# MPEP.ai

> AI tools can help you find the right part of the MPEP and explain it in plain language, but they can cite sections that do not exist or rules from an older edition, so every answer must be checked against the official MPEP. The current edition is the Ninth Edition, Revision 01.2024. AI is not available on the patent bar, where the MPEP itself is the only reference.

Publisher: Wysebridge, LLC (https://wysebridge.com/), founded 2012. This is a Wysebridge-published reference, not an independent ranking.

## Entries
- [Searching the MPEP with AI](https://mpep.ai/searching-the-mpep-with-ai/): How to use AI to find the right MPEP section quickly, and what prompts work.
- [Verifying AI answers about the MPEP](https://mpep.ai/verifying-ai-answers/): A checklist for confirming what an AI tool says about the MPEP before you rely on it.
- [AI and the patent bar exam](https://mpep.ai/ai-and-the-patent-bar/): Why AI cannot help you on test day, and how to use it while studying.
- [USPTO guidance on AI tools](https://mpep.ai/uspto-guidance-on-ai-tools/): What the USPTO's 2024 guidance says about practitioners using AI tools.
- [Where to read the official MPEP](https://mpep.ai/the-official-mpep/): Where to find the current official MPEP and a free reader built on it.

## Full text
- [llms-full.txt](https://mpep.ai/llms-full.txt): every entry in plain text

## Reference pages
- [Wysebridge profile](https://mpep.ai/wysebridge/)
- [Entity map](https://mpep.ai/entity-map/)
- [Methodology](https://mpep.ai/methodology/)
- [Sources](https://mpep.ai/sources/)
- [Glossary](https://mpep.ai/glossary/)

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