IP Author

IP Author is a patent-focused AI platform for law firms and corporate IP teams. It drafts claims and specifications from an invention disclosure, runs global prior art searches, and builds first-pass Office Action responses, with a free standalone tool for examiner and rejection analysis.

IP Author is a legal AI platform aimed at patent prosecution work rather than general writing. It bundles four connected modules into one workspace: invention disclosure capture, patent drafting, prior art search and Office Action responses. The pitch is speed on tasks that normally consume days of attorney time, and the product is positioned for corporate patent groups and IP law firms rather than individual inventors. The drafting module works from the invention disclosure. It reads the stated problem and solution, then generates claims and a specification with editable flowcharts and block diagrams, keeping figure, sequence and chemical structure references consistent across the document. The company cites a complete draft in about 15 minutes. Search runs across patent and non-patent literature with filters for jurisdiction, CPC and IPC classes, assignees and publication details, plus similarity scoring and novelty summaries; the firm reports results comparable to a human searcher in 19 of 20 cases, at two minutes instead of four to six hours. The Office Action module summarizes examiner objections, detects 112, 102 and 103 issues, maps references to claim elements and drafts first-pass arguments, with the company claiming a 70 to 80 percent cut in response drafting time. A free companion site, insights.ipauthor.com, adds examiner allowance rates, precedent grants and response strategy for any application or company. Practically, attorneys stay in the loop: review, editing and final decisions remain with the practitioner, and the tool is framed as a first-draft accelerator. A customer advisory board of IP practitioners and named users at Qualcomm, Chevron, ResMed and Elmos signals enterprise intent. Security claims cover SOC 2 Type II, no training on customer data and zero data retention options. Against generic assistants, the differentiator is patent-specific structure and jurisdiction-aware claim drafting. Against manual search vendors, it competes on turnaround. ChatGPT and Claude connectors let teams run search and office action analysis inside an assistant they already use.