LexisNexis® PatentOptimizer^™

A better way to prosecute and litigate patents

The PatentOptimizer^™ service is a revolutionary, automated way to construct and deconstruct patents. Designed specifically for the drafting and analysis of patent applications (for patent prosecution), and the analysis and dissection of granted patents (for patent litigation), PatentOptimizer provides your clients with the best-quality legal analysis and work product in patent prosecution and litigation without overextending your resources.

• Decrease patent drafting time while producing airtight patent applications.
  PatentOptimizer serves as a critical quality-control check in the patent drafting process. You can check your patent application for use of terms across claims and description, and check references for accuracy and consistency on the fly. Enter a fully formatted patent citation, including a hyperlink to the referenced patent, in your patent application automatically.
• Analyze thoroughly/assess accurately the strengths and weaknesses of granted patents — in less time. PatentOptimizer streamlines the patent analysis process. You can assess the strengths and weaknesses of a granted patent — belonging to your client or its competitors — by checking use of terms across claims and description, by checking patent references, by finding cases in which a court has interpreted the meanings of key terms, and by validating such cases ... all with just a few clicks.
• Make the practice of patent law more profitable. PatentOptimizer helps you save time and give your clients confidence that their patent prosecution and litigation work is being done in a thorough, accurate, and efficient manner.

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Discover how PatentOptimizer^™ can help you mitigate legal risk and work more efficiently.

• Check Terms — Uncover, retrieve, and validate cases that have defined key terms in your document. Identify prior art usage in other patents. Find narrower, broader, or related alternate terms.
• Check References — View a comprehensive post-issuance activity report for cited patents (with Microsoft^® Excel^® export capabilities). Retrieve related case dockets from LexisNexis^® CourtLink^®. Order pertinent file wrappers from REEDFAX^®. Export patent references into IDS forms. Link to relevant entries in the USPTO PAIR system.
• Check Measurements — Automatically detects and converts common English measurements into metric.
• Check Parts— Check the accuracy and consistency of your reference figures and related numbers/labels. Correct inconsistencies with flexible document-editing capabilities.
• Check Claims — Detect the term and phrase differential in claims versus descriptions instantly. Check antecedent basis effortlessly. Generate claim charts on the fly.
• Compare Claims — Detects new and deleted matter appearing in the claims or specification of a defined set of documents.
• LexisNexis^® Patent Research — Launch the LexisNexis Patent Research Tasks page, an interface designed specifically for the patent practitioner.
• Web Search — Search a multitude of web search engines for particular terms in a patent.
• Dictionary and Thesaurus — Link to some of the most popular dictionaries and thesauri on the Internet.
• Patent Citation — Insert fully formatted patent citations into your document, including a hyperlink for the referenced patent.
• Mark Terms — Load the Attorney's Dictionary of Patent Claims, the Ei Compendex^® Thesaurus, and the Lexis^® service
• Update Claim References — Re-numbers claims and claim references to reflect recent updates/amendments made to the claims.
• Remove Markup — Remove hypertext markup from marked claims and linked citations.

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