AI Patent Guide™ · DIY Provisional Assistance
Example Prompting Guide
A public example of an AI Patent Guide™ assistance document, prepared by Patent Attorney John Ogilvie.
This is a public example document. Your actual AI Patent Guide™ assistance document will be tailored to your specific invention and will contain complete content in every section.
AI Patent Guide™ DIY Assistance
Prepared by Patent Attorney John Ogilvie
Interactive Holographic Environment Simulation System
Section 1 — Welcome and What This Document Is
Welcome to Your AI Patent Guide™ Service
This prompting guide was prepared for you by Patent Attorney John Ogilvie of Ogilvie Law Firm as part of your AI Patent Guide™ service engagement. Please read this entire introduction before using any of the prompts in this guide document.
What this document is.
This document contains a set of prompts — questions and instructions — that you can use with an AI chatbot of your choice to help you write a description of your invention for inclusion in a U.S. provisional patent application. The prompts are tailored based on your description of your invention in the materials you submitted to Ogilvie Law Firm.
What this document is not.
This document is not legal advice about the need for a patent application or the strength of a patent application. It does not tell you whether your invention is patentable. It does not draft patent claims for you. It does not tell you whether your provisional patent application will be legally sufficient for any purpose, or commercially valuable. Following this document is designed to help you produce a better provisional application than you would produce without it — not to guarantee that your application will be complete or effective for any legal or business purpose.
What you will be doing.
You will be using an AI chatbot to help you write a description of your invention. You will then review, edit, and supplement that AI-generated description using your own knowledge of your invention before including it in your provisional patent application. The AI chatbot is a drafting tool — not an expert, and not an attorney.
What Patent Attorney Ogilvie is not doing.
Under your AI Patent Guide™ engagement, Patent Attorney Ogilvie is not reviewing your provisional patent application, not advising you on whether it is sufficient, not conducting a prior art search, not drafting patent claims, and not filing your application. If you want professional preparation and filing of your provisional application, that requires a separate full-service engagement. Contact John Ogilvie at OgilvieLawFirm.com if you want to discuss full-service representation.
Section 2 — What a Provisional Patent Application Is
A Brief Orientation — What You Are Filing and Why Description Matters
A U.S. provisional patent application establishes a priority date for your invention — the date from which your patent rights are measured. It does not itself become a patent. To pursue a patent, you must file a nonprovisional application within 12 months of your provisional filing date.
The most important part of your provisional application is the written description of your invention. Your eventual patent claims — the legal statements that define what your patent protects — must be supported by the description in your provisional application. If your provisional description does not describe a feature of your invention clearly and completely, you may not be able to effectively claim that feature in your eventual patent, even if you invented it.
A good provisional description is complete, specific, and covers not just your preferred embodiment but also variations and alternatives. It describes not just what your invention does but how it does it, in enough detail that a person with relevant technical knowledge could reproduce it.
The 12-month deadline.
Once you file your provisional application, you have 12 months to file a nonprovisional application if you want to pursue a patent. This deadline is strict. Patent Attorney Ogilvie is not monitoring this deadline for you. You are solely responsible for tracking it.
Section 3 — Important Warnings About Using AI Chatbots
Before you begin using the prompts in this guide document, read these warnings carefully.
This is a public example document. Your actual AI Patent Guide™ assistance document will contain important warnings to help you avoid common mistakes and reduce the risk of using an AI chatbot when writing a patent application.
Section 4 — How to Use These Prompts
The prompts below are organized into sections. Work through them in order.
This is a public example document. Your actual AI Patent Guide™ assistance document will contain important suggestions to help you avoid common mistakes and reduce the risk of using an AI chatbot when writing a patent application.
Section 5 — Tailored Technical Prompts
The prompts in this section have been tailored to the specific invention you described in your submitted materials: an interactive holographic environment simulation system that combines projected light, force fields, and replicated matter to create a physically interactive, spatially unbounded simulated environment within a fixed-size room.
5.1 — Opening Context Prompt
Use this prompt first to orient the AI chatbot to your invention. Paste it exactly as written.
Opening Context — Establishing the Invention
Why this matters: Setting this context at the start helps the AI chatbot give you relevant, specific descriptions rather than generic ones, and makes clear that its role is to help you articulate what you have already conceived.
I need your help writing a detailed technical description of my invention for inclusion in a U.S. patent application. My invention is a room-based system that creates a fully interactive, physically realistic simulated environment. The system uses a combination of projected light, force fields, and replicated matter to generate solid, tactile holographic objects, characters, and settings within a room. Users can enter the room, interact physically with everything in the simulation, and move freely as if in an environment much larger than the room itself. The system can be controlled by voice commands or a manual control terminal. It supports preprogrammed scenarios and user-constructed simulations. A safety protocol system prevents users from being injured during realistic simulations. Your job is to help me describe this invention as clearly, specifically, and completely as possible. Please ask me questions if you need more detail rather than guessing or assuming. Do not add technical ideas I have not given you, and do not suggest implementation approaches I have not described — your role is to help me articulate what I have already conceived, not to propose new technical solutions. Please do not tell me whether you think my invention is novel, obvious, patentable, or eligible for patent protection, and do not identify or mention any existing products, patents, or references that relate to my invention. Please confirm you understand this before we begin.
5.2 — Core Inventive Concept Prompts
These prompts are designed to capture the most distinctive aspects of your invention. For each prompt, describe what you have already designed and at least one specific approach you have in mind — the AI’s job is to help you put your existing conception into words.
The Three-Component Physical Reality System
Why this matters: Describing how your system produces solid, tactile objects — not just visual projections — is one of the most distinctive aspects of your invention and helpful for a complete description.
I want to describe the three-component system my invention uses to create physically solid and interactive simulated objects. My system combines projected light, force fields, and replicated matter working together. Please help me write a description that covers: what role each of the three components plays in creating a simulated object; how the three components coordinate with each other during a simulation; why all three components are needed and what would be missing from the simulation if any one of them were absent; and what the result is for the user — specifically, why the simulated objects feel solid and can be interacted with physically rather than being mere optical projections.
Please describe what you have already designed or decided for each of these aspects, including at least one specific approach you have in mind for each. The AI will help you articulate and draft the description — it should not propose implementation approaches you have not already conceived.
Spatial Expansion Beyond the Physical Room
Why this matters: Your system’s ability to simulate an environment much larger than the physical room is a distinctive technical capability that should be described in detail.
My invention creates the experience of an unbounded environment even though the user is physically inside a room of fixed size. Please help me write a technical description of how the system achieves this. Cover: what the user experiences as they move through the simulated environment; how the system handles the fact that the user does not physically leave the room while experiencing an apparently unlimited space; what technical mechanisms the system uses to create the illusion of travel and unbounded space; and what the practical limits of the simulated space size are, if any.
Please describe what you have already designed or decided for each of these aspects, including at least one specific approach you have in mind for each. The AI will help you articulate and draft the description — it should not propose implementation approaches you have not already conceived.
The Safety Protocol System
Why this matters: The safety protocol system is an important technical subsystem that protects users during realistic simulations — describing how it works helps ensure it is covered in your description.
My invention includes a safety protocol system that prevents users from being injured during realistic simulated scenarios, including scenarios involving simulated combat or violence. Please help me write a technical description of this system that covers: what types of simulated hazards the safety protocols address; how the system detects when a simulated action would cause real injury to a user and what it does in response; the dual-authorization mechanism by which the safety protocols can be disabled — specifically, what the authorization process involves, who must authorize it, and what verification is required; and what the operational state of the system is when protocols are disabled versus when they are active.
Please describe what you have already designed or decided for each of these aspects, including at least one specific approach you have in mind for each. The AI will help you articulate and draft the description — it should not propose implementation approaches you have not already conceived.
5.3 — Technical Implementation Prompts
This is a public example document. Your actual AI Patent Guide™ assistance document will contain one or more prompts designed to capture the technical details of how your invention works.
5.4 — Variations and Alternatives
This is a public example document. Your actual AI Patent Guide™ assistance document will contain one or more prompts designed to capture a range of uses and configurations of your invention beyond the primary embodiment.
5.5 — Field of Use and Commercial Context
This is a public example document. Your actual AI Patent Guide™ assistance document will contain one or more prompts designed to capture fields of use of your invention, to better support licensing in different commercial contexts.
5.6 — Closing Assembly Prompt
This is a public example document. Your actual AI Patent Guide™ assistance document will contain a prompt designed to assemble all your individual descriptions into a single coherent written description of your invention.
Section 6 — After You Have Your Description
This is a public example document. Your actual AI Patent Guide™ assistance document will contain steps for you to follow as you review your draft provisional patent application.