5 things worth knowing about Mannersets™, now live in Patently Create
Patently Create's new Mannersets feature packages a firm's whole drafting style into a reusable set, structure, phrasing, claim support. Named after E.W.E. Micklethwait's 1946 Cussed Draughtsman's Test, it's live now, powered by Onardo.
It's not a style toggle. It's a defined set of preferences
Most "match our tone" settings in AI tools are a single dial: formal or casual, verbose or terse. A mannerset is a package: structure, phrasing, emphasis, how claims are supported, how the background is treated, how embodiments are described. It's the whole set of choices that makes a specification read like it came from a particular firm/applicant, not one setting standing in for all of them.
The house style(s) used to live in individual attorneys’ heads
Every experienced attorney has a way certain claims get phrased, a way the relationship between claims and description gets handled, conventions the attorney has used for years without ever writing them down. Mannersets exist to capture that once and reuse it, rather than leaving it as something a new hire only picks up by sitting next to someone for a few years.
It's built on a test from 1946
Micklethwait, the mannerset available now, is named after E.W.E. Micklethwait and his paper "Brushing up our drafting." Micklethwait is remembered for the Cussed Draughtsman's Test: sketch exactly what a claim says, almost spitefully, and if the drawing carries limitations you never intended, the claim needs revising or scrapping. The mannerset encodes that same instinct: precision over verbosity, support over ornament.
It's built to be shared, not just applied
A mannerset isn't a personal preference set for one drafter. It's built to be captured, reused, and shared across a team, so a new associate can draft in the firm's established style from day one rather than spending a year absorbing it by osmosis.
A mannerset can be tied to a specific client, not just a style
Beyond a named heritage style like Micklethwait, a mannerset can be set up for a particular client, incorporating their guidelines and requirements for claim drafting, boilerplate paragraphs, figures and such like. The mannerset is then shared across the team / different firms drafting for them. Specify the client on a Create project, and the right mannerset is added automatically, so the whole team drafts in that client's expected style without anyone having to remember to set it by hand.
Mannersets are live now in Patently Create, powered by Onardo. See Patently Create.
It's not a style toggle. It's a defined set of preferences
Most "match our tone" settings in AI tools are a single dial: formal or casual, verbose or terse. A mannerset is a package: structure, phrasing, emphasis, how claims are supported, how the background is treated, how embodiments are described. It's the whole set of choices that makes a specification read like it came from a particular firm/applicant, not one setting standing in for all of them.
The house style(s) used to live in individual attorneys’ heads
Every experienced attorney has a way certain claims get phrased, a way the relationship between claims and description gets handled, conventions the attorney has used for years without ever writing them down. Mannersets exist to capture that once and reuse it, rather than leaving it as something a new hire only picks up by sitting next to someone for a few years.
It's built on a test from 1946
Micklethwait, the mannerset available now, is named after E.W.E. Micklethwait and his paper "Brushing up our drafting." Micklethwait is remembered for the Cussed Draughtsman's Test: sketch exactly what a claim says, almost spitefully, and if the drawing carries limitations you never intended, the claim needs revising or scrapping. The mannerset encodes that same instinct: precision over verbosity, support over ornament.
It's built to be shared, not just applied
A mannerset isn't a personal preference set for one drafter. It's built to be captured, reused, and shared across a team, so a new associate can draft in the firm's established style from day one rather than spending a year absorbing it by osmosis.
A mannerset can be tied to a specific client, not just a style
Beyond a named heritage style like Micklethwait, a mannerset can be set up for a particular client, incorporating their guidelines and requirements for claim drafting, boilerplate paragraphs, figures and such like. The mannerset is then shared across the team / different firms drafting for them. Specify the client on a Create project, and the right mannerset is added automatically, so the whole team drafts in that client's expected style without anyone having to remember to set it by hand.
Mannersets are live now in Patently Create, powered by Onardo. See Patently Create.