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AI in the Patent Office: What In-House IP Teams Should Know Before Examination Changes the Record
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
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 […]
Training the Next Generation of Strategic IP Advisors: Why SLW Built SIMPROF
Training the Next Generation of Strategic IP Advisors: Why SLW Built SIMPROF AI is changing the apprenticeship path in patent prosecution. SIMPROF is SLW’s deliberate response, a simulation environment that builds the strategic judgment skills AI cannot replace, embedded inside a training apparatus the firm has been investing in for years. There is a quiet concern in […]
More Time for What Matters: How ARTY, SLW’s AI Patent Drafting Tool, Augments Attorney Expertise
More Time for What Matters: How ARTY Augments Attorney Expertise The point of building ARTY was never to take attorneys out of patent prosecution. It was to focus their attention on the parts of the work where their judgment is irreplaceable. This is the fourth and final article in our series on ARTY. There is […]
Can You Actually Keep It Secret?
Can You Actually Keep It Secret? Trade Secrets When Reverse Engineering Gets Cheap In a recent piece I argued that agentic coding is draining your moat. When a capable team with the right tools can reach feature parity in days, the advantage of shipping first stops being defensible and becomes table stakes. That argument has […]
The Menu Changes, Not the Price
The Menu Changes, Not the Price A Few Thoughts on Patent Prosecution in 5, 10, and 15 Years, for In-House and Outside Counsel At a recent conference I attended, a panel was asked what patent prosecution might look like in five, ten, and fifteen years, for both in-house and outside counsel. I have some thoughts. […]