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Pulling Teeth for Priority: Federal Circuit Bites into Loose Prior Art Standards
DENTAL MONITORING SAS v. ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC. Dental Monitoring SAS v. Align Technology, Inc. (Aug. 10, 2026) addressed an issue practitioners encounter with some regularity – priority-date requirements for prior art under the AIA. The question was whether a reference with a priority chain in which the earliest, but not latest, priority date predates the application at issue […]
IAM Strategy 300 Winners
What Separates an IP Attorney at SLW From a Patent Attorney Four SLW attorneys were named to the IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists 2026. What the distinction measures says something about how patent work is changing. Every company with an R&D budget eventually runs into a question that goes beyond any single […]
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 […]
Document Infrastructure that Knows Patent Prosecution
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 […]
Why We Built SILO Ourselves for Patent Document Management
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 […]
For New Patent Attorneys and Agents: Here Is What You Will Learn at SLW
If you are deciding where to begin or continue your patent career, this is a concrete account of how SLW develops the people it hires, and an invitation. If you are a new patent attorney, a registered patent agent, or a technical specialist weighing where to spend the next few years, you are really asking one […]