Agent skill

Ptab Ipr Monitor

by hh-health-AI in hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity

This skill should be used when the user asks about "PTAB", "IPR", "inter partes review", "patent challenge", "is the patent being challenged", "invalidation risk", or wants to track administrative…

MITAuto-check passedLegal & Compliance

Install Ptab Ipr Monitor

skills CLI
$ npx skills add hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity --skill ptab-ipr-monitor -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity ptab-ipr-monitor --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/modules/ip-exclusivity/skills/ptab-ipr-monitor .claude/skills/ptab-ipr-monitor && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
ptab-ipr-monitor
GitHub stars
101
Token cost
~758 tokens
SKILL.md length
362 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
72
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

This skill should be used when the user asks about "PTAB", "IPR", "inter partes review", "patent challenge", "is the patent being challenged", "invalidation risk", or wants to track administrative…

  • Works in 6 steps: Start from the patent stack, not from… → Identify the petitioner. A generic filer… → Track the procedural milestones, which… → …
  • Asks about PTAB
  • SKILL.md covers Workflow, Caveats and Not-automatic
  • Needs USPTO_API_KEY

What it does

Ptab Ipr Monitor is an agent skill from hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity. This skill should be used when the user asks about "PTAB", "IPR", "inter partes review", "patent challenge", "is the patent being challenged", "invalidation risk", or wants to track administrative patent challenges against a franchise's key patents.

Its SKILL.md is about 760 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Legal & Compliance, covering Intellectual property. The repository describes itself as: Synthesis engine for buy-side healthcare equity research. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asks about PTAB
  • Inter partes review
  • Patent challenge
  • Is the patent being challenged

Example prompts

  • “inter partes review”
  • “patent challenge”
  • “is the patent being challenged”
  • “/ptab-ipr-monitor”

Requirements

  • A credential in USPTO_API_KEY

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Start from the patent stack, not from the company. Take the patent numbers
  2. Identify the petitioner. A generic filer signals an entry attempt. A
  3. Track the procedural milestones, which are the datable catalysts
  4. Score the claims at risk. Losing a method-of-use claim is usually survivable.
  5. Update the LOE distribution. Move probability mass from nominal toward
  6. Emit the brief.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6c7bda8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • USPTO_API_KEY

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Ptab Ipr Monitor loads about 758 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 67 tokens; SKILL.md has 362 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~67
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~758

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity at commit 6c7bda8, republished under its MIT licence (© hh-health-AI). 362 words, ~758 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ptab-ipr-monitor/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ptab-ipr-monitor
description
This skill should be used when the user asks about "PTAB", "IPR", "inter partes review", "patent challenge", "is the patent being challenged", "invalidation risk", or wants to track administrative patent challenges against a franchise's key patents.
metadata.version
0.1.0
metadata.layer
Competitive

PTAB / IPR monitor

Track administrative challenges to the patents that hold up a franchise, and convert procedural milestones into probability shifts on the LOE date.

Workflow

  1. Start from the patent stack, not from the company. Take the patent numbers orange-book-loe identified as binding and search PTAB for proceedings against each (scripts/ptab_search.py --patent 9,000,000). Searching by company name misses challenges filed against a licensor or a predecessor entity.
  2. Identify the petitioner. A generic filer signals an entry attempt. A competitor-manufacturer or a patent-adverse fund signals something else. Petitioner identity changes what a win means commercially.
  3. Track the procedural milestones, which are the datable catalysts:
    • Petition filed.
    • Institution decision — roughly six months after filing. This is the first real information event: institution means the Board found a reasonable likelihood that at least one claim is unpatentable.
    • Final written decision — statutorily within 12 months of institution.
    • Appeal to the Federal Circuit — adds 12–18 months.
    • Note that discretionary denial practice has shifted repeatedly; a petition can be denied on discretionary grounds without any view on the merits, which is not a win for the patentee on substance.
  4. Score the claims at risk. Losing a method-of-use claim is usually survivable. Losing composition-of-matter is the franchise. Say which claims the petition targets.
  5. Update the LOE distribution. Move probability mass from nominal toward earliest plausible on institution; move it decisively on a final written decision holding claims unpatentable. Re-emit the orange-book-loe brief rather than reporting the PTAB outcome in isolation.
  6. Emit the brief.
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Caveats

USPTO's Open Data Portal API requires a free key (USPTO_API_KEY). Proceedings are available from September 2012 onward. Entity mapping is the practical difficulty: patent assignee names, Orange Book applicant names and ticker names frequently differ. Verify the assignment chain before concluding a patent belongs to the covered name.

District-court Hatch-Waxman litigation runs in parallel and is not in PTAB; for that, use the free CourtListener/RECAP docket data and the sponsor's own legal-proceedings disclosure.

Not-automatic

An instituted IPR does not license an invalidity assumption — institution rates and final-outcome rates are very different numbers, and a settlement can end the proceeding at any point on terms that reveal nothing.

Contract: ../../references/evidence-brief.md.

© hh-health-AI, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in modules/ip-exclusivity/skills/ptab-ipr-monitor of hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6c7bda8

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Questions about Ptab Ipr Monitor

What does Ptab Ipr Monitor do?

This skill should be used when the user asks about "PTAB", "IPR", "inter partes review", "patent challenge", "is the patent being challenged", "invalidation risk", or wants to track administrative…. Ptab Ipr Monitor is an agent skill from hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity. This skill should be used when the user asks about "PTAB", "IPR", "inter partes review", "patent challenge", "is the patent being challenged", "invalidation risk", or wants to track administrative patent challenges against a franchise's key patents.

When should I use Ptab Ipr Monitor?

Ptab Ipr Monitor fits situations like: asks about PTAB; inter partes review; patent challenge; is the patent being challenged.

How do I install Ptab Ipr Monitor in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity --skill ptab-ipr-monitor -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (modules/ip-exclusivity/skills/ptab-ipr-monitor in hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity) into .claude/skills/ptab-ipr-monitor in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Ptab Ipr Monitor in Codex?

Run `npx skills add hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity --skill ptab-ipr-monitor -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (modules/ip-exclusivity/skills/ptab-ipr-monitor in hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity) into .agents/skills/ptab-ipr-monitor in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Ptab Ipr Monitor in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity --skill ptab-ipr-monitor -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ptab-ipr-monitor, .gemini/skills/ptab-ipr-monitor, .github/skills/ptab-ipr-monitor and .opencode/skills/ptab-ipr-monitor in your project.

What does Ptab Ipr Monitor need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Ptab Ipr Monitor needs credentials named USPTO_API_KEY. Our summary lists: A credential in USPTO_API_KEY.

Does Ptab Ipr Monitor access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Ptab Ipr Monitor safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Ptab Ipr Monitor use?

Ptab Ipr Monitor is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Ptab Ipr Monitor use?

About 758 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Ptab Ipr Monitor?

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Who maintains Ptab Ipr Monitor?

hh-health-AI (a GitHub user) maintains it in hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity, which has 101 GitHub stars. The repository holds 72 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: hh-health-AI/healthcare-equity on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.