SLW Labs

The home for SLW's internal innovation, tools, and strategic AI + IP guidance.

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Innovating with Purpose. Advancing with Perspective.

SLW Labs is the firm’s internal innovation platform: a hub-and-spoke program that brings together proprietary tools, practical frameworks, and emerging technology to solve real-world challenges for our clients and our people.

A small core team maintains the shared infrastructure, security standards, authentication, audit logging, retrieval, and governance practices that every Labs product is held to. Distributed builders across the firm including attorneys, technologists, and external development partners working under SLW direction create domain-specific workflows on top of that platform.

From simulation and data analysis to AI-powered insights and IP strategy, SLW Labs reflects how we explore what's next and apply it where it matters most: in tools, processes, and guidance that support stronger work for clients and better systems for our people.

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ARTY

Our proprietary AI-powered patent drafting, patent prosecution and review platform, in active use across the firm's prosecution practice.

In Development

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SimProf

Our patent prosecution training platform for helping our next generation IP attorneys develop critical thinking skills and build judgement.

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SIDA

An AI-powered invention disclosure intake tool that helps legal teams uncover insights faster and with greater confidence.

How We Build

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How We Build

Our approach to innovation: rooted in client needs, collaboration, security, and responsible AI principles, brought to life in the SLW Sandbox.

AI + IP Insights

For New Patent Attorneys and Agents: Here Is What You Will Learn at SLW

If you are deciding where to begin or continue your patent career, this is a concrete account of how SLW develops the people it hires, and an invitation.  If you are a new patent attorney, a registered patent agent, or a technical specialist weighing where to spend the next few years, you are really asking one […]

How AI Changes the Apprenticeship Path

Inside the SLW Training Apparatus