Patent departments everywhere are running the same experiment right now, often without calling it an experiment at all: dropping a technical specification into an AI translation tool, skimming the output, and moving straight to filing. The sentences read cleanly. The...
Patent attorneys spend years perfecting the language of a single claim, and courts still spend entire hearings arguing over what one word was supposed to mean. That gap between drafting intent and legal interpretation is where a surprising number of patent rights...
Patent attorneys spend years training themselves to notice the difference between words that sound almost identical. A translator without that same instinct can undo that discipline in a single sentence, and the damage often isn't visible until years later, in a...