURE ISSUED 10 20 30 40 50 40 30 20 10 1 Disclosure mapped 2 Prior art and whitespace 3 Claims drafted and scored 4 Penalty caught: § 112(b) 5 Sack: § 101 final rejection 6 Response built on the right authority 7 Interview and amendment 8 Allowance
Anatomy of a drive. One application, from disclosure to issue. Simplified; real drives take years.

The drive, play by play

Prosecution rarely moves in a straight line, and it is measured in years, not weeks (the USPTO publishes its pendency figures). Here is where the yards are gained and lost, and what Patentology does on each play.

  1. 11st & 10, own 25

    Disclosure

    The inventor's story arrives in ten parts: the problem, the architecture, what is different, who will pay for it. The first question is not whether it is clever. It is where it sits on the field.

    ClassificationMaps the disclosure to CPC groups, the likely examining group, and the § 101 exposure that comes with that neighborhood.

  2. 21st & 10, own 37

    Prior art

    Every defense has film on you. The examiner will find the closest reference; it is better that you find it first, and know which of your features it actually covers.

    Whitespace checkMarks each disclosed feature Available, Contested or Taken against the closest art, the way you would check a domain name before building on it.

  3. 31st & 10, midfield

    Claims

    The independent claim is the play call. Recite a result and you invite the abstract-idea rejection. Recite the mechanism, the structure that produces the result, and you give the examiner something concrete to measure.

    Eligibility and novelty scoringA regression model scores every claim, shows which language is costing you, and ranks refined versions of the independent claim.

  4. 4Flag on the play

    Penalty, declined

    A missing antecedent is a holding call: small, avoidable, and expensive at the worst possible moment. On appeal it can surface as a new ground of rejection.

    Claim linterAntecedent basis, ambiguous references, § 112(f) triggers and terms of degree, caught before filing rather than after.

  5. 52nd & 10, opp 37

    Final rejection

    The sack. An abstract-idea rejection under § 101, most often in the art units where it is most common. It is not the end of the drive. It is the moment the drive is decided.

    Rationale readingReads the action and names what the examiner actually relied on: the grouping, the "apply it" theory, conventionality asserted without evidence.

  6. 63rd & 21, opp 48

    The response

    Third and long is where preparation shows: the specification you already wrote, the authority that binds the Board, and the adverse cases answered before anyone raises them.

    Reply builderAn outline in the structure appeals are won with, supporting and adverse authority side by side, exported to Word for your edit.

  7. 71st & 10, opp 21

    Red zone

    Near the goal line the field compresses. An interview, a targeted amendment, a claim narrowed by exactly the limitation that matters and nothing more.

    Practitioner benchWhen the matter needs another set of hands, registered practitioners by state and technology, drawn only from the USPTO's public roster.

  8. 81st & goal, opp 7

    Allowance

    The notice of allowance. Years of work, judged in the end by one document and the claims it protects. The score was always going to be decided by the earlier downs.

    The case fileEvery analysis, score and draft for the matter in one place, exportable when the client asks how you got here.

What's in the playbook

Built for registered patent attorneys and agents working in AI, healthcare, medical devices, social platforms and telecom, and the fields that sit between them.

Whitespace check

Searches the prior-art corpus and live patent data, then tests each feature of the disclosure on its own. You see which ideas are open ground and which reference sits on the rest.

Claim linter

Reads claims the way an examiner's red pen does. Run against a real appealed application in healthcare informatics, it flagged every drafting defect a manual review found, and two it missed.

Eligibility and novelty scoring

A logistic-regression model that shows its work: every factor that raises or lowers a claim's § 101 and novelty scores, and what to change. Train it on your own outcomes and it learns your art units.

Office-action replies

Paste the action. Get the active and withdrawn grounds, the examiner's theories, the authority on both sides, and a structured draft you can take into Word.

Practitioner bench

Matches by state and technology from the USPTO's public roster of registered practitioners. Never generated, never guessed.

Private by design

Each firm's matters are visible only to its own users. AI drafting can be switched off entirely for disclosures that should never leave the building.

The call stays yours.

Film study doesn't play the game. Patentology shows a registered practitioner where the field is open, where the defense will line up, and which mistakes cost yards. Every claim, argument and filing decision belongs to the professional who signs it.

  • Not a law firm.Patentology does not give legal advice and does not create an attorney-client relationship.
  • Not a verdict.Availability labels and scores are screening signals, not opinions on patentability or freedom to operate.
  • Not a shortcut on citations.Every authority it surfaces is meant to be read and verified before it is relied on.

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Patentology is opening to registered patent attorneys, patent agents and the firms they work in. Tell us your practice area and the art units you see most, and we will set up your firm's workspace.

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