Here are 10 prompts that’ll replace your patent attorney!!

Jk, but these prompts really do help. They draft claims from disclosures, review application drafts, search for prior art, build claim charts, file continuations, and make portfolio decisions across thousands of patents.

They’ve been refined by daily patent work. They started much simpler. But after running them thousands of times, we saw the same mistakes show up over and over, so we patched them, tightened the instructions, and made small adjustments until they’re reliable enough for everyday use.

The versions I’m sharing are single-prompt versions meant to be easy to use. In production at ArcPrime, these run as multi-stage pipelines with anti-hallucination checks, specification cross-referencing, and output validation. The multi-stage versions are where the last mile of accuracy comes from.

One small thing we found surprisingly helpful across all the prompts was adding a self-validation checklist at the end of the prompts. It’s a short section that restates what you’re looking for again (basically, repeating your instructions to the LLM twice). In practice, this seems to reduce the chance that some instructions are forgotten. My guess is with large tasks, repetition helps an LLM just like it helps a human.

We’re publishing these because we learned some of these tricks by seeing what others were doing and borrowed the good parts. I’m sure these can be improved, and I hope they are.

You can install them as a SKILL for Claude/ChatGPT or use as is here on Github.

We’re running a private group of 40+ in-house IP counsel sharing prompts and AI workflows. If that’s you, DM me or comment, we’d love for you to join!