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Webinar: How AI Is Transforming IP Strategy Across the Patent Lifecycle
13+ hour, 16+ min ago (274+ words) Artificial intelligence is no longer just a patent drafting or prosecution tool. Increasingly, AI is being deployed across the patent lifecycle to help IP professionals make faster, smarter, and more commercially relevant decisions about patent portfolios, competitive positioning, licensing opportunities,…...
Webinar: Structuring Biological Sequences Data for Patent Drafting - AI Workflows for ST. 26 Sequence Listings
23+ hour, 25+ min ago (174+ words) Patent drafting in the life sciences increasingly depends on the accurate management of complex biological sequence data. This session examines how AI can assist practitioners throughout the drafting workflow " from sequence extraction and organization to preparation of sequence listings ready…...
Webinar: Beyond the Report - Rebuilding FTO with Workflow-Native AI
2+ week, 6+ day ago (177+ words) FTO is no longer constrained by search quality or report generation. The bottleneck is execution and how analysis is created, validated, documented, and operationalized across teams. Most AI tools still optimize for outputs: faster reports, cleaner summaries, incremental efficiency gains....
Webinar: AI That Works in Patent Practice - Practical Use Cases That Reduce Work Without Increasing Risk
1+ week, 1+ day ago (210+ words) Patent teams are under pressure to do more with less, but many AI initiatives still create as much friction as they remove. More tools are not the answer. Better workflows are. On Thursday, May 28, at 12 PM ET, join IPWatchdog's Gene…...
Webinar: Sponsored by Juristat
1+ week, 1+ day ago (198+ words) Patent teams are under pressure to do more with less, but many AI initiatives still create as much friction as they remove. More tools are not the answer. Better workflows are. On Thursday, May 28, at 12 PM ET, join IPWatchdog's Gene…...
Broken Lines are Dashed: USPTO Finally Modernizes Design Patent Guidance for GUIs, VR and AR
1+ week, 4+ day ago (521+ words) Simon Maxwell is a current student at The George Washington University Law School (Class of 2026) and a registered USPTO practitioner. He has worked at Jones Day as a patent agent, where he drafted and prosecuted dozens of utility and design…...
How Successful Patent Practitioners Are Putting AI to Work
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1272+ words) 26 seconds ago" 0 In other words, AI is a tool that practitioners can use, but it must not supplant professional judgment and common sense. AI does not, nor should it, eliminate accountability. It raises the execution bar and enables a better…...
UNC Charlotte Highlights the Power of Invention at 2026 Invention of the Year Awards
2+ week, 4+ day ago (681+ words) 4 hours ago" 0 The University of North Carolina at Charlotte brought together leaders from government, academia, industry, and the defense community for its 2026 Invention of the Year Awards, an evening that showcased the university's growing role as a national engine of…...
The Latest Attempt to Expose SAWS Highlights Structural Flaws at the USPTO
2+ week, 5+ day ago (26+ words) A newly filed joint status report in Morinville v. USPTO underscores the lack of transparency and accountability of secret internal patent review programs at the USPTO....
what mattered 2025 Archives
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (145+ words) Each year IPWatchdog surveys the IP community to get their thoughts on what the biggest moments in IP were that year. Some years, the comments vary greatly depending on respondents" practice or. .. Posts Tagged: "what mattered 2025" Each year IPWatchdog surveys…...