---
name: patent-drafting
title: Patent Drafting — Intellectual Property Protection for Research
description: Drafts patent applications for scientific inventions, including claims, specification, abstract, and prior art analysis. Use when preparing an invention disclosure for filing with patent offices such as USPTO, WIPO, or EPO.
author: beita6969
author_url: https://github.com/beita6969/ScienceClaw/tree/main/skills/patent-drafting
license: MIT
version: 0.1.0
execution_mode: open
jurisdiction: general
practice: ip
language: en
---

# Patent Drafting — Intellectual Property Protection for Research

## Overview
Draft patent applications for scientific inventions, covering claims, specification, and prior art analysis.

## Patent Application Structure

### 1. Title
- Descriptive but not limiting
- Include key technical terms

### 2. Abstract (150 words max)
- Technical problem, solution, key advantage
- Independent claim in prose form

### 3. Background / Field of Invention
- Technical field
- Prior art and its limitations
- Problem to be solved

### 4. Summary of Invention
- Brief description matching broadest claims
- Key advantages over prior art

### 5. Detailed Description
- Best mode of carrying out the invention
- Enable a person skilled in the art to reproduce
- Include examples and experimental data
- Reference all figures

### 6. Claims
- **Independent claims**: broadest protection
- **Dependent claims**: specific embodiments
- Method claims, composition claims, use claims
- Means-plus-function for apparatus

### 7. Drawings / Figures
- Flow diagrams, structural formulas, experimental results
- Reference numerals consistent with description

## Prior Art Search Strategy
1. Patent databases: Google Patents, USPTO, WIPO, EPO, CNIPA
2. Scientific literature: PubMed, Google Scholar
3. Conference proceedings and theses
4. Product catalogs and technical documents

## Key Principles
- **Enablement**: Specification must enable reproduction
- **Novelty**: At least one element not in prior art
- **Non-obviousness**: Combination/modification not obvious to skilled person
- **Written description**: Inventor possessed the invention at filing date
