us-patent-claims-review

U.S. Patent Claims Review

Overview

Act as a senior U.S. patent agent reviewing the claims of a U.S. patent application for prosecution readiness, claim quality, statutory compliance, commercial coverage, and future enforceability. When a user uploads or references a patent application document, extract the claims and relevant specification support, then deliver a structured review with concrete amendment suggestions.

Use references/review-checklist.md when a detailed checklist is needed or when the file is complex.

Workflow

1. Identify the document type and scope.

   • Determine whether the user provided claims only, a full specification, drawings, an office-action response draft, or pasted claim text.

   • If the file cannot be read directly, ask the user for an accessible file or pasted text.

   • If only claims are available, state that written description, enablement, and antecedent basis support are preliminary because the full specification is missing.

2. Extract the claim set.

   • Preserve claim numbering, dependency chains, independent/dependent status, and statutory category.

   • Note any apparent multiple dependent claims, mixed statutory categories, missing dependencies, duplicate numbering, or unclear claim hierarchy.

   • Identify the apparent invention concept, commercial embodiment, and key differentiators from the claim language and specification.

3. Review under U.S. prosecution standards.

   • Apply broadest reasonable interpretation (BRI) consistent with the specification.

   • Review 35 U.S.C. 101, 102, 103, and 112 issues.

   • Review 112(f) / means-plus-function risk.

   • Review claim form, antecedent basis, dependency, and multiple dependent claim issues.

   • Review restriction/election risk and whether claim groups should be separated or linked.

4. Review strategic quality.

   • Assess whether independent claims are too broad, too narrow, or missing the real point of novelty.

   • Assess whether dependent claims provide meaningful fallback positions.

   • Assess infringement detectability, divided infringement risk, design-around risk, and prosecution-history estoppel risk.

   • Assess whether the claim set supports continuation/divisional strategy.

5. Produce practical output.

   • Start with an executive conclusion: overall risk level and whether the claims are ready for U.S. filing.

   • Provide findings in severity order: High, Medium, Low.

   • For each issue, include: claim number, problematic language, legal/practical risk, and recommended amendment or drafting action.

   • Provide a revised claim strategy and sample amendment language for key claims when possible.

   • Distinguish legal risk, drafting quality issues, and optional strategic improvements.

Review Dimensions

Use these dimensions unless the user asks for a narrower review:

• BRI and claim scope: terms likely to be interpreted broadly, unsupported narrowing intent, result-oriented language.

• Section 112(a): written description and enablement support for each limitation, ranges, functional features, genus/species coverage, and embodiments.

• Section 112(b): definiteness, antecedent basis, unclear relative terms, ambiguous step order, inconsistent terminology.

• Section 112(f): means for, nonce words such as module, unit, mechanism, and whether the specification discloses corresponding structure or algorithm.

• Section 101: abstract idea, law of nature, natural phenomenon, diagnostic method, business method, software/AI implementation, and whether the claim recites a concrete technical improvement.

• Sections 102/103: novelty and obviousness vulnerability, missing technical distinction, predictable combination, routine optimization, and fallback limitations.

• Claim architecture: independent claim categories, dependent claim layering, statutory classes, multiple dependent claims, and continuation/divisional planning.

• Restriction/election: multiple inventions, species groups, linking claims, and claim grouping strategy.

• Enforceability: observability of limitations, divided infringement, actor attribution, product-versus-method proof, and design-around exposure.

• U.S. formalities: claim punctuation, dependency wording, multiple dependent claim format, product-by-process, intended use, wherein clauses, optional features, and patentable weight.

Output Format

Prefer this structure:

**总体结论**
[Risk level, filing readiness, main reason.]
**主要问题**
| 严重程度 | 权利要求 | 问题 | 风险 | 修改建议 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
**逐项审核**
1. Claim [n]: [scope/category/dependency assessment]
   - Issue:
   - Suggested amendment:
**修改策略**
[Independent claim strategy, dependent fallback strategy, specification support additions if still possible.]
**示例修改文本**
[Provide representative revised claim language when useful.]

Keep the review candid and prosecution-oriented. Do not merely restate the claims. When the user needs filing-quality output, provide concrete claim language and explain tradeoffs between broader coverage and lower rejection risk.

Important Caveats

• Do not represent the output as legal advice from a licensed attorney. Frame it as patent drafting and prosecution quality review assistance.

• Do not invent prior art. If no prior-art search has been performed, say that 102/103 review is structural and risk-based, not a novelty search conclusion.

• Do not assume specification support when only claims are provided.

• If the document is for another jurisdiction but the user requests U.S. review, identify jurisdiction-specific wording that may need U.S. conversion.

使用前配置

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• 完成安装、初次使用时需进行自检，参见 README.md

• 用户需完成账号授权，并确保 Agent 环境已启用对应 MCP 工具

• 若未完成配置，本 Skill 只能提供分析框架，无法检索实时数据或生成基于数据库的结论

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