June 2025 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.