Open standards for AI in intellectual property.
The Open IP Council (OIPC) is a pre-formation standards body that accredits independently-owned, reproducible benchmarks for AI tools used in patent prosecution, drafting, prior art search, claim construction, and valuation. It does not own any benchmark — it certifies methodology and publishes joint reports.
Core principles
- Open methodology, open results. Versioned methodology, harness source, and result artifacts; Apache-2.0 default.
- Independent benchmark ownership. No benchmark is owned by the Council.
- Dual-track scoring. Track A (ground truth) plus Track B (expert panel).
- Integrity floors over deductions. Bright-line legal violations trigger a hard floor on composite score, not a deduction.
- Vendor-neutral governance. No single vendor, law firm, or platform holds majority influence.
The Therasense Standard
Any accredited benchmark that evaluates AI tools producing content for filing with a patent or trademark office must include a fabrication-detection layer with a hard floor on composite score. Doctrinal basis: Therasense v. Becton Dickinson, 649 F.3d 1276 (Fed. Cir. 2011) (en banc).
Founding Members under discussion
- Roger Hahn — PatentBench, patent prosecution benchmark, live in production.
- CBlindspot — DraftBench (pre-filing drafting) and ValueBench (announced, valuation).
- Third Founding Member — TBA, preferably from law firm, corporate in-house, academia, or an existing standards body.
Read the Charter
Open IP Council Charter v0.1 (discussion document). Public comment open. Companion document: OIPC Open Questions v0.1.
Sections
- Charter — full draft, ten sections.
- Accreditation — how a benchmark becomes accredited.
- Members — founding members and stakeholder tiers.
- Benchmarks — PatentBench, DraftBench, ValueBench.
- Governance — Governance Board, Methodology Council, Working Groups.
- Therasense Standard — integrity floor for fabricated citations.
- Open Questions — six unresolved items in public comment.
- Press — embargo lifts at formal announcement.
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