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Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping patent practice, but before IP teams embrace any AI solution, they run through a complex evaluation process that goes far beyond impressive demos and bold efficiency claims. In this session, patent practitioners and AI experts will unpack the real questions law firms and in-house teams ask before they are willing to trust, deploy, and rely…
Please join us at IPWatchdog Studios in Ashburn, Virginia, for our Third Annual Women’s IP Forum, taking place September 23-25, 2026. Following the tremendous success of last year's event - our largest and most successful program ever hosted at IPWatchdog Studios - we are excited to bring you an even bigger and better experience this year. The program will feature…
From university labs to startup breakthroughs to world-leading industries, what makes innovation ecosystems thrive? Join the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) on Wednesday, September 23, 2:30-3:30 PM ET for a conversation on the report Idea Factories: How Intellectual Property Sustains and Cultivates Technology Ecosystems. Moderated by Safi Bahcall, bestselling author of Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win…
Join us on Tuesday, September 29th, at 12 PM CST for a complimentary 30-minute webinar: "AI Skills: A Phased Roadmap for Junior and Senior Attorneys." Time: 10 A.M. Pacific / 12 P.M. Central / 1 P.M. Eastern Place: Virtual - Zoom Cost: Complimentary CLE Credit: We will apply for 0.5 hours of CLE credit for Minnesota, California, Texas, and Washington…
Determining which companies and products may be practicing patented claims, and therefore warrant licensing, partnership, or enforcement analysis, has traditionally been a slow, manual, and incomplete process. AI has the potential to change that, but speed does not guarantee reliability. Systems that merely prompt a general-purpose language model and present its output as fact can produce confident but unverifiable -…
Join counsel and amici participating in Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg, No. 24-3367 (9th Cir. 2026) for an analysis of the Ninth Circuit’s en banc rehearing just days after oral argument. Wednesday, October 7, 2026 1:30-3:00 p.m. Eastern 10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon Pacific Click here to learn more, register, and submit your questions in advance: This panel will not be recorded. Please…
A patent portfolio can look extensive on paper and still fail to protect the products and features that drive the business. Product designs evolve, components are reused across product lines, patents expire, and jurisdictional differences can leave commercially important innovations only partially protected - or not protected at all. Unless counsel systematically connects current product features to enforceable patent claims,…
University technology transfer and IP offices, together with law school clinics, manage a combination of demands rarely found elsewhere in patent practice. They may process hundreds of early-stage invention disclosures each year, work with faculty inventors who are unfamiliar with patent and commercialization processes, advance licensing opportunities with limited resources, and - in clinic settings - train students while maintaining…
Save the date for the Fifth Annual Life Sciences Masters™ 2026 program, a part of the IPWatchdog Masters™ series. The program is scheduled for Monday, November 9, through Wednesday, November 11, 2026, at IPWatchdog Studios in Ashburn, VA. Details to follow...
Please join us for our Seventh Annual Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) program. This high-level, interactive program will feature discussions on all aspects of the PTAB practice led by highly experienced PTAB practitioners and top thought leaders in the industry. The Virtual PTAB 2027 program will be held on Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the week of February 1-5,…
Our SEVENTH annual IPWatchdog LIVE conference will be held on April 4-6, of 2027 at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View hotel in Arlington, VA. This program brings together the intellectual property community from the US and Abroad – from former and current federal and district court judges, current and former high-ranking USPTO and other government leadership, in-house counsel from corporations…