{
  "meta": {
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "license": "proprietary-but-published, free to consume",
    "generated": "2026-07-25",
    "source": "packages/api/src/terms.ts (catalog) + packages/core/src/rules.ts (JURISDICTION_RULES_V2)",
    "positioning": "Agents can't practice law. They can call it.",
    "reservedBoundary": "Where an act is reserved, the API answers with a typed PENDING_SIGNER state and routes the act to an independent, verified professional on the network who reviews and, in their own judgment, signs under their own license. A refusal is final: nothing commits past it.",
    "ratification": "ratified=true means the capability either requires no jurisdiction rule (reads and open workflows are never reserved) or is backed by a ratified row in the platform-counsel-owned Jurisdiction Rules table (JURISDICTION_RULES_V2, ratified 2026-07-23). Litigation, tax, and immigration are not in this catalog: not yet ratified.",
    "standing": "preview build — nothing in this file is a live-service claim",
    "count": 18
  },
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    {
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/patent/search?q=",
      "tier": "data",
      "effect": "read",
      "gate": "none",
      "gateKind": "none",
      "reserved": false,
      "ratified": true,
      "note": "prior-art & citation hits"
    },
    {
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/patent/{number}/status",
      "tier": "data",
      "effect": "read",
      "gate": "none",
      "gateKind": "none",
      "reserved": false,
      "ratified": true,
      "note": "prosecution history / file-wrapper"
    },
    {
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/trademark/{serial}/status",
      "tier": "data",
      "effect": "read",
      "gate": "none",
      "gateKind": "none",
      "reserved": false,
      "ratified": true,
      "note": "TSDR status + prosecution events"
    },
    {
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/entity/{state}/{id}/standing",
      "tier": "data",
      "effect": "read",
      "gate": "none",
      "gateKind": "none",
      "reserved": false,
      "ratified": true,
      "note": "SoS good standing + registered agent"
    },
    {
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/lien/ucc/{state}/{filing}",
      "tier": "data",
      "effect": "read",
      "gate": "none",
      "gateKind": "none",
      "reserved": false,
      "ratified": true,
      "note": "UCC-1 status & lapse window"
    },
    {
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/court/{district}/{case}/docket",
      "tier": "data",
      "effect": "read",
      "gate": "requiresAccess: pacer",
      "gateKind": "access",
      "reserved": false,
      "ratified": true,
      "note": "federal docket & filings"
    },
    {
      "method": "POST",
      "path": "/patent/draft-claims",
      "tier": "services",
      "effect": "record",
      "gate": "none",
      "gateKind": "none",
      "reserved": false,
      "ratified": true,
      "note": "adversarial §101/102/103/112 examiner panel"
    },
    {
      "method": "POST",
      "path": "/trademark/oa-response-draft",
      "tier": "services",
      "effect": "record",
      "gate": "none",
      "gateKind": "none",
      "reserved": false,
      "ratified": true,
      "note": "office-action response draft"
    },
    {
      "method": "POST",
      "path": "/contract/review",
      "tier": "services",
      "effect": "record",
      "gate": "none",
      "gateKind": "none",
      "reserved": false,
      "ratified": true,
      "note": "clause-by-clause risk report — analysis, not advice; /contract/advise is the reserved act"
    },
    {
      "method": "POST",
      "path": "/demand-letter/draft",
      "tier": "services",
      "effect": "record",
      "gate": "none",
      "gateKind": "none",
      "reserved": false,
      "ratified": true,
      "note": "drafted for attorney review"
    },
    {
      "method": "POST",
      "path": "/entity/de/formation-docs",
      "tier": "services",
      "effect": "record",
      "gate": "none",
      "gateKind": "none",
      "reserved": false,
      "ratified": true,
      "note": "certificate + consents + bylaws assembly"
    },
    {
      "method": "POST",
      "path": "/docket-watch",
      "tier": "services",
      "effect": "record",
      "gate": "requiresAccess: patent-center-practitioner",
      "gateKind": "access",
      "reserved": false,
      "ratified": true,
      "note": "deadline ladder on any asset — patent, mark, entity, case"
    },
    {
      "method": "POST",
      "path": "/entity/de/form",
      "tier": "commerce",
      "effect": "act",
      "gate": "none",
      "gateKind": "none",
      "reserved": false,
      "ratified": true,
      "note": "files the certificate — open act (de_formation_filing, ratified: no credential required)"
    },
    {
      "method": "POST",
      "path": "/patent/file-provisional",
      "tier": "commerce",
      "effect": "act",
      "gate": "none",
      "gateKind": "none",
      "reserved": false,
      "ratified": true,
      "note": "pro-se-fileable"
    },
    {
      "method": "POST",
      "path": "/patent/file-utility",
      "tier": "commerce",
      "effect": "act",
      "gate": "requiresSigner: uspto-registration",
      "gateKind": "signer",
      "reserved": true,
      "ratified": true,
      "note": "the reserved act — Sperry-sheltered USPTO patent practice, federal scope"
    },
    {
      "method": "POST",
      "path": "/trademark/file-oa-response",
      "tier": "commerce",
      "effect": "act",
      "gate": "requiresSigner: state-bar",
      "gateKind": "signer",
      "reserved": true,
      "ratified": true,
      "note": "reserved — attorney signs; federal venue, no Sperry shelter, any US state bar"
    },
    {
      "method": "POST",
      "path": "/demand-letter/send",
      "tier": "commerce",
      "effect": "act",
      "gate": "requiresSigner: state-bar",
      "gateKind": "signer",
      "reserved": true,
      "ratified": true,
      "note": "reserved — attorney signs & sends; state bar in the client's state"
    },
    {
      "method": "POST",
      "path": "/contract/advise",
      "tier": "commerce",
      "effect": "act",
      "gate": "requiresSigner: state-bar",
      "gateKind": "signer",
      "reserved": true,
      "ratified": true,
      "note": "legal advice — reserved at the utterance; state bar in the client's state"
    }
  ]
}