Here is a summary of responses I received to my inquiry for a windows
based software for patent form preparation.
One person reported that his firm has just started using IP Legal Form
by LegalStar and that it has received rave reviews from his firm's
paralegals. LegalStar's website is www.legalstar.com.
A couple people suggested Matthew Bender's Windows-based product
Authority Patent Interactive Drafting System. It was released early
this summer and uses HotDocs to import the forms from Horowitz's
Patent Office Rules books into Word or other word processors.
One person reported that their firm had tried it but found it too
cumbersome for the person using it and so returned it.
One person had used Adobe Acrobat to create fill-in-the-blank forms
based on USPTO PDF form files and said that it does take some time to
get familiar with the procedure but after that, the process is fairly
painless.
Thank you's go to Jeffrey J. Berns, Charles Gibson, Mary Lou Calvin,
Randy Troxel and Candice Kennington for their so prompt and very helpful
responses.
Beth Smith
Cohen & Grigsby
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