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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 […]
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 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 […]