PatRe: A Full-Stage Office Action and Rebuttal Generation Benchmark for Patent Examination

ArXi:2605.03571v1 Announce Type: cross Patent examination is a complex, multi-stage process requiring both technical expertise and legal reasoning, increasingly challenged by rising application volumes. Prior benchmarks predominantly view patent examination as discriminative classification or static extraction, failing to capture its inherently interactive and iterative nature, similar to the peer review and rebuttal process in academic publishing. In this paper, we