Drafting pipeline

Claims first, prose last, numerals only once.

A specification is a system of cross-references pretending to be prose. The pipeline drafts it in dependency order — claims before description, components before figures, figures before the sections that cite them — so consistency is a property of the order, not a cleanup task at the end.

Why the order matters

dependency flow
ClaimsComponents+ numeralsPrior artAbstract,summaryFiguresDetailed descriptioncites numerals + figures

Nothing is drafted before the thing it has to agree with. The detailed description is written last because it is the section that cites everything else.

Reference numerals, assigned once

COMPONENT_PLANNER
100Environmental control system
110Sensor array
120Controller
130Actuator assembly
140Reference derivation module

One list, injected into the figures and into the description. Renumber a component here and both follow — the find-and-replace evening does not happen.

Pipeline

8 stages, resumable

Section vocabulary

17 canonical sections

Figure kinds

4, validated for filing

Per section

Only the context it declares

Stage by stage

Eight stages, each one resumable and each one correctable.

Progress is tracked per stage, so a draft can be left and picked up. The percentages below are the pipeline's own — they are weights on the work, not a guess at how long it takes.

  1. 1

    Invention structure

    IDEA_ENTRY · 10%

    The disclosure is turned into structure — what the invention is, what it operates on, what problem it solves. Everything downstream reads this, so it is the first and cheapest place to correct a misreading.

  2. 2

    Preliminary claims

    PRELIMINARY_CLAIMS · 22%

    Claims are drafted early, deliberately before the prose. The claims decide what the specification has to support, so writing the description first means rewriting it later.

  3. 3

    Prior art analysis

    RELATED_ART · 35%

    Prior art is brought in and reviewed against the preliminary claims — either handed over from a novelty search or entered directly. This is what the background section will later be built from.

  4. 4

    Claim refinement

    CLAIM_REFINEMENT · 45%

    Now that the art is known, the claims are narrowed and layered — independent scope tested against the closest references, dependents added as fallback positions.

  5. 5

    Component planner

    COMPONENT_PLANNER · 58%

    Every component of the invention is enumerated and assigned its reference numeral once, centrally. This is why numerals stay consistent between the figures and the description instead of drifting apart.

  6. 6

    Figure planner

    FIGURE_PLANNER · 70%

    The figure set is planned as a set — which figures exist, in what order, of which kind — then each is generated, validated for filing readiness, and sequenced. Diagrams and hand sketches sit in the same sequence.

  7. 7

    Jurisdiction setup

    COUNTRY_WISE_DRAFTING · 55%

    The target offices are chosen, and each one contributes its own section list, ordering, and word limits drawn from a superset of canonical sections. One invention, several jurisdiction shapes.

  8. 8

    Draft sections

    ANNEXURE_DRAFT · 82%

    Sections are drafted one at a time, each receiving only the context its own definition asks for — and each checked against the sections around it rather than in isolation.

Context injection

Each section is told only what it needs to know.

A section is not a prompt with everything thrown at it. Every canonical section declares which context it requires, and the drafting call receives exactly that — which is both why the output stays on-topic and why a section can be redrafted without disturbing its neighbours.

Requires prior art

requiresPriorArt

Background, cross-reference — the sections that characterise the art.

Requires figures

requiresFigures

Brief description of drawings, detailed description.

Requires claims

requiresClaims

Abstract and summary, so they track the claims rather than drift from them.

Requires components

requiresComponents

Detailed description, which cites the numeral list directly.

Each section also carries its own base instruction, its constraints, whether it is required, and a recommended word range — so a jurisdiction can reorder or drop sections without the drafting logic being rewritten.

Figure planner

Four kinds of figure, because a method claim and an assembly are not the same drawing.

The figure set is planned before anything is drawn — which figures, in what order, of which kind. Each kind has its own schema, so a sequence diagram is validated as a sequence rather than as a generic box-and-arrow picture. Relationships inside a figure are typed rather than left as anonymous lines — primary, data input, technical output, control, configuration, validation, storage, optional — which is what lets a drawing be checked for sense instead of merely rendered.

Component

COMPONENT

The system and its parts, with reference numerals and typed relationships between them.

Sequence

SEQUENCE

Ordered interaction between actors over time — the classic method-claim figure.

Process

PROCESS

Flow with branches and decisions, for method steps and conditional behaviour.

Constituent

CONSTITUENT

Composition and containment — what a thing is made of, nested.

Filing readiness

A figure that an examiner would object to is caught before you file it.

Every diagram is validated, not just rendered. The report is explicit about whether the figure is filing-ready, which claim-critical components are missing from it, and whether it has become too dense to be one sheet.

Claim-critical coverage

required / covered / missing
Sensor array (110)covered
Controller (120)covered
Actuator assembly (130)covered
Reference module (140)missing

A component the claims depend on, absent from every figure, is a support problem waiting to be raised.

Complexity

requiresSplit
Visible nodes
14
Connectors
19
Max row size
6
Cross-layer links
4
Nesting depth
3
Label words, max
9
Split into two sheets

The reasons are named, so the split is a decision you can see rather than a silently truncated drawing.

Render check

FILING vs REVIEW
Effective font
9.4 pt
Aspect ratio
1.41
Filing ready
No

Text is measured at the size it will actually print at. A figure legible on screen and unreadable on the sheet is a formalities objection, so it is treated as one.

Your figures, your way

Generated, overridden, or imported — all in one sequence.

A managed figure regenerates when the components change. The moment you edit its source by hand, that edit is respected instead of being overwritten on the next run — and imported images and sketches take their place in the same numbered sequence.

Managed

MANAGED

Generated and maintained by the pipeline. Regenerates cleanly when components or numerals change.

Raw override

RAW_OVERRIDE

You took the wheel and edited the diagram source directly. Your edit is preserved rather than overwritten.

Imported raw

IMPORTED_RAW

Diagram source brought in from outside and kept as source.

Imported image

IMPORTED_IMAGE

An existing image or scanned sketch, sequenced alongside generated figures.

Voice

Drafted in your style, not the model's.

Writing samples are stored per jurisdiction, per persona, and per section, because how you write claims has nothing to do with how you write a background. Five sections carry most of the voice, and their readiness is tracked separately so you know what is actually configured.

High-impact sections

persona readiness
Claimsready
Detailed descriptionready
Backgroundpartial
Summarypartial
Abstractempty

Empty is reported as empty. A persona that only has claim samples does not get to claim it has your voice everywhere.

What a sample teaches

per section

Claims

Preamble, transitional phrase, dependency style, antecedent handling.

Detailed description

Reference numerals, paragraph rhythm, how you signal alternatives.

Background

How you set up the art and the problem — the hedging before “however”.

Review

Sections are checked against each other, not one at a time.

The interesting defects in a specification live between sections: a claim feature with no home in the description, a numeral in a figure that the prose never mentions. Cross-section rules run from a source section to a target section, and the fix is pointed at the section that has to change — not the one that revealed the problem.

A cross-section rule

source → target
Claimssourcefeature missingDetailed descriptiontarget — fix applied here

The rule fires on the claims but the repair belongs to the description. Sending the fix to the wrong section is how a consistency check turns into a new inconsistency.

Issue weighting

E / W / S
Error×3Error
Warning×2Warning
Suggestion×1Suggestion

Weighted rather than counted, so ten cosmetic suggestions never outrank one real error.

One invention, several offices

The section list is the jurisdiction's, not ours.

Canonical sections sit in a superset with aliases, display order, and per-office word limits. A jurisdiction takes the sections it wants in the order it wants them — objects of the invention here, technical problem and solution there, industrial applicability where it is required — and the same drafted invention comes out shaped correctly for each.

Draft one specification you have already written.

Run the pipeline on an invention you drafted by hand. The stage that will tell you most is the component planner — whether the numerals it assigns match the ones you chose, and whether the figures and description agree about them.

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