An AI is going to read my patent application. What does that actually mean?
It means a language model receives selected pages of your document in a single request, returns a structured summary, and is given no authority over anything that matters.
It does not calculate your deadline, it cannot report a fact without citing the page it came from, its uncertainty is shown to you rather than smoothed over, and a person checks its output before you see it.
The pipeline, step by step
Validation
The file must genuinely be a PDF, within the size and page limits, unencrypted, structurally sound and free of embedded active content. Anything else is refused with a specific reason and is not processed.
Private storage
The document is written to encrypted object storage with no public access. There is no URL that serves it to the public web, and the application never returns document bytes to a browser.
Deterministic extraction
Our own code reads the text layer for the facts that have reliable printed forms: application number, mailing date, examiner, art unit, statutory headings, claim numbers and cited references. Each fact records the page it was found on.
Model analysis
Selected pages are sent to a language model through OpenRouter for the summary and for classifying cases the deterministic pass could not settle. The model is configurable and the API key is held server-side only.
Grounding and confidence
Every fact returned by the model must resolve to a page in your document. Facts that do not are discarded rather than shown. Low-confidence facts are marked uncertain, and where confidence is too low overall we abstain and route the document to a person.
Deterministic deadline calculation
The reply period is calculated by rules-based code from the mailing date and the action type. No model is involved in that calculation, in either direction.
Human review
A reviewer checks the output against the document before it reaches you.
Validation
The file must genuinely be a PDF, within the size and page limits, unencrypted, structurally sound and free of embedded active content. Anything else is refused with a specific reason and is not processed.
Private storage
The document is written to encrypted object storage with no public access. There is no URL that serves it to the public web, and the application never returns document bytes to a browser.
Deterministic extraction
Our own code reads the text layer for the facts that have reliable printed forms: application number, mailing date, examiner, art unit, statutory headings, claim numbers and cited references. Each fact records the page it was found on.
Model analysis
Selected pages are sent to a language model through OpenRouter for the summary and for classifying cases the deterministic pass could not settle. The model is configurable and the API key is held server-side only.
Grounding and confidence
Every fact returned by the model must resolve to a page in your document. Facts that do not are discarded rather than shown. Low-confidence facts are marked uncertain, and where confidence is too low overall we abstain and route the document to a person.
Deterministic deadline calculation
The reply period is calculated by rules-based code from the mailing date and the action type. No model is involved in that calculation, in either direction.
Human review
A reviewer checks the output against the document before it reaches you.
What we do not do
We do not use your document to train or fine-tune any model.
We do not make your document reachable by any public URL.
We do not send your document to a provider by handing them a link to fetch it; the pages we send are transmitted directly in the request.
We do not let a model calculate your deadline.
We do not let a model draft a response to the USPTO.
We do not show you a fact that cannot be traced to a page in your document.
If automated analysis is switched off
The service has a switch that disables model analysis entirely. With it off, you still get the deterministic extraction, the reply period, and human review — the summary is shorter and more literal. This is a supported mode of operation rather than a failure state, and the interface tells you when you are in it.
Deletion
Ask, and we delete the stored file, the extracted text, any page images, the analysis output and any cached artifact derived from your document. We record that the deletion happened and when. What remains is the case record without document content, so that we can show what we told you and when.