Assistant

The assistant is the panel on the right side of the app, a chat companion that knows your project inside out and can help you draft, research, and edit it. It is specialised in IP law (patent drafting, prosecution rules, jurisdictional differences) and built specifically for the work that happens on this platform.

You talk to it in plain natural language. It understands the same smart references you use elsewhere (claim 1, FIG. 2, element names) and replies with chips you can click to navigate.

What the assistant can read

The assistant has full read access to your project. You can ask it questions about anything in it without copy-pasting context. It can pull up:

  • Claims (the full claim set, including dependencies and history)
  • Claim diagnostics (the live errors and warnings on the claims page, such as missing dependencies or no transition phrase)
  • Application sections (Background, Summary, Detailed Description, and so on)
  • Figures and reference-sign elements (the project's figures, their pins, and the named elements they reference)
  • Bookmarked patents (any prior art you've saved to the project)
  • Saved web links (pages you've added to the project context)

See the References tab for a full explanation of how chips work for patents and web links.

Ask things like "do my dependent claims align with the description?", "summarise figure 3", or "what does US 10,123,456 say about heat dissipation?" and it has the data on hand.

What the assistant can search

Beyond your project, the assistant can reach out to two external sources:

  • Patent databases (search the patent databases with the same backend the Prior Art page uses, then pull a patent's bibliographic details and abstract into the conversation)
  • The open web (search the internet and fetch the actual page, not just a snippet, when it needs to read something carefully)

You can ask it to run a prior-art search, look up a standard, find a regulator's guidance, or read a competitor's product page.

What the assistant can change

The assistant can edit your project, but it never does so silently. Every edit it proposes appears as a pending change that you review and accept (or reject), either:

  • via Accept (or Accept All) in the pending-changes bar above the chat input, or
  • inline on the affected claim, section, figure, or bookmark.

Changes the assistant can propose:

  • Add, edit, or delete claims
  • Edit application sections
  • Add or remove bookmarked patents, and save web links
  • Add, edit, or delete figure elements and pins

Attaching context with @-mentions

Type @ in the chat input to open a picker. You can attach a specific claim, figure, element, or bookmarked patent directly to the message, and the assistant treats it as a first-class input rather than something it has to go look up. This is the fastest way to ask focused questions like "@claim 5, can we narrow this?" or "compare @figure 2 to @US10123456".

@-mentions are distinct from the inline chips that appear when you type "claim 5" in prose: mentions are explicit attachments, chips are recognised references.

Chat history

Conversations are saved automatically. Use the history button at the top of the assistant panel to browse past conversations and jump back into one. From the history list you can also rename a conversation to something memorable or delete one you no longer need (right-click an entry, or use its more-actions menu). The + button beside the history button starts a fresh conversation at any time.

Each project keeps its own conversation list. There's also a separate global chat (the Chat page, available when no project is active) for general questions that aren't tied to a specific invention.

Model

Pick which Claude model powers the conversation, either from the model picker at the bottom of the assistant panel or under Settings → AI. Best Available (Auto) is the default and tracks our current recommended model. You can also choose explicitly: Opus is best for the hardest drafting work, Sonnet is the balanced everyday choice, and Haiku is fast for simple edits.

The model is project-scoped, so a complex EP application can run on Opus while a quick utility filing uses Sonnet.

Jurisdiction awareness

The assistant adapts to the active application's jurisdiction (US, EP, or PCT). It pulls in the matching drafting rules (35 USC §§101/102/103/112 for US, EPC Articles 52–84 and the problem-solution approach for EP) so the suggestions you get match the office you're filing in. Set the jurisdiction on the application and the assistant follows.