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Our talented, IP obsessed attorneys work in client-centric teams dedicated to helping you build and strengthen your IP assets.

Protect and Build Your IP Assets With SLW

Focused

We work with laser like focus on protecting and building your IP assets – from creation to filing to prosecution and grant – we’re with you every step of the way.

Client-Centric

We have a deep bench of outstanding IP professionals, who work in collaborative teams to provide highly, personalized  service based on your IP needs.

Innovative

We deliver unique IP services using proprietary tools and advanced data analytics to deliver high quality work products and IP strategies based on your goals.

Respectful

We are respectful and inclusive, ensuring all voices are genuinely heard and valued. We respect where we are from, and we give back to our communities.

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Insights

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, […]

By Lucas Hjelle

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 […]

By Anthony Curtis

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 […]

By Nicholas Lanzatella