Hindsight Bias in Patent Examination: How Language Models Can Help

"Language models have the potential to reduce the likelihood of appeals and legal challenges, streamline prosecution, and lead to more consistent and cost-effective patent examination."The patent examination process is subject to the well-known issue of hindsight bias.Issues with hindsight bias come up when a patent examiner, without realizing it, uses their knowledge of the invention itself to reject a claim as being obvious.

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