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The generative drafting is what a buyer pays for, on top of a drafting workspace that would still work without it. From a summary, a claim set and annotated drawings, the software writes the background, a preliminary set of claims and a detailed description tied figure by figure to the part lists. The vendor frames it as a copilot for first drafts: 'we write the story' from the data gathered. Underneath sit invention disclosure capture, flowchart and drawing management, graphical claim drafting, collaboration with inventors and Private PAIR integration, which are workflow tools in their own right.

Accuracy is claimed repeatedly and measured nowhere. The site promises unparalleled accuracy and quality, says the drafts adhere to patent office guidelines, and offers two figures in a demo pitch, five or more hours saved per application and Section 112 issues caught 30 percent more often, neither attributed, dated or explained. The one real check described is internal: diagnostics that flag Section 112 problems, enablement, written description and indefiniteness, and gaps in claim support between the specification and the claims.

Against that, the terms state plainly that PowerPatent makes no representation that the service will be accurate or reliable and is not responsible for errors in processing.

The product is built as a first draft for a qualified person to finish, and the agreement says who that person must be. The eligibility clause in the terms requires a user to represent that they can practice before a national patent office in their jurisdiction, which is a written limit on who may operate the drafting at all. The workflow puts the human at the end of every step: preliminary claims are generated for user review, the description is generated for editing, and the diagnostics report issues for a person to resolve before filing.

What is not published is any internal limit: no confidence threshold, no statement of what a generated draft may not be used for, and nothing on what happens when the model invents support that is not in the drawings.

The homepage carries a Trusted By strip and recognition images, and states that many law firms, corporations and inventors rely on the product, without naming one of them in text; the testimonials that appear are unattributed. The named items are recognition rather than deployments: finalist for World IP Review's LSPN Awards USA 2025 in Technology Solution of the Year, and completion of SOC 2 Type 2 certification announced in a press release on the site. The two performance figures quoted in the demo pitch carry no customer, date or method.

For a product that handles unfiled applications, the published commitments are specific, and they sit in the agreement rather than on a marketing page. The terms state that once results are provided the patent documents are immediately discarded, with no storing, caching or logging of their content. Processing runs on Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services exclusively on computers in the United States. Portions of a document are sent to OpenAI only with the user's authorization, no data is shared with OpenAI for model training or improvement, and PowerPatent will not disclose document content or results to any third party other than those processors.

The privacy policy of 11 July 2026 adds that some services involve privileged and confidential patent material and describes safeguards for it. Separation between customers is not addressed, and neither is privilege or work product in what the account retains. The same policy tells users they remain responsible for judging whether a workflow suits the sensitivity of what they submit.

The agreement states who may use the product. Under the eligibility clause a user represents that they are at least 18 and can practice before a national patent office in their jurisdiction. A separate clause states that nothing communicated through the service creates an attorney client relationship, is a solicitation, or conveys legal advice or a substitute for it. The marketing points the other way. The contact form asks whether the visitor is a patent attorney or an inventor or founder, and the pitch to founders is protection under first to file rules in days.

Nothing published addresses how the two fit together, what an unrepresented inventor should understand about filing an application drafted by a machine, or how a supervising attorney should check one.

Nothing published addresses how the drafting models are built, tested or controlled. There is no responsible AI page or policy, nobody is named as accountable for model behavior, nothing describes what is evaluated before a release ships, no results are published, and nothing addresses whether draft quality varies by technology area or by the language a specification is written in, which the vendor advertises as a strength. The published AI material is about data handling rather than governance.

Most of the ground is published across two documents. The terms give the retention answer outright, immediate discard of patent documents with no caching or logging. They name the processors: Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services, with all patent document processing on computers in the United States, and OpenAI for generation. The privacy policy of 11 July 2026 describes access controls, encryption, logging, monitoring, network protections and vendor management, sets out retention by service and setting, and covers international transfers.

There is no incident notification commitment to customers and no named subprocessor list beyond the three providers in the terms. Nothing reconciles the promise of immediate discard with the policy's statement that user content is retained as long as reasonably necessary.

The published position allocates the entire risk of a bad draft to the user. The terms include an assumption of risk clause stating that the user bears all risk and that PowerPatent holds no liability for outcomes. It is not responsible for errors or inaccuracies in the processing of patent documents, and the user is solely responsible for the content of their patent documents. Warranties are disclaimed in full, liability is capped at the fees paid in the preceding twelve months, the user indemnifies PowerPatent, and disputes go to individual arbitration with a class waiver. No indemnity runs to the customer, no warranty attaches to the generated text, and no insurance position appears.

Private PAIR integration appears in the published list of what the platform does. The privacy policy refers in passing to Word add ins, plugins and APIs among the services it covers, without a page, listing or document describing any of them, and no PowerPatent Word add in is listed in the Microsoft marketplace. Nothing states what syncs with a docketing or IP management system, what a firm must configure, or how drafts move into the systems a prosecution practice runs on.

Where processing happens is stated, and the customer has a say in it. The terms provide that patent documents are processed on Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services and that the choice between them rests with the user. All processing of patent documents on those platforms is done exclusively on computers in the United States, and each provider's own data processing terms are named and linked. The privacy policy adds that some services may process data locally on the device while others run in cloud environments controlled by PowerPatent or by third parties, and that international transfers may occur for other information. No tenancy model is described, and no region outside the United States is offered.

The certification is real and stated, and a press release on the vendor's own site dates it: PowerPatent, Inc. has completed SOC 2 Type 2 certification, with the AICPA SOC mark shown on the homepage. No auditor is identified, no scope statement or report period appears, there is no trust portal, and no route to obtain the report is published, so a firm would have to ask the sales team for it.

The provider is named in the agreement. The terms state that PowerPatent offers generation using OpenAI's GPT technology, and that using the feature authorizes transmission of portions of the document to OpenAI through its API, subject to OpenAI's data usage policies. They state that no data is shared with OpenAI for training or improvement. Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services are named as the processing platforms with their own terms linked, and the OpenAI and AWS marks appear on the homepage.

No model or version is published, and there is no commitment to notify customers when the model behind the drafting changes.

A buyer can see the entry price without talking to anyone. The pricing page publishes the unit and the rate: an initial purchase of 200 PowerPatent tokens for 199 dollars, additional tokens at one dollar each, a minimum balance of ten tokens to use the AI chat, and expiry six months from purchase. It also says most standard applications use fewer than 200 tokens and that complex workflows with searches or repeated checking need more.

Enterprise licensing is by contact only. The terms describe subscriptions per user that renew automatically and are nonrefundable, a structure the pricing page does not price.

The technical coverage is described in detail, and the professional boundary is not. Pages exist for 23 technology areas, from semiconductors, software and communications to biopharmaceuticals, therapeutic antibodies, medical devices and agricultural biotech. The drafting is said to handle chemical formulas and specifications in several languages. The buyers addressed are patent attorneys, agents and prosecution teams on one side and inventors and founders on the other, with a separate Office Action product for prosecution responses.

Nothing states which jurisdictions the drafting is suited to beyond the United States, which technology areas the models handle less well, or where the tool stops being appropriate.