What is Prompt Assistant
Prompt assistant uses your AI search query to automatically generate a helpful set of prompts focused to the exact technology at hand and for the use case in question.
Currently, we have assistants for four use cases
Prior Art review
For Novelty, Patentability and Invalidity studies
Freedom to Operate Review
For FTO and infringement analyses
Technical Insights
For R&D use, technology landscaping, problem and solution analyses
Targeted Summaries
For summarizing results according to multiple aspects of the query
Prompt Assistant is available in
Free text search
Uses the free text query
Number search
Uses the selected Claim (Claim-focused search) or Abstract of the document (Full specification or All claims search)
Image search
Uses the AI-generated claim
Prompt assistant requires AI Assistant features to be enabled on your account.
How to use Prompt Assistant
You can find Prompt Assistant in the Shortcuts menu of the Single-patent Ask AI drawer or Multi-patent Ask AI box.
When clicking any of the options, the user will be provided with
A single-shot prompt that covers many aspects of the technology at once, AND
Multiple individual prompts that cover particular technical features, problems, solutions or topics.
After selection of the prompt, the user can edit the automatically generated prompt, before applying it, if needed.
Depending on the use case, the prompts are either Smart filter questions (Prior Art and FTO Review) or open-ended Ask AI questions (Technical Insights and Targeted Summarization). Examples are provided below.
Examples
Next, all of the Use cases are illustrated with a simple Free Text search case with the following query:
binoculars having automatic bird species detection system
Prior Art Review Questions
The aim of Prior Art Review questions is to find out whether all features of the query or any particular feature of the query is present in the document. Therefore the assistant breaks the query into features F1, F2, ... and makes a single-shot question and multiple targeted questions Q1, Q1, ... accordingly:
The assisted Prior Art Review questions are Smart filter -compatible, i.e. YES/NO questions.
Exemplary answer:
Freedom to Operate Review Questions
The aim of Freedom to Operate Review questions is to find out whether the features of the query fall within the limitations (L1, L2, ...) of the of claims of the document. Therefore the assistant breaks the query into features F1, F2, ... and makes a single-shot question and multiple targeted questions Q1, Q1, ... accordingly:
The assisted Freedom to Operate Review questions are Smart filter -compatible, i.e. YES/NO questions.
⚠️ Disclaimer: The FTO problem is hard for AI and often more vaguely defined than Prior Art Review problem! Generative AI models often have difficulties in understanding the scope of limitations, and comparing them to the query, in particular when the amount of context is low. While the assistant can help you review the results faster and spot potentially interesting patents fast and with higher confidence, we recommend reviewing the results also manually.⚠️
An exemplary answer to a single-shot FTO prompt (including some assumptions and interpretations that may or may not hold).
Technical Insights Prompts
The aim of Technical Insights prompts is to get visibility in the problems addressed and solutions disclosed by the document, that relate to problems/solutions that can be inferred from the query. Therefore the assistant detects problems and solutions from the query and and makes a single-shot question and multiple targeted prompts accordingly:
Technical Insights prompts a re open-ended. Here's an exemplary answer to single-shot prompt:
Targeted Summarization Prompts
Targeted summarization prompt assistant picks a few key technical topics from the query and generates prompts that allow getting related information from the document at hand in summarized form.
Exemplary answer:
