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Ideas on AI for patent prosecution
Notes from IP Craft on AI in patent prosecution — drafting, Office-action review, statutory docketing, and the controls that make AI safe for legal work.
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The one-year mark for a patent unintentional-delay petition is a fee-and-explanation step — not a deadline
Effective August 13, 2026, the USPTO raises the fee tier and asks for additional explanation when a petition relying on unintentional delay is filed more than one year after the delay began. It is an administrative escalation, not a bar: petitions remain available beyond one year.
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The USPTO rescinded its AI-inventorship guidance. What governs AI-assisted inventions now?
On November 28, 2025 the USPTO rescinded its AI-inventorship guidance (89 FR 10043) in its entirety (90 FR 54636). The natural-person requirement it rested on did not go away: under Thaler v. Vidal, an AI system cannot be named as an inventor.
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Why every AI patent draft should pass a human-approval gate
AI can accelerate patent drafting and Office-action review, but filings carry statutory and malpractice stakes. The safe pattern is a hard human-approval gate on every AI work product — here's why, and how IP Craft enforces it.
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