nature-paper-to-patent Skill: Turn a Research Paper Into a Chinese Patent Draft

• Reads manifest.yaml, detects source format, task mode and invention type

  Claude states what it detected in one line, then loads only the matching fragments. Task modes are full draft, claim set, disclosure analysis, technical disclosure, disclosure iteration and paper-patent audit.

  Try: “Convert this paper into a Chinese invention patent draft and claim set.”

  Read · Router

• Gives paper text, equations, figures and code stable IDs: P, E, F and C

  Every material feature in a formal claim must map to one or more source IDs. Support is marked explicit, inherent, needs-confirmation or unsupported, and unsupported features stay out of formal claims.

  Source grounding

• Nine stages from intake to final review

  Workflow.md runs intake, source map, technical inventories, evidence ledger, invention concept, claims, specification and figures, abstract and package, and final review, saving intermediate artifacts.

  Write · Stage-gated drafting

• validate_patent_draft.py then build_patent_package.py on a structured draft.json

  Python scripts check the structured draft and build the Chinese application package as DOCX, with native editable Office Math for formulas.

  Runs code · Validate and build the package

• Mines patent points from project documents and code, then writes the 技术交底书

  Scans design documents and source code, searches prior art, and writes timestamped Markdown plus Word with Mermaid diagrams. Disclosure iteration merges new material and keeps versions and a revision log.

  Runs code · Technical disclosure

• cnipa_epub_search.py queries epub.cnipa.gov.cn through Playwright

  Claude picks search terms from your invention and runs the script once per term. If it fails, tooling.md says to fall back to web search such as Google Scholar or Google Patents.

  Runs code · CNIPA prior-art search

• docx_to_md, pptx_to_md, md_to_docx, mermaid_render, math_render

  Converts Word and PowerPoint files to text, renders Mermaid diagrams and formulas to images, and builds Word output.

  Runs code · Office and diagram tools

• Compares a supplied paper with an existing patent

  Finds claim features that have no evidence in the paper, using the corpus-pair-audit reference.

  Read · Paper-patent audit

Watch out for

• Search terms leave your machine

  The prior-art step turns your invention into search terms and sends them to epub.cnipa.gov.cn, or to web search as a fallback. Do not use unpublished key details as terms. github.com

• It needs extra packages and a browser

  The README has you run pip install -r requirements.txt, and optionally pip install for Playwright plus python -m playwright install chromium. Install them in a virtual environment. github.com

• Diagram rendering can fetch a package with npx

  mermaid_render.py uses a local mmdc if it finds one, and otherwise runs npx -y @mermaid-js/mermaid-cli. Install the Mermaid CLI yourself to avoid that. github.com

• It scans your project and writes many files

  Disclosure mode scans design documents and code, then writes timestamped Markdown, DOCX and image files. Work in a copy of the project folder. github.com