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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 […]

Document Infrastructure that Knows Patent Prosecution A generic system sees a folder of files. A patent matter is not a folder. This is what changes when the infrastructure understands the difference. Open a patent matter in a standard enterprise document system and here is what it sees: a folder, some PDFs, a handful of Word […]

Buying a document system would have been faster. Here is why we are building our own patent document infrastructure instead, and why the deciding factor was not features, but where a client’s data lives.  Pick any active patent matter and ask a plain question: where does it live? The answer is usually a list. The […]

Inside the Hub-and-Spoke: How Attorneys at SLW Build Their Own Tools Most law firm AI initiatives are central teams shipping tools to the rest of the firm. SLW Labs is structured the opposite way, and the structure is the point. There is a familiar pattern in how large organizations approach internal innovation. A central team […]

Introducing SLW Labs: Why We Built the Tools, and What Comes Next After years of evaluating third-party AI drafting tools in production, what we observed is that the most distinctive value comes not from third-party tools, but rather from building our own tooling based on how our patent attorneys actually practice, the firm’s prosecution expertise, […]