ArcPrime's Office Action Response feature analyzes office actions, identifies the examiner's position on each rejection, and recommends response strategies with draft amendments. Instead of reading through dense office actions and cited references manually, you get a structured breakdown that highlights what matters and suggests how to respond.
📷 The Office Action Response page showing the sidebar with Global Analysis sections and Per-Objection Analysis, with the Final Response section open in the main content area
Key Capabilities
Structured OA reading — View the office action in a structured format with inline citations that link directly to the relevant passages in cited references.
AI-generated summary — Review a concise summary of the office action including rejection types, examiner profile, and prosecution history at a glance.
Per-objection analysis — Drill into each rejection individually to see the examiner's position, limitation mapping, and recommended strategy.
Strategy recommendations — Evaluate AI-suggested response strategies for each objection, with side-by-side comparisons and alternative approaches.
Draft amendments — Review AI-suggested claim amendments with additions and deletions clearly marked, ready for your review and refinement.
Claim landscape — Visualize the relationships between claims, their dependencies, and how they connect to the cited references.
Examiner and art unit insights — Access historical data on the examiner's allowance rate, average prosecution length, and art unit patterns.
How It Works
Open a patent from your patent list, then select the office action document you want to respond to. Click Run Analysis to initiate the AI analysis. ArcPrime processes the office action, cited references, your application, and prosecution history to produce a comprehensive analysis.
The results are organized into two main areas, accessible from the sidebar on the left:
Global Analysis sections cover the full office action: Read OA, OA Summary, Understand Application, Claim Landscape, and Understand References.
Per-Objection Analysis sections break down each rejection individually with the examiner's position, limitation mapping, recommended strategy, draft amendments, and alternative strategies.
A built-in AI assistant chat panel is available throughout the analysis for follow-up questions about any section you are viewing.
📷 The sidebar showing the Response, Global Analysis, and Per-Objection Analysis navigation groups with color-coded rejection type pills
Common Use Cases
Use Case | How ArcPrime Helps |
Responding to a non-final office action | Analyzes each rejection, recommends traverse or amend strategies, and drafts amendments |
Evaluating examiner tendencies before choosing a strategy | Displays examiner allowance rates, art unit averages, and prosecution history patterns |
Reviewing cited art coverage quickly | Maps claim limitations to prior art references with match-strength indicators and inline citations to source passages |
Preparing outside counsel with a starting point | Generates a complete draft response document with remarks and claim amendments you can share |
Comparing response strategies | Provides side-by-side strategy comparison showing likelihood of defeating the rejection and impact on claim scope |
Getting Started
To run your first office action analysis, see How to Run an OA Analysis. For a walkthrough of the AI-generated summary, read Understanding the OA Summary.
Tip: The AI assistant chat panel updates its context based on which section you are viewing. Ask follow-up questions while reviewing any part of the analysis for targeted responses.
Related Articles
How to Run an OA Analysis — Upload an office action and initiate the AI analysis
Understanding the OA Summary — Read the AI summary, examiner position, and rejection breakdown
Navigating Individual Objections — Review each rejection with the examiner's position and strategy recommendations
Reviewing AI Response Strategies — Evaluate and compare the AI-suggested strategies per objection