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Patentomania manuals
One short page for each feature of the iPhone app: what it does, how to use it, and where it stops.
The app is in beta, so a screen can change between builds. Patentomania is a drafting aid. Nothing it writes is legal advice.
Getting started
Capture your invention
- Record an invention by voiceDescribe your invention out loud, up to 5 minutes per recording, and get a patent draft.
- Type your invention instead of speakingWrite your invention down when you cannot talk, and get the same kind of draft.
- Languages for the app, dictation and drafts47 languages for the app screens and 47 for dictation, set separately, plus how drafts and translations fit in.
- Use Patentomania with SiriStart a draft, check its status or hear it read out loud with a spoken phrase.
Work with your draft
- Read the audit pipeline on your draftThe checklist of automatic checks on each draft, what pass, fail and caveats mean, and what the checks cannot tell you.
- Fix a failed audit with a suggested revisionWhen an audit fails, get a proposed rewrite, compare it with your text and apply or reject it.
- Edit a draftChange the title, sections and claims of a ready draft, with a note about what you changed.
- Revisions and historySee every saved version of a draft, who or what changed it, and go back to an earlier one.
- Translate a draftRead a draft and its audit verdicts in your own language without changing the draft itself.
- Read a draft aloudListen to your draft read out by the iPhone's built-in voice, with pause and stop.
Publish and filing
- Choose a patent or depatent defaultTell the app whether you usually plan to patent an idea or publish it as prior art, and what that setting does today.
- Publish a draft as prior artHow publishing on depatent.com works, the two confirmation steps and why you should treat it as permanent.
- Follow the filing status of a draftWhere to see the timeline of a draft from creation to a filing result, and what the app does not do.
Settings and your data
- Light, dark or system appearanceSwitch the app between light and dark, or let it follow your iPhone.
- Push notificationsChoose which events send a message to your iPhone, and what to do when notifications are switched off.
- Your data and the AI servicesWhat the data-sharing screen tells you, who receives your recordings and text, and how to withdraw your agreement.
- Sign out and delete your accountHow to sign out of one device or all, and how deleting your account works, including the 30-day window.
- The offline bannerWhat the orange banner on the Inventions list means and what still works when your iPhone has no connection.