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Enterprise-Grade Security: ARTY’s Confidentiality Architecture Patent professionals trust ARTY with some of the most sensitive intellectual property in the world: unpublished inventions, prosecution strategy, and attorney-client communications. Security is not a feature ARTY ships with. It is part of how ARTY was designed. This is the second article in a four-part series on ARTY. Last […]

Built-In Quality Assurance: How ARTY Validates Patent Applications at Every Stage ARTY, the proprietary platform shipping out of SLW Labs, is built around a single principle: quality checks should not happen at the end of a process, they should happen throughout that process. This is the first article in a four-part series on ARTY. Two […]

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, […]

A practical way to refill it: inventions.md and fast (detailed!) provisional filings. 

In brief: 

Agentic coding collapses the time and capital advantages that used to protect early-stage software companies. When competitors can reach feature parity in days, “shipping faster” stops being a moat and becomes table stakes. 

One of the few levers you can pull early is intellectual property, but only if you capture inventions while you build. 

The simplest workflow I’ve found: instruct your coding agent to surface patentable technical ideas and log them in an inventions.md file, then file provisional patent applications quickly on the ideas that survive a rough patentability screen.

As a kid growing up in the 1980s, I was captivated by the emerging world of home computers. I had a TI-99/4A first and later upgraded to a Commodore 64.  I spent countless hours as a child writing programs in BASIC, trying to make these first home computers do various things, and absorbed in the possibilities they represented.  In reflecting on the evolution of computers over the decades since those childhood experiences, I’ve come to the realization that one of the major exponential advances in computer technology for users was when home computers became widely available.  That was the biggest change in our lives that came from computers and, in my view, far more transformative than any of the incremental improvements that followed.