We can usually process patent documents in about 2 seconds. In some cases, our processing may take longer or reach our maximum processing time of one minute and return an error. Here are a few instances in which this may happen with suggested solutions.

Very Long Specifications or Claim Sets

We have successfully processed patent applications with several hundreds of pages and several hundred claims. If your processing is taking too long or if you receive errors, please try using the website instead of the Word and-in and using the "Analyze Claims" button instead of the "Analyze All" button.

Very Complicated PDFs

See our article on PDF processing.

Too Many Multiple Dependent Claims

Patent Bots works with multiple dependent claims, but be careful to not have too many. If you have claims like this:

1. A method for foo.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein ...
3. The method of any of claims 1-2 wherein ...
4. The method of any of claims 1-3 wherein ...
...
20. The method of any of claims 1-20 wherein ...

then the total number of claims is about 500,000, and this exceeds our current processing capabilities! If you have more than 500 claims, then we will ignore multiple dependencies and use just the first dependency.