AI Patent Drafting: How Drafting LLM Takes IP Teams from Disclosure to Application in Hours
Introduction Patent application drafting is one of the most time-consuming tasks in IP practice. A skilled patent attorney typically spends 15 to 30 hours moving from an inventor’s disclosure to a prosecution-ready application — translating technical concepts into claim language,...
Patent Continuation Strategy in 2026: How to Use AI to Identify, Draft, and File Continuations Before Your Competitors Do
Introduction Approximately 50% of all patents granted by the USPTO come from continuation applications. Most companies file continuations reactively — when a product changes, when a claim is challenged in litigation, or when a competitor’s design-around exposes a gap in...
Novelty Checker LLM vs. Traditional Patent Search Firms: What R&D Teams Actually Get From Each
Introduction R&D managers and IP counsel face a real choice when a new invention needs a prior art search. Traditional patent search firms offer expert analysts, curated results, and legal-quality reports — at $1,500 to $5,000 per search with a...
Post-Brexit UK Patent Strategy: What IP Teams Need to Know About EPC, UKIPO, and AI-Powered Prior Art Search
Introduction The UK left the European Union in 2020. It did not leave the European patent system. The UK remains a full member of the European Patent Convention — EPO applications still designate the UK, EP(UK) patents are still granted...
Ideacue + Novelty Checker LLM: The End-to-End Workflow From Invention Idea to Patentable Concept
Introduction Most inventions that fail patentability were not bad ideas. They failed because they were never properly ideated — the full solution space was never explored — or because prior art was discovered too late, after months of R&D investment...
What the Federal Circuit’s First ML Patent Ruling Means for Your R&D Team
Introduction In 2025, the Federal Circuit issued its first substantive Alice analysis for a machine learning patent — Recentive Analytics v. Fox Corp. For patent attorneys, it is a legal precedent. For R&D teams, it is a warning about which...
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