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IPO European Committee Conference 2025: A Fireside Chat on IP and AI
At the European Practice Conference hosted by the IP Owners Association in Paris, one fireside chat stood out for its insight and urgency: “IP Trends and Developments in AI.”
The session was led by two highly respected experts: Jean-François Adam, who covers all things European and currently serves as in-house counsel at Infineon Technologies, and Jonathan Osha, founding partner of Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP, who brought the US perspective. OBWB, a long-time thought leader in cross-border IP, was also the hosting sponsor of this year’s event, held at the elegant Hôtel le Marois in central Paris.
Together, Jean-François and Jonathan offered a compelling look into the evolving challenges of patenting artificial intelligence-based inventions – and why practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic are grappling with inconsistent, outdated frameworks that do not sufficiently reflect the reality of modern innovation implementing AI.
G1/23: Marketed Products Are Prior Art
The Enlarged Board of Appeal issued its decision in G1/23 on July 2, 2025, addressing whether products put on the market before a patent filing date form part of the prior art when their composition or internal structure cannot be reproduced by the skilled person.
AI Claim Charting - Patent Prosecution
Patent prosecution has always hinged on precision, speed, and strategic foresight. Yet as Office Actions grow in both volume and complexity—often bundling multiple §§102 (novelty) and 103 (obviousness) rejections grounded in nuanced claim interpretations and an ever-expanding body of prior art—the traditional toolkit of the patent professional faces serious challenges. Manual claim charting, painstaking annotation of cited references, and labor‑intensive crafting of responses under tight deadlines can create bottlenecks, drive up costs, and leave room for human error.
Enter AI-powered claim charting: a suite of advanced natural language processing (NLP), machine‑learning (ML), and knowledge‑representation technologies that is rapidly reinventing each step of the Office Action workflow. By automating the generation of claim charts, surfacing hidden flaws in Examiner rejections, semantically analyzing claim language, and even proposing targeted response strategies, AI tools are transforming how attorneys and agents prosecute patents.
In this post, we’ll explore four core capabilities of AI‑driven claim charting and how they bring both speed and insight to Office Action responses:
- Automated analysis of Examiner rejections
- Instant flagging of issues and gaps
- Holistic assessment of claim language and prior art
- AI‑generated response strategies
The 5 Best Patent Proofreading Software Solutions for Law Firms (2025)
Key Takeaways
- Proofreading software has become essential: Manual checks can’t keep pace with growing patent complexity and filing volumes. AI solutions can help prevent costly errors, office actions, and post-grant risks.
- Most legacy solutions fall short of quality control: Many platforms rely on basic rule-based checks, lack real-time drafting integration, and offer limited jurisdictional support, creating workflow gaps and added manual work.
- Solve Intelligence for AI-assisted patent review: With seamless drafting integration, tracked changes, auto-propagation of edits, and multi-jurisdiction compliance, Solve Intelligence provides unmatched accuracy and efficiency.
G 1/24 Decision: EPO Clarifies Claim Interpretation
The Enlarged Board of Appeal issued its decision in case G 1/24 on 18 June 2025, concluding that "The description and drawings shall always be consulted to interpret the claims when assessing the patentability of an invention under Articles 52 to 57 EPC, and not only if the person skilled in the art finds a claim to be unclear or ambiguous when read in isolation."
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