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Essential frameworks, guides, and tools for navigating innovation,
creativity, and ownership in the AI era.
Looking for fill-in worksheets? Browse the Document Templates hub, disclosure forms for inventors, plus §101/§103 work-aids for practitioners.
Before the PTAB
Four authorities on PTAB institution and review, current through the October 2025 and March 2026 memoranda. One is still only a proposal. Authority level and date on every page.
Read the ClusterFiling and Fees
Four changes to what a filing costs and how it must be made. No thresholds or qualification criteria, on purpose.
Read the ClusterDuties, and Who May Practise
Candor and reasonable inquiry, AI tools before the Office, foreign-applicant representation, and three 2024 rules on who may appear.
Read the ClusterInvention Disclosure Form
A comprehensive, patent-bar-first invention disclosure form: conception date, prior and planned public disclosure, outside collaboration, inventorship, the technical description, and prior-art context.
Get the FormSoftware §101 Eligibility Worksheet
An Alice/§101 scaffold for software: name the abstract-idea risk, the technical improvement and its evidence, meaningful integration, real-world effect, and hardware integration points. Practitioner work-aid.
Get the WorksheetNon-Obviousness Worksheet
A §103 scaffold: define PHOSITA, map the prior-art landscape, capture the closest reference combinations, articulate why PHOSITA wouldn't combine them, and record secondary indicia. Practitioner work-aid.
Get the WorksheetClaim Scope Ladder
A graduated-specificity scaffold: capture the invention at narrow, intermediate, and broad rungs, check disclosure support for each, anchor to the commercial embodiment, and run a design-around self-test.
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