How the AI Patent Guide™ Service Works

My website intake form screens requests to check whether the AI Patent Guide™ DIY Provisional Assistance service is a good fit for your situation, based on the technology, the legal jurisdiction, and your goal. This service is designed to help an inventor write a U.S. provisional patent application on their own invention in a technology area I’m experienced in.

The website gathers contact info, and gathers info I use to check for any conflict of interest.

I make sure there are no conflicts of interest, based on the info you provided. I also check my workload to make sure I can deliver your prompting guide document within 5 business days of when work on it begins.

I send you an email with an upload link for you to securely upload your confidential description of your invention. That could include .txt, .pdf, .docx, .md, or other text documents, sketches, prototype photos, CAD drawings, or other images, or any other informal descriptions of your invention. If you’ve already had an AI chatbot generate a draft patent application (which is not recommended unless you had a solid understanding of the risks and took action to mitigate them beforehand), you can also upload that draft.

Important: You’ll need to let me know when all of the invention description files have been uploaded, by replying to this email. If I don’t receive your reply within 10 business days, I will follow up once before closing the matter.

The email also informs you that an engagement agreement will be coming to you in a separate email from the DocuSign site.

The email also includes a payment link, for you to pay for the AI Patent Guide™ DIY Provisional Assistance service. The payment goes into the Ogilvie Law Firm Trust Account.

After the engagement letter is signed, the payment is made, and I have your reply confirming that all of the invention description files have been uploaded, I will begin work on your project. That’s when the 5 business day delivery clock starts.

I use proprietary AI technology to generate a rough draft of your AI Patent Guide™ assistance document, based on your invention description. The rough draft is my internal privileged work product, not the deliverable.

I revise the rough draft, using my 30+ years of experience as a patent attorney, my knowledge of how AI works — what it is good at and what it is not good at — and my knowledge of the relevant technology area(s).

When I am satisfied with the revised AI Patent Guide™ assistance document, I email it to you. That final document is your deliverable. At that point, the fee is earned and the payment will be transferred from the Trust Account to the Operating Account. If you cancel before I send you the assistance document, the full amount will be refunded, minus payment processor transaction fees. If a conflict or technology gap arises during the work, I will withdraw and send you a refund, minus payment processor transaction fees.

If you have questions about how to use the assistance document, you can send up to 30 questions to me via the website contact form. They must be sent within 5 business days of the document’s delivery. They must be questions about how to use the prompts given in the document, not questions about patentability, prior art, or claim drafting, or questions seeking filing advice or other legal advice. The AI Patent Guide™ DIY Provisional Assistance service is a limited scope service.