June Update
📦🚀 Here’s what we shipped in June! 🎉🛠️
✅ USPTO + Espacenet Ingestion
We now automatically enrich customer portfolios with authoritative records from the USPTO and Espacenet. This ensures:
- Cross-verification of filing data between law firms and government records.
- Comprehensive, real-time portfolio coverage with minimal blind spots.
🚦 Auto-Tracking Stage Changes for Disclosures
Customers can now define custom, multi-stage workflows for managing disclosures before filing with automatic status tracking.
A typical workflow might look like:
- Inventor submits IDF
- In-house counsel approves IDF
- Outside counsel schedules meeting with inventor
- Outside counsel sends first draft to in-house counsel
- Outside counsel sends final draft to in-house counsel
- In-house counsel approves for filing
- Outside counsel requests approval from inventors
- Outside counsel files case
ArcPrime auto-tracks status changes from idea submission to filing — no manual tagging needed. This keeps teams aligned and processes auditable without admin overhead.
🧠 Patent Committee Module
Now live: the Patent Committee workflow.
- Anyone in the organization can submit invention ideas.
- Submitted disclosures can route to a designated Patent Committee for review.
- Each committee member’s individual decision is recorded and visible to in-house counsel.
- Committee members only see disclosures assigned to them, keeping reviews focused and confidential.
🌿 Sibling Family Grouping
At ArcPrime, we group patents by siblings to reflect the core invention or concept - not just filing lineage.
Patent siblings are cases filed in different countries that reflect the same core idea. Unlike a “simple” family (which groups cases by identical priority), sibling groupings focus on conceptual similarity, so continuations (CONs) that diverge in scope are treated as separate sibling families.
This enables counsel to:
- Tailor decisions to each core concept
- Spot when related filings require different legal or strategic treatment
- Better assess global coverage, pruning needs, or licensing opportunities
🔍 Patent Search + Similarity Mapping
We’ve implemented both fuzzy and semantic search across patent cases and invention disclosures.
- Easily discover similar patents or IDFs when evaluating new ideas.
- Find related cases when during pre-filing, prosecution, continuation decisions, or pruning workflows.