USPTO Office Action Response App

The USPTO Office Action Response App supports patent prosecutors by converting USPTO Office Actions into a two-part, prosecution-ready work product: a factual digest of the examiner’s positions and a structured response plan. It addresses the recurring problem of manually re-reading lengthy Office Actions to track every rejection, objection, restriction, and claim disposition, and then rebuilding the same analytical scaffolding for each response.

The user selects a new or previously analyzed Office Action. For new documents, the app runs a high-accuracy pass over the entire Office Action, extracting and normalizing bibliographic data (such as application number, filing date, examiner name, art unit, and docket number) into a reusable data table. It identifies every rejection, objection, and restriction/election, ties each to the relevant claim(s), and captures limitation-level mappings that connect claim language to the examiner’s prior-art citations and explanations.

Once the structured data is built, the app uses Playbook-driven reasoning to classify each issue into the appropriate issue type and generate starter responses that reflect defined argument structures, tone, citations, and procedural posture. It proposes conceptual amendment directions where appropriate and produces limitation-by-limitation drafting scaffolds aligned to the overall strategy. The result is delivered as two complementary outputs: a Factual Examiner Findings Report that purely reflects extracted examiner statements and claim mappings, and a Response Strategy Plan that provides argument templates, amendment concepts, and procedural next steps.

Key benefits include:

• Reduce time spent manually parsing and outlining Office Actions.
• Improve consistency and reuse across responses through Playbook-driven issue handling.
• Support more efficient delegation to junior team members with clear scaffolds and data tables.
• Enhance defensibility by separating factual examiner summaries from strategic advocacy content.

The USPTO Office Action Response App enables patent prosecution teams to move from raw Office Actions to organized, strategy-aligned response drafts more quickly, consistently, and with clearer visibility into both the examiner’s findings and planned response.

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