Greg Fodor

You can audit draft U.S. utility patent applications against a 316-item statutory checklist, simulate USPTO examiner prosecution with Office-Action-style rejections and amendment iteration, and adversarially test claim scope against credible competitor design-arounds to harden the application before filing.

They target patent attorneys, patent agents, in-house IP counsel, and inventors preparing U.S. utility patent applications. They support pre-filing review, mock prosecution, and competitive-evasion analysis, but explicitly do not replace patent counsel, infringement opinions, or freedom-to-operate analysis.

It spawns fresh subagents role-playing USPTO examiners who review current law and prior art, issue rejections under 35 U.S.C. 101, 102, 103, and 112, then reconsider applicant arguments and amendments. Amendments apply only after allowability, repeating until two independent examiners clear the final version.

The audit applies a 316-item checklist grounded in 35 U.S.C., 37 CFR, the MPEP, and current USPTO practice. It runs a deterministic pre-pass, gates on patentability, inventorship, and deadlines, then fans out parallel reviewers over the specification, claims, drawings, and filing packet.

They are drafting and review aids, not legal opinions. They do not provide infringement opinions, freedom-to-operate determinations, patentability guarantees, or substitutes for licensed patent counsel, and the workaround skill only strengthens claims after new-matter, enablement, and prosecution-risk gates pass.