Patent Prosecution’s Fatal Asteroid: Why Law Firms Shouldn’t Wait for AI’s Full Impact
Given the recent proliferation of artificial intelligence patent drafting technology, some in the legal services industry are asking whether AI is the patent profession’s “ultimate bad day.”
As Michael Crichton said in The Lost World:
“Extinction was simply proof of failure to adapt.”
This concern is comparable to the dinosaurs’ ultimate bad day posited by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez in 1980.
Author summary: Law firms must adapt to AI's impact on patent drafting.