When Reasoning Hurts Legal Drafting: The Verbalization Bottleneck in Patent Claim Generation

arXiv:2607.10480v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Patent claim drafting is a challenging legal drafting task that requires technical expertise, precise linguistic control, strict adherence to formal conventions, and the preservation of complex logical relationships among claim elements. While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has been widely used to improve the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), recent evidence suggests that its benefits may be limited, or even negative, in hig...