How to set up a matter, draft claims, run prior art searches, and use the assistant.
What Nodes-IP is, how to sign in and create your first matter, and a tour of the workspace shell.
Creating, switching, and managing matters, the per-invention containers that hold your applications, prior art, sources, and assistant context.
How applications are versioned, saved, read on the Versions page, compared against the draft, and forked between applications.
Managing your master list of people and organisations, their identity, address, and contact details, adding, editing, deleting, and how inventor/applicant roles and attachments to applications behave.
Searching EPO and USPTO patent databases and bookmarking relevant prior art into the matter.
Saving uploaded files, external URLs, and bookmarked patents into the matter so the assistant can reference them as background material.
Drafting, editing, numbering, and dependency rules for claims.
Managing figures and reference signs. Uploading drawings, ordering and nesting figures, and marking numbered elements, braces, dimensions, angles, centre lines and section lines on them.
Writing and editing application sections such as Background, Summary, and Detailed Description.
Using the AI assistant to draft, research, and edit your patent application.
How smart reference chips work across claims, figures, sections, and the assistant.
Viewing the assembled patent application, previewing another filing, comparing against a saved version, and exporting to Word.
Signing in, your profile and subscription, and where your personal settings live.