One set of claim amendments, formatted for both the USPTO and the EPO
A firm prosecuting the same family before the USPTO and the EPO is really running two amendment processes in parallel, even though the substance of the amendment is often identical. The US attorney marks up claims to the USPTO's own conventions and needs the full history of changes preserved through each response. The EP attorney does the same for the EPO, with the added burden of confirming the amendment doesn't introduce anything beyond what the application as filed supports.
Handled by hand, the same amendment gets rebuilt twice, once for each office's formatting rules, before either attorney gets to the substance of what changed.
What Shape does with it
Patently Shape tracks every change to a claim, from the first amendment through to the Word export, and flips between the marked-up, base, and clean versions at any point. The US attorney can review the full history of what's changed since the original claim. The EP attorney can do the same, working from the same underlying record, without either one losing track of the other's edits.
Track changes toggles on when every edit needs to stay visible for the file, and off when a change is a small correction that doesn't need flagging, so each attorney controls what shows up in their own review. When it's time to respond, the tracked changes carry straight through to the Word export, already formatted to match.
Same amendment, same underlying history, formatted for whichever office is reading it next.
A firm prosecuting the same family before the USPTO and the EPO is really running two amendment processes in parallel, even though the substance of the amendment is often identical. The US attorney marks up claims to the USPTO's own conventions and needs the full history of changes preserved through each response. The EP attorney does the same for the EPO, with the added burden of confirming the amendment doesn't introduce anything beyond what the application as filed supports.
Handled by hand, the same amendment gets rebuilt twice, once for each office's formatting rules, before either attorney gets to the substance of what changed.
What Shape does with it
Patently Shape tracks every change to a claim, from the first amendment through to the Word export, and flips between the marked-up, base, and clean versions at any point. The US attorney can review the full history of what's changed since the original claim. The EP attorney can do the same, working from the same underlying record, without either one losing track of the other's edits.
Track changes toggles on when every edit needs to stay visible for the file, and off when a change is a small correction that doesn't need flagging, so each attorney controls what shows up in their own review. When it's time to respond, the tracked changes carry straight through to the Word export, already formatted to match.
Same amendment, same underlying history, formatted for whichever office is reading it next.