The home for SLW's internal innovation, tools, and strategic AI + IP guidance.
SLW Labs is the firm’s internal innovation platform: a hub-and-spoke program that brings together proprietary tools, practical frameworks, and emerging technology to solve real-world challenges for our clients and our people.
A small core team maintains the shared infrastructure, security standards, authentication, audit logging, retrieval, and governance practices that every Labs product is held to. Distributed builders across the firm including attorneys, technologists, and external development partners working under SLW direction create domain-specific workflows on top of that platform.
From simulation and data analysis to AI-powered insights and IP strategy, SLW Labs reflects how we explore what's next and apply it where it matters most: in tools, processes, and guidance that support stronger work for clients and better systems for our people.
Our proprietary AI-powered patent drafting, patent prosecution and review platform, in active use across the firm's prosecution practice.
Our patent prosecution training platform for helping our next generation IP attorneys develop critical thinking skills and build judgement.
An AI-powered invention disclosure intake tool that helps legal teams uncover insights faster and with greater confidence.
Our approach to innovation: rooted in client needs, collaboration, security, and responsible AI principles, brought to life in the SLW Sandbox.
How you work with AI matters more than how much you know about AI. The mode to watch out for is the one where you review the AI’s output closely but look at the wrong things. Overview A July 2026 Harvard Business Review article, Shaping Early-Career Success in the Age of AI, by Agarwal, Barua, […]
Patent offices are moving AI from experimentation into search and examination support workflows. For in-house IP teams, the practical response isn’t more automation for its own sake; it’s to strengthen prosecution readiness before filing so applicants can make the most of earlier, better-informed examination. For the last several years, most conversations about artificial intelligence and […]
What Comes Next: SAGE, ATLAS, and the Prosecution Operating System Take the individual tools out of view for a moment. What SLW Labs is really building is a single layer the firm practices on top of. Here is where it goes next. A Legal Patent Prosecution Operating System For most of this series we have […]