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The 3 Modes of AI Use and Which One to Avoid
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, […]
Missed Signals: The Importance of Physical Plausibility in Claim Construction
SATIUS HOLDING, LLC v. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. (2025-1446, October 1, 2026) U.S. Patent No. 6,711,385 (“the 385 patent”) relates to a coupler designed to match the impedance of a transmitter to the impedance of air. The physics problem is a familiar one in RF engineering: signals reflect and lose power when transmitting between media […]
The Prompt Is Not the Proof: Inventorship, Privilege, and Prior Art When AI Does the Thinking
In One Weekend, a High-School Dropout Using AI Shook the Math World For about fifty years, mathematicians inched the proven share of the Riemann zeta function’s nontrivial zeros on the critical line from 33.3% to 41.6%. In a result announced in August 2026, an AI model raised it to 67.2% in about two days of […]
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 […]
Picture Imperfect: Providing Improved Resolution For Analogous-Art
The Nielsen Co. (US), LLC v. TVision Insights, Inc., No. 25-1371 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 14, 2026) U.S. Patent No. 11,470,243 (“the ‘243 patent”) covers audience measurement systems (essentially the technology that watches you while you watch television) ostensibly to count how many people are in the room and whether they are paying attention. The ‘243 […]
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 […]