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AI X IP Thought Leader Exchange with Solve Intelligence, Haynes Boone, and 100+ Leading Voices in IP
Solve Intelligence partnered with AmLaw 100 firm Haynes Boone to bring together 100+ senior IP leaders in Silicon Valley for a candid discussion on how AI is being used in patent practice today, and how that's shifting over the next 12 months.
The evening was led by Leah Poynter Waterland (Sr. Director, Cisco), Jeff Draeger (Chief Patent Counsel, Intel), David McCombs (Partner and Board Member, Haynes Boone), Tony Capecci (Director of Practice Innovation, Haynes Boone), and Mallun Yen (Founder, Operator Collective; IP leader and Ex-Cisco).
The room was 70% in-house, drawing Heads of IP and senior IP leaders from across enterprise software and cloud (Microsoft, IBM, Snowflake), semiconductors (Intel, Applied Materials), life sciences (Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Gilead), mobility and autonomy (Tesla, Waymo), connected devices and networks (Cisco, Samsung Research America), and AI labs (Mistral AI). The remaining 30% were outside counsel from firms including BCLP, Finnegan, Perkins Coie, Procopio, and Skadden.
Key Insights
- Today, Solve supports global IP teams deploying AI agents for large-scale tasks including search across millions of patent and non-patent literature, portfolio analysis on thousands of assets, and claim charting, focussed on transparent source-backed and auditable outputs.
- Every IP leader in the room had either rolled out an AI patent platform or was in active procurement.
- Successful AI implementation requires collaboration and trusted long-term partnerships between IP teams, vendors, and outside counsel.
- Solve CEO Chris Parsonson expects per-user token usage to grow more than 1000x over the next 12 months.
The market has moved to wide-scale AI deployment
Every leader at the table had either rolled out an AI platform or was in active procurement. The conversation was about deployment.
Three things are now table stakes for any IP team deploying AI at scale: confidentiality, change management, and ROI. Solve has addressed each across over 600 IP teams globally with jurisdiction-specific templates, hands-on onboarding led by qualified patent attorneys and litigators, and enterprise-grade security.
Confidentiality. Solve operates with zero data retention, contractual no-training commitments, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR and CCPA alignment, and AES-256 / TLS 1.3 encryption end to end.
Change management. Solve works with its partners to establish the technical foundations, jurisdiction and client-fit templates, enterprise standard onboarding, and ongoing enablement.
ROI. Solve customers consistently report 60–90% efficiency and quality improvements across drafting, prosecution, and claim charting. The question is no longer whether the gains are real, but how to capture them on the metrics procurement and finance departments care about.
Successful implementation is a collaboration problem
David McCombs (Partner and Board Member, Haynes Boone): "Successful implementation is not just about the technology, but about collaboration and relationships. How do we accelerate things? What can we learn and how can we get there faster and more effectively together?"
In-house leaders shared what they had learned about onboarding, security review, and vendor diligence. Outside counsel shared what they had learned about vendors and technical outputs and workflows.
Solve works with IP teams as long-term partners. Every customer has direct access to our patent attorneys and litigators - US, UK, and European practitioners who have practiced at Carpmaels, Dentons, D Young, Finnegan, Fish & Richardson, HG Law (a Ropes & Gray spin-off), Hoffmann Eitle, Hogan Lovells, Holland & Hart, Mathys & Squire, Morrison Foerster, Quarles & Brady, Reddie & Grose, Sterne Kessler and more. Feedback loops with customers and our Customer Advisory Board bring senior IP leaders directly into the product roadmap.
See our customer case studies with Haynes Boone, Nielsen, and MKS. Today, Solve supports global IP teams deploying AI agents for large-scale tasks including search, portfolio analysis on thousands of assets, and claim charting, focussed on transparent source-backed and auditable outputs, handing off the work to attorneys where legal and commercial judgement is required.
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The next 12 months
Solve CEO, Dr. Chris Parsonson, told the room Solve expects per-user token usage on the platform, a proxy for how much work the AI is doing, to grow more than 1000x over the next 12 months. The constraint isn't demand. It's engineering bandwidth and compute, both of which are being worked on.
Tony Capecci (Director of Practice Innovation, Haynes Boone): "The second best time to start engaging with AI is right now, today. Go engage and use these tools. Try to chunk your work out and see if there are components where you might get some help."
The leaders at the table are not waiting for a perfect tool or the right moment. They are starting from where they are, picking the workflows with the clearest use case, and iterating alongside partners they trust.
Thank you again to our co-hosts and discussion leaders!
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