William is a commercial professional with strong experience in the IP and legal technology space. He studied Business Management at Brighton Business School and spent four years in a range of commercial and product roles within the IP searching software sector, working closely with customers and product teams to build and scale solutions for patent and IP professionals.
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Patent drafting doesn’t end when the first draft is complete. In many ways, the most important work begins at review.
Jurisdictional compliance, internal style alignment, claim clarity, sufficiency of disclosure, and formal requirements. Each aspect of drafting applications must be carefully checked before filing. Yet a thorough review is time-intensive, difficult to standardize, and hard to scale across teams and large portfolios, especially when up against a tight deadline.
Enter Solve Review
With Solve Review, practitioners can run structured, customizable AI-powered reviews in minutes rather than hours, while maintaining transparency, collaboration, and full control over the output.
Teams using Solve Review report dramatically, with multi-pass manual reviews that previously took three to four hours completing in a fraction of the time
Key benefits
AI-powered patent reviews in minutes
Each review is fully customizable
Save your reviews as templates, run multiple reviews per application
This session is designed for Heads of IP, Patent Directors, and innovation leaders who want to level up their IP strategy by seeing AI applied in patent drafting, preparation, and prosecution.
Reflections from AUTM: What Tech Transfer Offices Really Need in 2026
Last week, my colleagues and I attended the annual meeting of AUTM, the global association for technology transfer professionals. For anyone building in the intellectual property (IP) space, it’s one of the most important rooms you can be in.
The three-day conference brings together high education decision-makers from around the world who are shaping how intellectual property is evaluated, protected, and commercialized. This year’s conversations revealed something important: the question is no longer if AI will influence tech transfer, but instead about how institutions will integrate it.
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This article provides a practical, structured due diligence checklist your firm can use to help move from abstract concerns about AI risk to a clear, repeatable evaluation, which reduces risk, aligns stakeholders, and speeds up internal approval.
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