摘要 |
<p>A machine and method for drafting a patent application. The computer requests and stores information regarding the invention including qualities and benefits of the invention over the prior art, primary elements that distinguish the invention apart from prior technology, secondary elements that may be important but not necessary to distinguish over prior technology and substitute elements that may be substituted or modified to avoid the primary and secondary elements but not depart from the invention. The qualities and benefits are entered before the objects of invention are drafted, the primary elements are entered before the independent claims are drafted, the secondary and substitute elements are entered before the dependent claims are drafted which in turn is before the abstract (100) is drafted, and all claims are drafted before the detailed description (170) of a proffered embodiment is drafted.</p> |