Invention Disclosure

Invention Disclosure in Eureka by Patsnap helps you organize and assess technical information about an invention using your technical description, supporting documents, and drawings.

You can work with the agent to structure your invention, extract technical features and keywords, analyze drawings, search for relevant prior art, compare your invention with cited references, assess novelty and inventiveness, and generate an assessment report.

What Can Invention Disclosure Do?

• Structure and analyze technical information about an invention.
• Extract essential and additional technical features.
• Extract keywords for subsequent patent searching.
• Analyze uploaded technical drawings and generate structured descriptions.
• Search for relevant published patents.
• Compare your invention with relevant cited references.
• Assess novelty and inventiveness based on the available prior art.
• Generate a structured assessment report.
• Reuse the analysis when moving from Invention Disclosure to Patent Drafting.

Who Is It For?

• Inventors preparing technical information for patent review.
• R&D teams documenting new technical solutions.
• In-house IP and patent teams evaluating inventions.
• Patent attorneys and practitioners reviewing technical disclosures before drafting.

What Value Does Invention Disclosure Bring?

Invention Disclosure helps turn technical ideas and supporting materials into a structured disclosure and preliminary patent assessment. It gives inventors and IP teams a clearer view of the invention before moving into formal patent drafting.

It can help you:

• Turn scattered technical information into a structured disclosure.
• Identify important technical features of an invention.
• Review relevant published prior art within the same workflow.
• Understand how the invention differs from identified references.
• Conduct preliminary novelty and inventiveness assessments.
• Prepare structured technical information for patent attorneys or IP teams.
• Reuse the disclosure analysis when proceeding to Patent Drafting.

How to Use Invention Disclosure

Step 1: Start Invention Disclosure

Open Invention Disclosure from Eureka and create a new project.

Select the target patent office and working mode. Depending on the available project settings, you can also select preferred templates, instructions, or styles.

Step 2: Provide Your Technical Information

Provide the technical information the agent should use to analyze the invention. You can:

• Describe your technical solution directly in the chat.
• Upload technical documents or other supporting materials.
• Upload product drawings or schematic diagrams.

Include enough technical detail for the agent to understand the invention and the improvements it is intended to provide.

Step 3: Analyze the Invention

Submit the technical information to begin the analysis.

In Auto Mode, the agent proceeds through the analysis workflow automatically. In Copilot Mode, you can guide the analysis and request specific stages when needed.

Results appear in the document panel as the analysis progresses.

Step 4: Review and Refine the Analysis

Review the generated analysis and check that the agent has interpreted the invention correctly.

You can provide additional information, correct inaccurate results, or ask the agent to revisit part of the analysis through the chat.

For example:

• “There is another technical effect that was not included: energy consumption is reduced by 20%.”
• “Please re-analyze the invention, focusing on the differences from cited reference 1.”
• “The component on the left side of the drawing is not a gear; it is a cam.”

Step 5: Review and Export the Report

After the analysis is complete, review the full assessment report in the document panel. You can edit the report or ask the agent to adjust specific sections.

When you are ready, use Export to download the report for further review or record keeping.

If you decide to proceed with a patent application, you can continue to Patent Drafting. The analysis from the Invention Disclosure project can be reused without re-uploading the same materials.

Invention Disclosure Features

• Invention Disclosure analyzes the technical information you provide and structures it around three core elements:

  • Technical problem: The deficiency or limitation being addressed.
  • Technical solution: How the invention addresses the problem.
  • Technical effect: The improvement produced by the solution.

  If the invention addresses multiple technical problems, the agent can identify them separately and associate each problem with its corresponding solution and effect.

  If information is missing or inaccurate, provide additional details through the chat and ask the agent to update the extraction.

• The agent extracts the individual components, steps, relationships, and other technical features that make up the technical solution.

  Extracted features can be classified as:

  • Essential technical features: Features considered necessary for achieving the purpose of the invention.
  • Additional technical features: Further limitations or preferred implementations of the technical solution.

  The agent also extracts and ranks keywords that can be used in subsequent patent searching.

  Review essential technical features carefully. If you disagree with a feature classification, provide the correction in the chat and ask the agent to update it.

• Invention Disclosure can analyze uploaded technical drawings and generate structured descriptions of their contents.

  Drawing analysis can include:

  • Component identification.
  • Identification of component positions.
  • Description of connections and structural relationships.
  • Recognition of existing annotation text.
  • Recognition of reference numerals.

  If a component or relationship is interpreted incorrectly, describe the correction in the chat and ask the agent to update the analysis.

  Clear, higher-resolution line drawings or engineering drawings can improve recognition quality. For complex inventions, consider providing multiple views.

• After extracting technical features and keywords, Invention Disclosure can search published patent information for relevant references and compare them with the invention.

  For each cited reference, technical features can be identified as:

  • Identical: The technical feature is disclosed in the cited reference.
  • Similar: The technical feature is close to, but differs from, the description in the cited reference.
  • Different: The technical feature is not disclosed in the cited reference.

  Features identified as different help show how the invention differs from a particular reference and can support the subsequent novelty and inventiveness assessments.

  You can also provide a specific patent number in the chat and ask the agent to compare that patent with your invention.

  Patent search results are based on published patent information and do not include patent applications that have not yet been published.

• The novelty assessment considers whether a single prior-art reference discloses all of the technical features of the invention.

  The agent uses the technical comparison results to identify relevant cited references and explain which distinguishing features remain. Separate references are not combined for the novelty assessment.

  The assessment depends on the published patent information retrieved during the search. Relevant documents may not always be retrieved.

• The inventiveness assessment evaluates whether the distinguishing features of the invention would have been obvious based on the available prior art.

  The workflow can include:

  1. Determining the closest prior art.
  2. Identifying the distinguishing technical features.
  3. Reformulating the technical problem based on those distinguishing features.
  4. Assessing whether the prior art would have led to the technical solution.

  The agent considers the selected target patent office when structuring the assessment.

  Inventiveness involves judgment and may be assessed differently during patent examination. The assessment provides preliminary analysis rather than a final patent-office determination.

• After completing the novelty and inventiveness assessments, Invention Disclosure consolidates the analysis into a structured assessment report.

  The report can include:

  • Invention Summary: An overview of the invention.
  • Search Results Summary: Relevant cited references retrieved during the search.
  • Technical Comparison Analysis: Feature-by-feature comparisons with relevant cited references.
  • Novelty Conclusion: The novelty assessment and supporting evidence.
  • Inventiveness Conclusion: The inventiveness assessment and supporting analysis.
  • Risk Alerts: Potential areas requiring additional review.
  • Improvement Suggestions: Suggested directions for addressing identified risks.

  You can edit the generated report directly or use the chat to request changes to a particular section before exporting it.

• Invention Disclosure supports analysis workflows for CNIPA, USPTO, and EPO. The agent adjusts its analysis perspective according to the selected target patent office.

• You can provide corrections and additional information throughout the workflow without starting the analysis again from scratch.

  You can ask Invention Disclosure to:

  • Add or correct technical information.
  • Change the classification of a technical feature.
  • Correct a drawing interpretation.
  • Compare the invention with a specific patent.
  • Revisit part of the novelty or inventiveness analysis.
  • Expand or revise part of the assessment report.

  Be specific about the information or analysis you want changed so the agent can make a targeted revision.

Limitations and Considerations

• Patent searches cover published patent information and do not include applications that have not yet been published.
• Search coverage is not exhaustive, and relevant prior-art documents may not always be retrieved.
• Drawing recognition depends on the quality and clarity of the uploaded images.
• Extracted technical features and drawing descriptions may require correction.
• Novelty and inventiveness assessments are preliminary and do not represent the final determination of a patent office.
• Incomplete or inaccurate technical information can affect the quality of the analysis and assessment report.

Recommended Workflow

1. Provide your technical description and supporting materials.
2. Add technical drawings where relevant.
3. Review the extracted invention information, technical features, and keywords.
4. Check drawing descriptions where drawings have been provided.
5. Review relevant prior-art results and technical comparisons.
6. Review the novelty and inventiveness assessments.
7. Provide corrections or additional information where needed.
8. Review and edit the assessment report.
9. Export the report or continue to Patent Drafting.

Key Takeaways

• Invention Disclosure helps structure and assess technical information before formal patent drafting.
• You can provide a technical description, supporting documents, and technical drawings.
• The agent can extract technical information, features, and keywords from your materials.
• Invention Disclosure can search published patent information and compare relevant references with your invention.
• The workflow includes preliminary novelty and inventiveness assessments.
• The final assessment report can be reviewed, edited, exported, and reused when proceeding to Patent Drafting.