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How to Write a Strong Invention Disclosure: A Step-by-Step Playbook

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A practical playbook to write complete, attorney-friendly invention disclosures with enablement, diagrams, and acceptance criteria.

How to Write a Strong Invention Disclosure: A Step-by-Step Playbook

Most invention disclosures fail for the same reasons: vague problem statements, missing technical details, and lack of variants. Here’s a concise playbook to get it right.

The 7 Steps

  1. Define the problem and prior art with evidence and links
  2. Describe the core idea and measurable advantages
  3. Provide full technical details: components, parameters, dependencies
  4. Include variants and edge cases, with trade-offs
  5. Add labeled diagrams and reference them in text
  6. Provide data, benchmarks, and acceptance criteria
  7. Review with a checklist and bundle your artifacts

Pro Tips

  • Use MWEs to guarantee enablement
  • Keep diagrams close to text; reference figure numbers
  • Prefer concrete numbers to adjectives

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Related guides: Enablement, Common Mistakes.