AI drafting tools and pro se filing have put patent applications within reach of every inventor. The documents they produce look finished. Some of them are. The rest carry defects that no non-practitioner can see, and that surface during examination, sometimes after the point where they can be repaired.
The Application Review is a bounded, fixed-fee engagement: a registered U.S. patent attorney reads your application the way an examiner will, and the way an opposing lawyer would, and tells you in writing where you stand.
What We Check
Claims. Whether they are drafted to the mechanism or merely to the product, whether the scope is worth owning, and whether antecedent basis and definiteness problems under Section 112(b) are waiting in your first office action.
Specification support. Whether the written description enables what the claims recite, and what fallback positions exist if prior art forces an amendment. This is the one that cannot be fixed after filing, which is why it is checked first.
Drawings. Compliance with 37 CFR 1.84, and whether every reference numeral in the figures matches the description. Objections here are routine in self-prepared filings and entirely avoidable.
Formalities. Application Data Sheet, declarations, abstract, entity status, and anything that has drawn or will draw a Notice to File Missing Parts.
Citations. Every reference verified against the actual document. AI tools fabricate citations, and the duty of disclosure under 37 CFR 1.56 makes unverified references a genuine hazard rather than a formatting issue.
Deadlines. Your current docket position: what has been mailed, what response periods are running, what extensions remain, and exactly which dates cannot move.
What You Receive
A written review memo covering each item above, a call to walk through it, and a fix plan that separates three categories honestly: what is fine as filed, what is repairable during prosecution, and what cannot be fixed and what your options are because of it.
The memo is yours. You can act on it with us, with another attorney, or on your own.
What a Review Cannot Do
It cannot add new matter to a filed application, revive rights that a statutory bar has extinguished, or turn a fundamentally unsupported claim into a supported one. Where that is the situation, the memo says so plainly and lays out what a new filing could still protect. You should be suspicious of any review that promises more.
Fee
A flat fixed fee, quoted before work begins, based on the length and status of your application. No hourly billing and no obligation beyond the review itself.
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Common Questions
I used AI to draft my patent application. Is that a problem?
Not necessarily. AI drafting tools produce fluent documents, and some of what they produce is fine. The problem is that the defects they introduce are invisible to a non-practitioner and surface during examination, sometimes after they can no longer be fixed. A review tells you which situation you are in while your options are still open.
My application was already filed. Can defects still be fixed?
Some can and some cannot. Claims can be amended during prosecution. New matter can never be added after filing, so a specification gap is permanent, but there are often filing strategies, such as a continuation-in-part or a new application, that preserve what you have while repairing what you can. The review distinguishes the two honestly.
What if my application is fine?
Then the review says so, and you have spent a fixed fee to know rather than hope. A significant fraction of reviews conclude that the application is workable with modest amendments during prosecution.
I already received an office action. Is it too late?
No, but the clock is running. An office action typically carries a three month shortened statutory period, extendable to six with escalating fees. Bring the office action to the review and the fix plan is built around your actual deadline.
Will you tell me to just refile with you?
Only if that is genuinely the right answer, and often it is not. The written memo states what is repairable in place, what requires a new filing, and what is fine as it stands. You can take that memo to any attorney, including one who is not us.