Prior Art Search Agent

A weak prior art search leads to wasted filing costs or patents that fail later. For a new invention, this agent builds and runs the search. It reads the invention disclosure, extracts key features, and builds search strings and classification codes. It searches patent and non-patent literature, ranks results by how many features each reference discloses, and builds a feature chart. If the top results miss key features, it refines the terms or codes and searches again. It stops when two rounds add nothing closer. References with all features are flagged. It drafts a search report. The patent agent reviews the results and gives the opinion. Edge case: a reference is in another language, so the agent uses the English family member or a machine translation and notes it.