Dear all,

I tried to find a solution myself but after thorough search I’m not sure whether there is even a solution for this.

I’m an aspiring patent attorney and as such I often have to perform repetitive tasks. One is to amend claims and then tell the examiner in a different document which claims were amended. To illustrate this, I provide this example:

Claims:

Report to examiner:

I wonder whether there is a way to analyze the changes that have been made and to automatically generate a text similar to my example report above.

I suppose it could be possible using visual basic but I was unable to find whether VBA is able to even recognize amended text, even more so if it can compare the amended text to the original one. Moreover, there are certain things that have to be taken into consideration:

Only the first number of a paragraph should be analyzed and it should work without using the “numbering” format. Furthermore, it should recognize whether a whole paragraph has been deleted. Bonus if it could extract the changes that have been made specifically and generate a text containing said changes.

I hope I made my goal clear. If you have any questions please let me know!

Best

​Dear all,I tried to find a solution myself but after thorough search I’m not sure whether there is even a solution for this. I’m an aspiring patent attorney and as such I often have to perform repetitive tasks. One is to amend claims and then tell the examiner in a different document which claims were amended. To illustrate this, I provide this example: Claims:Report to examiner: I wonder whether there is a way to analyze the changes that have been made and to automatically generate a text similar to my example report above. I suppose it could be possible using visual basic but I was unable to find whether VBA is able to even recognize amended text, even more so if it can compare the amended text to the original one. Moreover, there are certain things that have to be taken into consideration:Only the first number of a paragraph should be analyzed and it should work without using the “numbering” format. Furthermore, it should recognize whether a whole paragraph has been deleted. Bonus if it could extract the changes that have been made specifically and generate a text containing said changes. I hope I made my goal clear. If you have any questions please let me know! Best   Read More

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