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.”
“We don’t yet know the full scope of AI’s impact, but—unlike the ill-fated dinosaurs of the Cretaceous Period—we still have time to adapt.”
“Extinction was simply proof of failure to adapt.” ~ Michael Crichton, The Lost World
This concern is likened to the dinosaurs’ ultimate bad day posited by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez in 1980.
Author's summary: Law firms must adapt to AI's impact on patent prosecution.