en.Wedoany.com Reported - Domestic ICT industry platform ijiwei has launched an AI-powered collaborative response tool called "Patent Application OA Response Agent," designed to assist patent agents, corporate IP managers, and patent service institutions in handling responses to office actions.

The quality of responses to patent examination opinions directly affects the outcome of patent review. In practice, OA responses have long relied on the personal experience of agents, requiring repeated comparisons between technical solutions and legal provisions, feature extraction, and logical construction, resulting in high workload and long cycles. Meanwhile, the China National Intellectual Property Administration has explicitly promoted AI-assisted examination, with AI technology increasingly integrated into the entire patent examination process.

The core positioning of this tool is "assistance" rather than replacing human decision-making. The agent handles routine tasks such as analyzing examination opinions, extracting points of contention, generating response strategies, and drafting initial responses. Its functions are built around the inventive step response process, specifically including five core features.

First, the logic extraction function. After uploading the examination opinion notice (PDF format), the original patent application text (Word format), and comparison documents, the agent automatically performs AI analysis, breaking down the examiner's arguments into logical chains. For inventive step issues, it focuses on extracting the closest prior art identified by the examiner and its technical solution, distinguishing technical features and their basis, the re-determined actual technical problem solved by the invention, and the logical basis for identifying technical hints. Second, the contention point classification function. The agent categorizes defects based on the types identified by the examiner, automatically recognizing and marking inventive step contention points, guiding users into a specialized workflow for inventive step responses. Third, the intelligent diagnosis function. The agent checks the examination opinion step by step against the "three-step method" for inventive step assessment, including verifying the suitability of the closest prior art, identifying and supplementing distinguishing features, and re-determining and verifying the technical problem. Fourth, the strategy generation and ranking function. Based on the diagnosis results, the agent automatically generates multiple response strategies, including amending claims, arguing non-obviousness, supplementing experimental data or counter-evidence, and questioning the suitability of the closest prior art, while evaluating and ranking strategies by merit. Fifth, the response drafting function. After selecting a strategy, the agent enters a targeted drafting phase, generating a draft response following the logical chain of "actual technical problem solved by the present application—identification of distinguishing technical features—non-obviousness of the technical solution of the present application."

The professionalism of this tool stems from its underlying patent examination rule database and response logic framework. ijiwei has built a knowledge base covering core rules such as patent law, patent examination guidelines, and the three-step method for inventive step assessment, and has embedded response strategy frameworks and risk models summarized by senior patent agents and corporate IP managers. The agent can complete the full-chain service from "extracting rejection logic—classifying contention points—checking the three-step method step by step—generating strategies—drafting responses."

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