recipe-invention-disclosurelisted

# Recipe: Invention Disclosure (IDF) Capture an invention completely enough that an attorney can draft from it. ## Step 1: Structured Capture Interview for these sections (push past marketing language to mechanisms): 1. **Problem** — what fails today, and why existing approaches fall short 2. **Prior approaches** — what the inventors know exists, including their own earlier work 3. **The inventive concept** — the mechanism of the solution, not the benefit 4. **Key elements** — minimum set needed for the invention to work 5. **Variations** — alternative embodiments, ranges, materials, algorithms 6. **Evidence** — prototypes, test data, figures 7. **People and dates** — inventors and contribution; conception date; **any public disclosure, sale, offer, or publication with dates** (bar dates differ by jurisdiction — flag anything older than 12 months) ## Step 2: Novelty Pre-Check ```bash flowleap patent build-query "<inventive concept in plain language>" --allow-external-processing flowleap --json patent search --query "<generated CQL>" --limit 20 flowleap --json uspto search --query "<generated CQL>" --limit 20 # ODP Lucene syntax # Literature — inventors' own field publishes here first flowleap --json academic search "<concept keywords>" --limit 15 flowleap --json npl "<concept keywords>" --limit 10 ``` For anything close, pull claims and record how the invention differs: ```bash flowleap --json ops claims <close-patent> ``` This is a sanity check, not a le