The home for SLW's internal innovation, tools, and strategic AI + IP guidance.
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.
Our proprietary AI-powered patent drafting, patent prosecution and review platform, in active use across the firm's prosecution practice.
Our patent prosecution training platform for helping our next generation IP attorneys develop critical thinking skills and build judgement.
An AI-powered invention disclosure intake tool that helps legal teams uncover insights faster and with greater confidence.
Our approach to innovation: rooted in client needs, collaboration, security, and responsible AI principles, brought to life in the SLW Sandbox.
Trade Secrets When Reverse Engineering Gets Cheap In a recent piece I argued that agentic coding is draining your moat. When a capable team with the right tools can reach feature parity in days, the advantage of shipping first stops being defensible and becomes table stakes. That argument has a companion. Many companies, having watched […]
Most AI tools used in legal work were not designed for legal work. They were designed for general documents and adapted to legal contexts. ARTY was designed the other way around. This is the third article in a four-part series on ARTY. There is a category of AI tool in the legal market that does […]
A Few Thoughts on Patent Prosecution in 5, 10, and 15 Years, for In-House and Outside Counsel At a recent conference I attended, a panel was asked what patent prosecution might look like in five, ten, and fifteen years, for both in-house and outside counsel. I have some thoughts. Predictions in this area should be […]