recipe-prior-art-searchlisted

# Recipe: Prior Art Search A multi-step workflow for comprehensive prior-art searching. Each database uses its own query syntax — see `flowleap-uspto` for the USPTO Lucene grammar. ## Steps ### Step 1: Generate Search Queries ```bash # --focus broad widens recall for a first novelty pass flowleap patent build-query "<describe the invention in natural language>" --focus broad --allow-external-processing flowleap uspto build-query "<describe the invention in natural language>" --focus broad --allow-external-processing ``` These live builders transmit the invention description to FlowLeap and its configured Anthropic or OpenAI provider. Obtain informed user consent before using `--allow-external-processing`. For a local preview, use `--dry-run --dry-run-redacted`; if external processing is not permitted, write the CQL/ODP query manually and skip the builder commands. Done when you have one EPO CQL query and one USPTO ODP query for the invention. ### Step 2: Search Patents (EPO + USPTO) Run **both** databases — they are not interchangeable: - `patent search` hits EPO OPS: worldwide DOCDB coverage, including EPO's own bibliographic copy of US documents. `--countries US` narrows this EPO collection to US members; it does **not** reach USPTO's Open Data Portal. - `uspto search` hits USPTO ODP directly, returning US application and prosecution metadata (the `patentFileWrapperDataBag`) that the EPO copy lacks. For US prior art the USPTO leg must go through USPTO ODP; d