The PatentEngine Drafting Suite – An Easy-To-Use Powertool For Professionals

The first thing that jumps at you when you check out PatentEngine is the fact that there is no promise such as “the software drafts the patent for you”. The user must deliberately select and insert each and every piece of text into the patent draft that is prepared with the PatentEngine tool. The software makes suggestions for what you should put there but these suggestions are taken from boilerplate texts, and they are not generated from scratch by an algorithm.

That does not sound like being a time saver, but it is: according to measurements done by actual users of the PatentEngine which are German patent professionals, the minimum time saving per patent draft is 20%. And it can be up to 50% if you have built up boilerplate libraries for your specific technical area.

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