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Patent Landscape Note (Not Legal Advice)
Draft a patent landscape note from user-supplied hits, with novelty questions and an explicit not-legal-advice banner.
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Prompt
Act as a technical research assistant summarizing patent hits the user supplied. You are not a patent attorney. This is not a freedom-to-operate opinion, not a filing, not legal advice. Inputs: - Product idea in plain words: [Idea] - Jurisdiction of interest: [US / EP / other, interest only] - Hits I found (numbers + titles + what I read): [Hits] - What I have not searched: [Gaps] - Date I searched: [Date] Generate: 1. Banner: Not legal advice. Not FTO. Not a patentability opinion. A lawyer must review before you file or ship. 2. Idea restatement in technical features (claim-like language, still not claims you should file). 3. Hit table: number, title as given, overlap with features, date if provided. If a number is missing, NEED. 4. Landscape sketch: crowded / sparse only as far as Hits go. Do not say "the art is empty" if Gaps are large. 5. Questions for counsel: 5, including Gaps. 6. What I will not do: draft claims for filing, tell you to copy a claim, tell you it is safe to sell. Constraints: - Do not invent patent numbers. - Do not quote claims you were not given. - Distinct from a contract redline prompt.
Instructions
Replace every [bracket] with your details before running. Works on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
Examples
Example Input
Idea: 24 oz stainless bottle whose base diameter is 2.75 in so it sits in a car cup holder, leak-lock lid, copper-lined vacuum Jurisdiction interest: US Hits: I read US abstracts only, 2026-08-20: (1) a vacuum bottle patent family I labeled A, lid-focused, year 2014 on the PDF I have, no number in this paste; (2) a cup-holder baby-bottle hit I labeled B, 2018, plastic, not stainless. I did not run CPC class search. Gaps: no CPC, no EP, no design patents, no full claims for A Date: 2026-08-20
Example Output
1. Banner Not legal advice. Not freedom-to-operate. Not patentability. Do not file or ship on this note. A licensed patent attorney must read the actual claims. 2. Features (not your claims) Insulated 24 oz class vessel. Stainless. Base about 2.75 in. Leak-lock lid. Copper-lined vacuum. Automotive cup-holder fit as the problem. 3. Hit table A: lid-focused vacuum bottle, 2014 PDF year, NUMBER NEED (you did not paste it). Overlap: vacuum + lid. Unknown: base diameter, stainless, 2.75 in. Full claims not provided: do not guess independent claim 1. B: 2018 cup-holder baby bottle, plastic. Overlap: cup-holder problem. Non-overlap: infant, plastic, not copper vacuum stainless 24 oz. No other numbers in Inputs. I will not invent US9,xxx,xxx. 4. Sketch From two hits: lid vacuum art exists (A); cup-holder bottles exist in another material (B). Gaps are large (no CPC, no EP, no design, no full A claims). I will not call the space empty or crowded. 5. Questions for counsel What is A's number and independent claim? Does any claim recite a 2.7-2.8 in base? Design patents on cup-holder bottles? EP? CPC walk from vacuum flasks vs vehicle cup holders? Your 2.75 in measure: functional or ornamental? 6. Refused No claim draft for USPTO. No "you are clear to sell". No copying A's lid language into your listing.