Category: AI & Automation in IP Management

  • The rapid shift to AI prior art search

    In just 15 months, patent teams moved sharply toward a hybrid model combining traditional prior art search with AI. The reasons are practical: faster answers, better inventor conversations, and more informed filing decisions before drafting begins. Patent operations do not usually change this quickly. New tools must be evaluated. Security and confidentiality requirements must be…

  • How Kinaxis accelerated invention disclosure review and patent drafting with IP Copilot

    Overview Kinaxis, a global supply chain software company, manages a software-heavy invention pipeline where the patent team needs to identify strong ideas, pressure-test technical eligibility, gather better inventor input, and move quickly from disclosure to filing. In early 2026, Kinaxis began using IP Copilot as the front-end system for invention disclosure analysis and drafting support.…

  • The IP Operating System: Why Innovation Teams Need More Than Another AI Tool

    The IP Operating System: Why Innovation Teams Need More Than Another AI Tool The world is producing more inventions than traditional IP workflows were designed to absorb. Global R&D spending is now measured in the trillions, and worldwide patent filings reached a record 3.7 million applications in 2024. That is the useful backdrop: not “look,…

  • Everybody’s Got a Claim

    My professional career started when I was 12, I started building websites for folks on the internet. We’d find each other through forums, they’d pay my invoices, never met in person. At 14, I accessed a router via my play-station-portable, accessing an unprotected AS400 system on a network at a medical billing service and pulled…

  • Prior art searching in 2025

    If your search strategy still reads like a séance with the spirits of Boolean—quotation marks here, a wildcard there—good news: 2025 is the year prior art search stops being a scavenger hunt and starts behaving like a first‑chair associate who actually read the spec. The center of gravity has shifted from keyword roulette to feature‑level…