Legal technology
Kolslaw Utensils.
Tools that just work.
Free Office.js Word add-ins for patent practitioners. Built by a practitioner, for practitioners. No subscription. No data collection. No upsell.
Practical · Offline-capable · Free
The tools
Amendment Converter
Formats claim amendments to strict 37 CFR 1.121 compliance — underlining, strikethrough, and clean claim presentation, automatically.
Snippet Inserter
Insert standardised prosecution language and boilerplate from a curated local library — no server, no auth, Store-compatible.
More tools
IDS formatter, claim dependency checker, and additional prosecution utilities. Free, offline-capable, practitioner-tested.
Why free
Kolslaw Utensils is the firm’s working workshop: small, deterministic tools that remove friction from patent prosecution without adding a subscription, a login, or a data pipeline. The tools run inside Microsoft Word and keep your documents on your machine.
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