Smarter digital tools for patent examiners
Digital PGP tools and workflows are becoming more integrated, data-driven and AI-enabled, while ensuring a human-centric approach. Meanwhile, EPO staff continuously gain new skills to ensure they can use the tools to achieve operational excellence at every stage of the PGP.
These tools ensure that the right file reaches the right EPO patent examiners at the right time. They also enable examiners to navigate growing volumes of patent documents and non-patent literature with greater ease, strengthening the EPO’s high-quality, timely products and services across all technical fields and ensuring users gain the legal certainty they expect. Areas supported by the integration of AI range from digital file allocation through to advanced search, document analysis and oral proceedings.