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Inside the Hub-and-Spoke: How Attorneys at SLW Build Their Own Tools Most law firm AI initiatives are central teams shipping tools to the rest of the firm. SLW Labs is structured the opposite way, and the structure is the point. There is a familiar pattern in how large organizations approach internal innovation. A central team […]

Introducing SLW Labs: Why We Built the Tools, and What Comes Next After years of evaluating third-party AI drafting tools in production, what we observed is that the most distinctive value comes not from third-party tools, but rather from building our own tooling based on how our patent attorneys actually practice, the firm’s prosecution expertise, […]

TL;DR Because cited non-patent literature (NPL) may be increasingly AI-generated, patent practitioners should examine NPL more closely and develop enablement-based strategies for challenging questionable references. Overview A recent Harvard Kennedy School study¹ on AI-generated scientific papers infiltrating Google Scholar raises important considerations for patent attorneys and IP counsel regarding prior art rejections under § 102 […]