Szymon Pancewicz

Legal & Product Engineer

Szymon joined Solve’s Legal & Product Engineering team from D Young & Co, as a European and UK Patent Attorney. He previously practised at another leading UK private practice firm, Mathys & Squire, and holds a degree in Information and Computer Engineering from the University of Cambridge. Szymon has over six years of experience spanning patent drafting and prosecution, freedom-to-operate analyses, and registered designs, demonstrating a strong blend of legal and technical expertise. His background also includes a secondment at Imperial College London and hands-on experience in patent enforcement. As a native Polish speaker, Szymon adds to Solve’s international reach.

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ARTICLES BYSzymon Pancewicz

July 27, 2026How AI Brings Patent Intelligence Into Every DecisionAI makes it practical to rerun patent intelligence as products and patent rights develop. For example, at concept stage, broad freedom-to-operate screening identifies the rights that merit attention. As the design matures, selected patents are escalated for feature-by-feature claim charts, while scheduled monitoring refreshes the analysis when claims are amended or an application proceeds to grant. This contrasts with the traditional approach, in which landscapes, FTO reviews, and portfolio analyses were commissioned as separate projects at fixed stages. Each took substantial time to complete and was rarely repeated.Read article

June 8, 2026Patents and Standards 2026: When SEP portfolios outgrow human reviewThe 8th UCL Patents and Standards conference brought together all the key standard essential patent (SEP) players on both the holder and implementer sides. By the end of day two, one technical question kept resurfacing across panels that were nominally discussing other topics. How does anyone actually assess essentiality and validity at the scale modern declared portfolios now reach? At Solve Intelligence , this is the question we have built our platform to answer. Key takeaways At today's portfolio scales, AI is a precondition for SEP essentiality and validity assessment, not an enhancement of human review. Streaming standards are fully in SEP territory, bringing implementers with no licensing history into the same mapping problems as in cellular standards. SEP disputes default to parallel multi-jurisdiction proceedings, requiring position alignment across every forum before the first filing.Read article