Concepts

Packs & tool access

Tools are grouped into packs by practice area. Which tools appear in your assistant is the intersection of your plan and the packs enabled for your membership.

The seven packs

core

Core

Always-enabled utility tools — math, web search, templates, and status. Available on every plan, never gated.

ip

Patent, trademark, and IP rules — USPTO patents, TSDR trademarks, EPO, the MPEP, IP titles of the U.S. Code and CFR, and the full prior-art suite (ODP, Google Patents, CCD examiner citations, PubMed/PMC, academic search, preprints, ClinicalTrials.gov).

litigation

Litigation

Federal rules, the deadline calculator, case law, the U.S. Code, citation formatting, and PACER fetch (bring-your-own credentials).

corporate

Corporate

Corporate and securities sources — SEC EDGAR filings search/retrieval and sanctions screening.

regulatory

Regulatory

Regulatory and administrative-law sources — Federal Register rulemakings and the Code of Federal Regulations (current and historical text).

international

International

Cross-border patent and registry sources (e.g. EPO).

compliance

Compliance

Sanctions and restricted-party screening — OFAC SDN and the full Consolidated Screening List.

How gating works

Core is always on, regardless of plan or restrictions.
Every other tool belongs to one or more packs and is shown only when one of its packs is enabled for you.
Your plan determines the base pack set (see Plans & limits). Owners and admins can further restrict an individual member to a subset of packs — useful for scoping a paralegal to litigation tools, for example.

Two different “paid” concepts — don’t conflate them

PocketPart distinguishes two separate capabilities. They often travel together on paid plans, but they are not the same thing:

Paid-tools

Your plan unlocks tools that are backed by paid upstream services (for example, EPO patent data). PocketPart pays the upstream; you just need a plan that enables those tools. Free does not include them.

BYO credentials (BYOAK)

Some sources require your own account and login, stored on your org, and bill you directly. PACER is the canonical example — see PACER credentials.

In short: paid-tools is “your plan turns the tool on,” while BYO credentials is “you supply the account the tool calls on your behalf.”