We are excited to announce a suite of new tools are now available in the Rowan Patents integrated drafting environment, providing a more robust workflow solution to manage patent application drafting. These enhancements help drive increased efficiency, consistency and quality to better support the start of the application drafting process.

Many practitioners start a new application by leveraging material from prior work. This helps save time, controls costs, and ensures consistent use of terminology, style, figures and descriptions. The new suite of integrated drafting tools provide practitioners with more ways to easily reuse existing work product, helping them draft robust, high-quality applications quicker than ever. This release complements several releases from 2024:

• In April we launched a new Application Import Tool, adding more ways to import existing patent application content, including specification, claims and figures into Rowan Patents.
• In May, we introduced Application Templates to accelerate the starting point for application drafting.
• In June, we added the Drafting Library to your landing page, making it possible to perform powerful searches within a repository of Rowan Patent files.
• Today, Rowan extends the Drafting Library with a version that is accessible from within the draft application.

New drafts with Application Templates

The Application Templates tool allows practitioners and teams to more easily create and manage starting points for new applications by client, technical area, or filing jurisdiction. When opening the Rowan Patents integrated drafting environment, practitioners are now presented with customizable templates that provide application starting points – simply update your files with boilerplate text, terms and definitions. Easily save existing and future drafts in the templates interface for future access.

Manage, locate and leverage existing work with the Drafting Library

The new Rowan Patents Drafting Library makes it easy for practitioners to manage, search, and reuse prior patent application content as a starting point for new applications.

Rowan Patents can now act as a drafting management system that contains comprehensive management capabilities and enables the reuse of a curated portfolio of subject matter in new patent applications. Organizations can more efficiently find, share, and reuse the most relevant and preferred subject matter for patent drafting.

The Drafting Library takes advantage of the Rowan patent-specific file format, allowing for targeted searching within prior patent applications for terms, definitions, parts, figures, and claim or specification language. Key benefits include:

• More powerful searching than the typical system search used with Word files.
• Flexible search options to find both exact-match text or related content to search criteria.
• Search on specific components of the file – e.g. claims, terms/definitions, figures, etc.
• The ability to filter and view search results based on those components.

Through this new suite of tools – Application Import, Application Templates and Drafting Library – we aim for our patent drafting software to make the process of drafting patents more efficient. To learn more about these new tools and the benefits of Rowan Patents, contact us for a discussion and demo.