In plain words: It turns a research paper into a patent description by mapping its ideas and links, splitting the map into patent sections, and writing each section from its slice. On expert tests it beat larger paid models, though usual text metrics preferred legally invalid drafts.
Abstract · FlowPlan-G2P: A Structured Generation Framework for Transforming Scientific Papers into Patent Descriptions
Generating patent descriptions from scientific papers is challenging due to fundamental rhetorical and structural disparities between the two genres. Existing approaches treat this as surface-level rewriting, failing to capture the hierarchical reasoning and statutory constraints inherent in patent drafting. We propose FlowPlan-G2P, a graph-mediated generation framework that decomposes this transformation into three stages: (1) Concept Graph Induction, extracting technical entities and functional dependencies into a directed graph; (2) Section-level Planning, partitioning the graph into coherent subgraphs aligned with canonical patent sections; and (3) Graph-Conditioned Generation, synthesizing legally compliant paragraphs conditioned on section-specific subgraphs. Experiments on expert-validated benchmarks reveal that standard NLG metrics systematically favor legally non-compliant outputs over valid patent descriptions, motivating our domain-specific evaluation. Under this evaluation, FlowPlan-G2P with an open-weight backbone consistently outperforms vanilla proprietary models, demonstrating that structured decomposition is a stronger determinant of quality than model scale.
Kris W Pan, Yongmin Yoo
arXiv:2601.02589 · cs.CL, cs.AI · submitted Jan 5, 2026 · updated May 23, 2026
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