I will join your patent project team for application and prosecution

For a patent application, checking whether the specification together with the drawings is likely to satisfy the basic prerequisites for the granting of a patent. For example, in the case of US utility patent applications filed at the USPTO, checking whether the invention described is novel, useful, nonobvious compared to the prior art, "enabled" and fully disclosed.

For patent prosecution, a patent office rejection typically says that the claimed invention is obvious in view of the prior art. Sometimes it is possible to find incorrectness in the office's reasoning. Usually, however, it is necessary to edit and redraft the claims to define a more specific invention that is nonobvious in view of the prior art.