Press Releases

Empowering Global Experts in IP Business and Innovation: The AICC 2025 Program Held in Seoul, Korea

November 7, 2025: The Korea Invention Promotion Association(KIPA) held the annual MOIP-WIPO-KAIST-KIPA Advanced International Certification Course (AICC) on Intellectual Property successfully in Seoul from November 3 to 6 in collaboration with the Ministry of Intellectual Property (MOIP) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The AICC course, which is being run for the 16th time this year (‘10~), is a…

iPNOTE Raises $1M to Transform Global IP Management with its AI Paralegal

San Francisco, CA and Madrid, Spain: iPNOTE, a legal tech platform that streamlines intellectual property (IP) management, has raised $1M in a seed funding round led by AltaIR Capital, with participation from Hi2 Venture Fundand several angel investors, including partners at Erdem Kaya Patent one of the leading Turkish patent law firms and founders of high-tech startups like Super, Lokalise,…

Adams & Reese Adds 30-Year Patent Strategist Scott Sudderth to Elevate Global IP Team

October 15, 2025: Adams & Reese announces a major lateral hire to its Global Intellectual Property team, adding Partner Scott Sudderth, who has over three decades of exclusive practice in patent, trademark, and copyright law. Scott arrives at Adams & Reese following a 27-year career in the Atlanta office of Womble Bond Dickinson. “I am excited to embark on the…

Former AT&T IP President Scott Frank Joins Junior Advisory Board, Signals AI Adoption Shift in Patent Practice

Atlanta, Oct. 13, 2025: Junior, the AI-powered patent drafting platform, announced the appointment of Scott Frank to its advisory board. Frank managed AT&T’s 10,000-plus patent portfolio and generated more than $500 million in licensing revenue at BellSouth IP Management Corp. during a 33-year career in portfolio strategy. He joins as Junior scales adoption across law firms and corporate intellectual property…

Karla Arias Joins Brownstein’s Intellectual Property Department

Washington, Oct. 6, 2025: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck is pleased to announce that Karla Arias has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as of counsel in the Intellectual Property Department. She brings expertise in patent and trade secret litigation, as well as patent prosecution for clients in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. “Bringing Karla on board is a key step…

Patent Analytics Leader Launches Game-Changing Appeals Module

St. Louis, MO, September 18, 2025: Juristat, a leading provider of patent prosecution solutions, today announced the launch of its Appeals Module. The new capability brings detailed and historic appeal insights directly to IP teams and equips patent professionals with precedent-based metrics and examples to make faster, more confident appeal decisions. Confidence at every critical step The Appeals Module gives attorneys…

Brownstein Adds Additional Intellectual Property Talent

Washington, September 10, 2025: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck is pleased to announce that an additional group of intellectual property attorneys from Crowell & Moring has joined the firm. Shannon Lentz and Debbie Yellin join as shareholders and will be based out of the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. James Reed joins as of counsel and will be based out of the…

Patent Bots Introduces Solutions for In-House Counsel

Somerville, MA: Patent Bots, creator of AI-enabled software for patent attorneys, has introduced new packages of solutions designed for corporate IP legal teams. The individual tools and combinations of them were developed with in-house counsel needs in mind, with products to support automation, proofreading, and most importantly, proactive insights. “In-house teams are challenged on many fronts, with expanding portfolios and often…

LexisNexis Announces Protégé™ AI Assistant in PatentSight+™ to Accelerate Strategic IP Decision Making

New York, September 3, 2025: LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of AI-powered analytics and decision tools, today announced Protégé™ in LexisNexis® PatentSight+™, an intuitive AI assistant for the flagship patent analytics platform. Built for intellectual property professionals and innovation-focused business leaders, Protégé in PatentSight+™ enables users to ask questions in plain language and receive fast, structured, visual answers…

How Top Patent Professionals Are Outperforming the USPTO

St. Louis, MO, August 28, 2025: Juristat, Inc., a leader in patent analytics and prosecution automation, has released Outperforming the USPTO: How to Gain a Competitive Edge in Patent Prosecution, a new case study uncovering the data-driven strategies that separate top-performing patent professionals from the pack. Analyzing seven years of USPTO data, the study reveals how certain attorneys consistently outpace…

U.S. SEP Litigation Landscape Reshaped as PAEs Drive 40%+ of Recent Cases, New LexisNexis Report Reveals

NEW YORK, August 27, 2025: LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of AI-powered analytics and decision tools, today announced the release of its U.S. SEP Litigation Report 2025, showing that litigation cases involving standard-essential patents (SEPs) has risen from 118 in 2014 to 223 in 2024. With more than 200 cases a year now being filed, a growing…

Live Webinar Takes Deep Dive into AI in Patent Law

St. Louis, Mo., August 18, 2025:  Juristat, the leading provider of patent prosecution solutions, is hosting a free webinar, ChatGPT Isn’t Enough: Why Legal Work Needs Specialized AI, on Wednesday, August 27, 2025, at 12:30 p.m. ET / 9:30 a.m. PT. Generative AI tools like ChatGPT have revolutionized how people interact with information. But while they can summarize documents, draft…

Contribution Documents – The Overlooked Goldmine for Prior Art

Patent searches are often insufficient to invalidate SEPs. It’s an art, and one must develop a unique strategy for each case. To address this challenge, we have created an in-house comprehensive database that includes various non-patent literature (NPL) documents, such as meeting materials, reports, email discussions, all versions of standards, and contribution documents submitted to standard-setting organizations (SSOs). Learn more…

Patent Bots Introduces Patent Speed Rankings

Somerville, MA: Patent Bots, creator of AI-enabled software for patent attorneys, is well known for its annual Patent Quality Rankings. The company is pleased to announce an additional analysis of issued patents, the Patent Bots Patent Speed Rankings. To determine the Patent Speed Rankings, Patent Bots processed every patent issued by the USPTO over the course of a year to…

Techson IP Announces its Limestone|Report Partnership Program for Patent Funders, Buyers, IP Counsel, Brokers, and Transaction Intermediaries

Austin, Texas: Techson IP advances its GenAI patent monetization leadership with the launch of its Limestone|Report Partnership Program for Funders, Buyer, Counsel, Brokers and IP Transaction Intermediaries. The program is designed to reduce friction in patent transactions by offering qualified partners the ability to quickly review prospective patent portfolios using Limestone|Report’s Enforceability, Infringement, and Economic results. Prospective buyers and investors…