Form Automations with Edge
ADS, IDS, and more, all coming to the Edge platform. We are cooking up even more automations going forward
This week, Edge is shipping the ability to automate the creation of work-intensive forms, with more coming down the pike.
Recently, we launched our first prior art tool to generate citations. This week, we will help you get more value out of your prior art citations, as well as your bibliographic data.
Form Generation
Edge supports the ability to generate ADS, IDS, and provisional patent cover sheets forms. It uses the information already contained in your project. It will also use Bibliographic Data as appropriate (more on that in the next section).
To create these forms, you will go to the patent page of your project and look at the top left, just above the table of contents. You will then see a button that says “export documents” along with the option for a dropdown.
Currently, Edge can create the following documents:
A standard patent document in the official USPTO format
The USPTO ADS
The USPTO IDS
The USPTO provisional cover sheet
Please note that Edge will fill the forms out to the best of its ability. For example, if you would like to request not to publish the application under 35 U.S.C. § 122(b), you will still need to check that box yourself on the form. Note that, for now, you will also have to collect signatures yourself and submit it to USPTO through the official Patent Center website.
For now, although Edge supports multiple languages from German to Korean, the form automation is USPTO-only. Stay tuned, both for more USPTO forms as well as for forms from other jurisdictions.
Bibliographic Data
Edge now also tracks your bibliographic data. When an inventor fills out a questionnaire, that information is now automatically captured and moved over to the Bibliographic tab. You can also add relevant information like assignees. Edge will use this information when filling out the ADS and IDS forms, as well as other forms as Edge builds out its automations.
Looking forward, you can also expect Edge to create more automations based on jurisdiction, prosecution stage, and more, both on the form automation and project management side. We’d love your feedback as we build these features out.
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