Provide your clients with the best quality legal analysis and work product in patent prosecution and litigation without overextending your resources:

Decrease patent drafting time while producing airtight patent applications.
PatentOptimizer™ serves as a critical quality-control check in the patent drafting process. You can check your patent application for use of terms across claims and description and check references for accuracy and consistency on the fly. Enter a fully formatted patent citation, including a hyperlink to the referenced patent, in your patent application automatically.

Analyze thoroughly/assess accurately the strengths and weaknesses of granted patents—in less time.
PatentOptimizer streamlines the patent analysis process. You can assess the strengths and weaknesses of a granted patent — belonging to your client or its competitors — by checking use of terms across claims and description, by checking patent references, by finding cases in which a court has interpreted the meanings of key terms, and by validating such cases ... all with just a few clicks.

Make the practice of patent law more profitable.
PatentOptimizer helps you save time and give your clients confidence that their patent prosecution and litigation work is being done in a thorough, accurate, and efficient manner.

LexisNexis PatentOptimizer is a revolutionary, automated way to construct and deconstruct patents and its features include:

• Check Claims—Detect the term and phrase differential in claims versus descriptions instantly. Check antecedent basis effortlessly. Generate claim charts on the fly
• Check Terms—Uncover, retrieve, and validate cases that have defined key terms in your document. Identify prior art usage in other patents. Find narrower, broader, or related alternate terms.
• Check References—View a comprehensive post-issuance activity report for cited patents (with Microsoft® Excel® export capabilities). Retrieve related case dockets from LexisNexis® CourtLink®. Order pertinent file wrappers from REEDFAX®. Export patent reference into IDS forms. Link to relevant entries in the USPTO PAIR system.
• Check Parts—Check the accuracy and consistency of your reference figures and related numbers/labels. Correct inconsistencies with flexible document-editing capabilities.
• Mark Terms—Load Attorney's Dictionary of Patent Claims, Ei Compendex® Thesaurus, and Lexis®
• LexisNexis Patent Research—Launch the LexisNexis Patent Research Tasks page, an interface designed specifically for the patent practitioner.
• Web Search—Search a multitude of Web search engines for particular terms in a patent.
• Dictionary and Thesaurus—Link to some of the most popular dictionaries and thesauri on the Internet.
• Patent Citation—Insert fully formatted patent citations into you document, including a hyperlink for the referenced patent.
• Update Claim References—Re-numbers claims and claim references to reflect recent updates/amendments made to the claims.
• Remove Markup—Remove hypertext markup from marked claims and linked citations.

• PatentOptimizer™ Overview (PDF, 4457K)

Do I need to download software to use the LexisNexis PatentOptimizer service?
Yes, software needs to be downloaded and then activated with an ID & password. Download the software now.

Can individuals download the software or does a firm's IS department need to do this?
It depends upon whether your firm restricts users from downloading software on their own. Check with your IS department.

Is a user's PatentOptimizer ID & password the same as their lexis.com® ID & password?
Yes. This is only activated if your firm is a subscriber to the LexisNexis PatentOptimizer service, however.

Are trials available?
Yes, free 30-day trials are available

How often is the case law in the service updated and what is is the coverage?
The case law coverage is updated quarterly and the coverage extends back to the creation of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1982.

Are there any charges beyond the subscription charge for the service?
Yes, additional charges can be incurred if you retrieve litigation dockets from the CourtLink® service or order REEDFAX® file histories.

How is the patent analysis generated?
The service employs a number of sophisticated algorithms created specifically for LexisNexis PatentOptimizer that have been extensively tested.

What word-processing programs and Web browsers does the service support?
The service currently supports Microsoft® Word and Microsoft® Internet Explorer.