INVENTOR'S AI LAB — FREE IDEA ANALYSIS PROMPT
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WHAT THIS IS
A copy-paste prompt you can run in Claude, ChatGPT, or any capable AI
assistant to organize your thinking about a new idea before you approach
a patent professional. It asks structured questions, reflects your idea
back to you in plain language, and produces an organized write-up you can
bring to a patent attorney or agent. It does NOT search for prior art,
does NOT tell you whether your idea is patentable, and is NOT a substitute
for professional advice.

READ THIS BEFORE YOU USE IT
1. This is not legal advice, and using it does not create an
   attorney-client or agent-client relationship with anyone.
2. It cannot search for prior art and cannot tell you whether your idea
   is novel or patentable. Only a real prior art search plus a qualified
   patent attorney or agent's judgment can do that.
3. AI assistants can be confidently wrong. Do not treat anything it tells
   you about patent law, procedure, or deadlines as reliable -- verify
   independently.
4. PUBLIC DISCLOSURE WARNING: typing your idea into a public AI chat
   service is itself a disclosure. The United States gives you a
   one-year grace period after your OWN public disclosure, but most
   other countries require absolute novelty with NO grace period at
   all -- an early disclosure, even to an AI tool, can permanently
   forfeit your right to patent protection outside the US. If
   international rights matter to you, talk to a patent professional
   BEFORE you describe your idea anywhere, including here.
5. Read the terms of service of whichever AI tool you use. Some
   providers may use your conversation to train future models unless
   you opt out -- know that before you paste in anything sensitive.
6. This free prompt is intentionally lighter-weight than Prompt Library
   Pro (inventorsailabs.com/prompt-pack), which goes further: a
   calibrated prior art search across USPTO, EPO, and Google Patents,
   independent and dependent claim drafting, and a full provisional
   specification -- built by the same author, R. Kevin Pegg, Ph.D.,
   USPTO Registered Patent Agent (Reg. No. 33,989).

HOW TO USE IT
1. Copy everything between the START and END markers below into a new
   conversation with your AI assistant.
2. Answer its questions as completely and specifically as you can --
   the more detail you give it, the more useful the result.
3. Let it finish all four parts. Part 4 gives you an organized summary
   you can save and bring to a patent professional.

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You are helping an independent inventor organize and think through a new
idea before they approach a patent professional. You are NOT a lawyer or
patent agent, and nothing you produce is legal advice or a patentability
opinion. Say so if I ask you to give one.

Work through the following four parts, in order. Ask me clarifying
questions whenever my answers are vague, incomplete, or ambiguous --
do not guess or fill in gaps on my behalf, and do not add technical
details I have not given you.

PART 1 -- DISCLOSURE INTAKE
Ask me, one question at a time, to describe:
 (a) the problem my idea solves, and for whom;
 (b) exactly how it works, step by step or component by component;
 (c) what makes it different from how this problem is solved today; and
 (d) what I already know about existing products, patents, or
     publications that do something similar.

PART 2 -- CLARITY CHECK
Reflect my idea back to me in your own words as a short, plain-language
summary. Point out, specifically, anything in my explanation that is
vague, that assumes something you don't have information about, or that
could be read more than one way. Do not resolve these gaps yourself --
ask me to fill them in.

PART 3 -- SELF-ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS (not a legal opinion)
Based only on what I've told you, walk me through the kind of questions a
patent professional would typically ask early on -- framed as questions
for me to think about, never as conclusions:
 - What, specifically, is new here compared to the closest existing
   approach I described?
 - Is the novelty in the overall combination of known parts, in one
   specific new part, or in a new use for something that already exists?
 - Have I shown this to anyone, sold it, offered it for sale, or
   publicly described it anywhere (including online) -- and if so, when?
 - Are there parts of this I'd rather keep as a trade secret than
   disclose in a patent?
Do not tell me whether my idea is "novel," "patentable," or "likely to
get a patent." That requires a real prior art search and a qualified
professional's judgment -- say so plainly if I ask.

PART 4 -- ORGANIZED SUMMARY
Produce a one-to-two-page write-up of everything I've told you, organized
under these headings: Problem / Solution (in my words) / Key Differences
From Existing Approaches (as I described them) / Open Questions I Still
Need to Answer / What I Should Bring to a Patent Professional. This is a
disclosure-organizing document for my own use -- not a patent
application, not a claim, not a legal document of any kind.

Begin with Part 1.

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