ClaimMaster 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

Name: ClaimMaster
Rating: 4.7 (46 reviews)

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Overview

ClaimMaster

4.7

(46)

Pricing

Starting at $359.88 per year

About ClaimMaster

ClaimMaster is a Microsoft Word tool for patent professionals that helps with automated proofreading of patent application drafts and responses to USPTO Office Actions. ClaimMaster's patent proofreading tools help users draft consistent documents by identifying drafting errors and inconsistencies in claim numbers, claim amendments, antecedent basis, claim term support, inconsistent part numbering in specification and figures, use of limiting terms and patent profanities, and inconsistent acronym usage, and other types of issues. ClaimMaster also has many time-saving tools for automated drafting of patent application sections and figures, manipulating claim amendments, generating and filling-out Office action shells, IDS and other USPTO forms. Moreover, ClaimMaster includes numerous tools for downloading and mapping data from the USPTO and EPO: it can generate patent family trees and batch download PDFs and file histories of patents and patent applications.

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ClaimMaster Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $359.88 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$359.88

per user, per year

No plan information available

ClaimMaster Features

Popular features found in Intellectual Property Management
Deadline Management
Docket Management
Document Management
IP Portfolio Management
Patent Tracking
Trademark Tracking
More features of ClaimMaster
Customizable Fields
Customizable Reports
Disclosure Management
Renewal Management

ClaimMaster User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

70%

28%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.6

Value for money

4.8

Customer support

4.8

Functionality

4.6

Theodore F.

Verified reviewer

Law Practice

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed May 2021

ClaimMaster Review

Overall, my experience is positive. Claim Master is an important part of my quality assurance process. I will continue to use Claim Master.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

ClaimMaster does a good job at finding antecedent basis issues in the claims and the specification. I rely on ClaimMaster almost every day to make sure that my claims do not have 112(b) problems that can arise from missing antecedent basis issues. ClaimMaster is an important part of my patent preparation and prosecution practice. I do not believe a work product is complete unless I've checked it with ClaimMaster.

Cons:

ClaimMaster is sometimes wrong. Fortunately, it tends to have a lot more false positives than false negatives. (False positive = flags an antecedent basis issue, but it's not; false negative = fails to flag an antecedent basis issue that does exist.) False negatives are quite rare, but they can pop up when the claim terms get complex. False negatives often happen when an adjective is used in front of a claim term (particularly in the specification), or when the claim term gets particularly complex (e.g., more than 2-3 words long). However, I would rather that Claim Master overflag possible issues and let me double check and resolve them. If I had to choose, I would much rather deal with false positives than false negatives. It can sometimes take a while to work, particularly if I have a long application and I ask it to do a full check of the specification and figures. During this time I can't switch windows within Word to work on something else, and that is a bit frustrating.

Reasons for choosing ClaimMaster

N/A

Sam C.

Verified reviewer

Law Practice

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed June 2021

An indispensable tool

As noted, this is an indispensable tool in preparing applications and responses for us. There is little more I can add to that (or need to, honestly).

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Installation of this product is effortless. The product works quite well and is easy to use. Constantly being improved. Customer service is second-to-none - I wish all our IT projects were as well-supported and effective. I use this product constantly, and find that I can prepare applications and claims in a MUCH more efficient and affective manner when my process includes ClaimMaster. Further, not having to allow remote access to any of our documents is an absolute necessity. Its standalone nature is critical, as we have clients that forbid the use of any software that employs remote access and/or sending files over the Internet.

Cons:

The only complaint I can think of is that certain phrasings confuse the software. It may be possible to use natural language processing/machine learning to address this shortcoming, but again, it would need to be implemented as a standalone system, for our purposes.

david m.

Verified reviewer

Legal Services

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed May 2021

Great Help For Patent Attorneys

Good, it has been helpful in ensuring I produce high quality patent applications

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

That it has autocomplete features with terms used in claims or on part names. I also like the antecedant basis checking features.

Cons:

That it is a subscription payment model and not a one-time payment model. Also, the tool seems to take too long to gather the information on terms, claims, etc. and seems to constantly re-parse the document and/or claims before I can use features. I understand that re-parsing is necessary to some extent, but the tool seems to be excessive with this.

Reasons for choosing ClaimMaster

I think Turbo patent is too expensive for my needs.

Reasons for switching to ClaimMaster

I left a job working with them so I needed to find an alternative tool

DAVID V.

Verified reviewer

Law Practice

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed June 2021

Essential Tool for Patent Prosecutor

Overall Claimmaster has provided itself to be an important tool for patent prosecution, especially claim review and IDS prepartion. There are many other helpful features.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Pros:

The product makes claim review and updating in amendments and the original application a much easier task. The product does a great job of catching antecedent basis and claim numbering type of mistakes to supplement the practitioner review. The IDS tool to fill out IDSs with the patent publications has been a big time saver for staff. There are numerous other helpful features, such as checking the specification for reference number consistency.

Cons:

Would be helpful to be able to add non-patent literatore to the IDS as part of the auto-fill feature. Would be great if there would be a way to manage cross referencing references in IDSs between related cases and autofill IDSs when references are added to one case.

Steve Z.

Verified reviewer

Law Practice

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed June 2021

An essential tool for practicing patent attorneys

I have used ClaimMaster since it was first introduced. My experience has consistently been good, to the point where I would literally not want to write a patent without it.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Pros:

ClaimMaster has many functions, but the part I like most is claim analysis. Claims are arguably the most important part of a patent. However, to be valid, the claims must follow many legal and logical rules - so much so that they are almost like short chunks of high-level computer code. As a result, it is all too easy to accidentally introduce errors. ClaimMaster quickly and easily scans claims and detects and highlights many of the most common patent claim construction errors. I find it to be an essential tool for my practice.

Cons:

I have generally found the software to be easy to use, and have no complaints.

Ze'ev A.

Verified reviewer

Legal Services

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Reviewed June 2021

ClaimMaster used as a QA tool for patent application drafts

ClaimMaster offers a wide variety of tools, but I personally use only a very small number of tests: Two tools for claim proofreading (checking for errors and checking for antecedent problems) and one tool specification proofreading (checking part numbers). Tried the other tools - they may have potential, but currently require too much work on my side to filter the results - as most issues identified by the other tools are non-issues (maybe these tools will be more efficient as technology advances, but not at the moment).

Ratings Breakdown

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Pros:

Good tool for capturing typos and errors in claims, check for antecedent problems, and going over part numbers throughout the spec and the drawings.

Cons:

Still requires manually reviewing all reported issues as most are "false negatives", especially when checking for antecedent problems (many terms may be a bit confusing, and automated tools don't always capture these correctly). Has some difficulties with proper interpretation of part numbers that appear in drawings with superscripts or subscripts.

Reasons for switching to ClaimMaster

ClaimMaster was easier to handle. While both products show a relatively large number of "false issues" and require the user to manually filter which is which - the number of wrong errors identified by ClaimMaster was significantly lower, requiring me to spend less time to go over it and filter the reported issues.

David M.

Verified reviewer

Legal Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed May 2021

Helpful Tool

On the whole, ClaimMaster has been a great time-saver for us, and it's helped us eliminate errors in our work.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

ClaimMaster has been very useful for our firm as a tool for drafting and reviewing patent applications, automating IDS generation, and generating patent family trees. It can speed up patent drafting considerably, especially if I put together a parts list in advance, and use the "//#" notation to automatically insert part numbers. ClaimMaster almost always finds antecedent basis and/or reference number problems in draft applications; it helps us fix these before client review and filing.

Cons:

I do wish the parsing features worked a little more rapidly, or more in the background - I can't use Word while they operate. I also get several false positives from antecedent basis and drawing reference number checks. These are easy to ignore, but would be great to resolve or customize.

Laura C.

Verified reviewer

Legal Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed May 2021

Love the IDS Generator

Time is of the essence and accuracy in my field. ClaimMaster assists me with being more efficient and accurate. Thank you ClaimMaster!

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Functionality

Pros:

I mostly use the IDS Generator to assist in preparing all of my IDS. It saves me a lot of time, and functions relatively well with only the occasional glitch. I was able to integrate the software into my current business processes effortlessly!

Cons:

Occasionally the published dates get off and then throw off all subsequent reference dates. Not a big deal compared to the amount of overall time ClaimMaster saves me.

Charles R.

Verified reviewer

Legal Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed May 2021

Amazing

Saving time doing repetitive tasks.

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Value for money

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Pros:

Antecedent checking for claims. This is terrific. After you have checked your claims, the software can then enumerate every place in the specification where support can be found. Likewise, it can check part numbers and verify them versus the drawings. This is especially good for finding slight, unintended shifts in terminology. Finally, the software does a great job of manipulating claimsets during prosecution.

Cons:

I recognize that the software is trying to help with some very hard conceptual processes and the ability to prepare responses ready for the lawyer looks like it could be helpful. But since it is so complicated, I think they need a white paper explaining not only how to use it, but the concept they had in mind when they designed it. This would augment the instructions.

Paul S.

Verified reviewer

Law Practice

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed May 2021

Time saver and accuracy improver

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Pros:

Claimmaster is great at detecting errors that are time consuming and difficult to detect manually. Using it to confirm dependencies, consistent reference number usage, antecedent basis, claim numbering, and the like is a great time saver.

Cons:

There can be a large number of false errors. But sorting through these usually turns up other minor issues that are best corrected before filing anyway.

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