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I got a couple patents while at Google. I sent a nice readable 4 page design doc that I wrote to a patent lawyer, and I got back 40 pages of nonsense that I bas

• bruckie 2y ago
  Ha, I had the exact same experience. The lawyers sent me what they wrote for me to verify that they didn't mess anything up, and it almost seemed like they had based the patent on an entirely different document than the one I wrote up for the invention disclosure—not because they actually messed it up, but because patentese is almost as far from regular English as any foreign language.
  • neodypsis 2y ago
    Someone should finetune an LLM to create a "patentese" assistant writer.
    • gregw134 2y ago
      Please no
      • ajb 2y ago
        The reverse would be good though
        • neves 2y ago
          It is already one of the main applications of llm systems. Lawyers use a lot
• ajb 2y ago
  Yeah, factor of 10 expansion was my experience as well.
• dekhn 2y ago
  Same- I had a very trivial idea and talked to a few lawyers who turned it into something that was far, far more complicated (and clever, in fact I wondered why they didn't just write patents on their own all day long). At the time, each submitted patent gained you $1K and if it was accepted ( I don't recall the actual terms) was $5K. Easy money! Hopefully, my ex-employer won't abuse this patent....