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Patent prosecution
The back-and-forth with the patent office from filing to grant: office actions, responses, interviews, appeals.
SallyIP keeps prosecution timelines and history; see patent AI.
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- Patent AI — Software assisting patent professionals with prior-art search, novelty assessment, drafting, office-action response and portfolio analysis.
- Prior art — All public information available before a filing date — patents, publications, public use, sales — that can defeat novelty.
- Novelty search — A single-reference test: does one prior-art document disclose every element of the claimed invention?
What is patent prosecution?
The back-and-forth with the patent office from filing to grant: office actions, responses, interviews, appeals. SallyIP keeps prosecution timelines and history; see patent AI.
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