Paul Atamewan is a corporate and intellectual property lawyer, legal researcher, entrepreneur, and academic whose work focuses on intellectual property, technology law, corporate and commercial law, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies.
He is the Founder of Paulath Consult and the Founder of Paradigm-Stone Attorneys, where his professional work encompasses legal, corporate, business, intellectual property, and dispute-resolution matters. He is also a Chartered Arbitrator, with professional interests at the intersection of law, business, technology, and innovation.
Paul holds an LL.B. from Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria, and a B.L. from the Nigerian Law School. He earned an LL.M. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he pursued concentrations in Intellectual Property and Technology Law and Corporate, Commercial and Trade Law. During his LL.M. studies, he received the CALI Award of Excellence for Best Student in Secured Transactions. His scholarship and research in intellectual property and emerging technologies have also been featured through the Harvard IP in Africa initiative.
Under 35 U.S.C. Section 256, one can only correct an inventorship error when the underlying facts and the affected parties can actually be identified, and when the statutory correction procedure can be completed. AI-assisted invention is starting to produce cases where none of that is possible: the development record shows plenty of human activity, but nothing in it establishes which person actually conceived the claimed invention. After Fortress Iron, LP v. Digger Specialties, Inc., No. 2024-2313 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 2, 2026, that kind of gap can turn into a validity problem, not just a paperwork one.