Hauptman Ham Integrates Solve Intelligence into Patent Practice

Hauptman Ham is redefining patent prosecution with Solve Intelligence. By integrating AI-driven workflows into their patent practice, Hauptman Ham attorneys and agents are delivering office action responses that set a new standard—precise, insightful, and creatively crafted. Their clients are gaining a strategic edge with more innovative outcomes that stand out in a competitive landscape.  

Firm leader Ron Embry describes the value of Solve Intelligence in Hauptman Ham’s patent practice.

“The Patent Copilot system allows practitioners at Hauptman Ham to use more creative strategies in pursuit of broad, defensible patent claims for our clients. We use the advanced functionality of the Solve Intelligence system to explore multiple potential avenues in responding to rejections and prosecuting families of patent applications. We find the tool to be quite useful in integrating different legal strategies into one unified, comprehensive, and nuanced approach to obtaining patent protection for our clients.”
 Hauptman Ham Integrates Solve Intelligence into Patent Practice

Key Insights

  • Solve Intelligence helps streamline the application drafting process by integrating invention disclosure review and analysis, figure preparation, application drafting, and office action analysis into one platform.
  • Hauptman Ham chose Solve Intelligence after conducting a broad testing program, with participation from practitioners across the firm who have domestic US and international expertise.
  • Solve Intelligence provides a powerful way to evaluate and compare strategies and tactics, and gives practitioners more ways to identify the best approaches to U.S. patent prosecution.

About Hauptman Ham

Hauptman Ham occupies a unique space in the intellectual property landscape. Founded in 1956, with headquarters just a few steps away from the USPTO in Alexandria, Virginia, the firm serves as a critical gateway for innovation entering the US market from global jurisdictions. Hauptman Ham also has leading expertise in global patent prosecution to help its clients obtain and monetize valuable intellectual property around the world.

With a robust presence in Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, and Taipei, Hauptman Ham is trusted by some of the world’s largest electronic and manufacturing companies to secure their assets in the United States. Behind their global operation is a commitment to pragmatic, value-driven results.

That commitment is now driving a new phase of modernization within the firm's practice.

Strategic Collaboration

Hauptman Ham’s adoption of Solve Intelligence reinforces its commitment to innovation and superior client service. In partnership with firm leadership, Hauptman Ham is using Solve Intelligence to develop patent workflows to execute on delivering high quality work product timely and for high-complexity cross-border filings.

A broad testing program involving various members of the firm with both domestic US and international filing experience confirmed that Solve Intelligence could handle the specific rigors of the firm’s diverse docket.

Solve Intelligence in Action

Hauptman Ham now uses Solve Intelligence for patent operations. The platform accelerates drafting and improves argument quality, helping the firm deliver higher quality, higher value patents for their clients.

Here are some ways that practitioners at Hauptman Ham are using Solve Intelligence to enhance their patent workflows:

  • Response formulation: Summarizes examiner rejections, identifies key grounds of rejection, and suggests counterarguments where appropriate. This streamlines the response process for the firm, which handles a significant volume of prosecution work.
  • Prior art analysis: Provides fast and thorough analysis of cited references, helping practitioners quickly distinguish client inventions from existing art to secure the broadest possible protection.

Solve Intelligence is helping Hauptman Ham modernize patent work with AI. The platform brings AI-enabled drafting and analysis that helps the firm work faster and smarter on patent prosecution and portfolio strategy, supporting Hauptman Ham's reputation for proactively recognizing innovations, determining strategic value, and managing portfolios that protect client competitiveness.

A Future Focused Practice

By automating the labor-intensive aspects of patent prosecution, practitioners at Hauptman Ham can focus on what matters most: helping their global clientele navigate the nuances of US patent law.

The partnership with Solve enables Hauptman Ham’s prosecution group to deliver more precise work more effectively for their global clients. 

As the firm approaches its 70-year legacy, the firm exemplifies how established IP boutiques can modernize while maintaining their core commitment to client service and quality work.

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Marbury Law sees 3x-4x efficiency gain from using Solve Intelligence

Key Insights

  • AI adoption requires proof. Bob and his team tested multiple tools before committing, and only moved forward once they saw quantifiable results.
  • 3 to 4x efficiency gains changed the business case. By tracking his own drafting time, Bob demonstrated that AI-enabled workflows made fixed-fee work viable at partner rates.
  • Demonstration drives adoption. Live drafting sessions, client transparency, and side-by-side cost comparisons created full buy-in from both clients and colleagues.
  • Integrated chat removes friction. Keeping research, drafting, and revisions inside one contextual workspace eliminated copy-paste workflows and saved significant time.
  • Context is a force multiplier. AI performs best when it understands the full invention disclosure, file history, and drafting materials in one place.
  • Speed expands strategic value. Faster drafting didn’t just save time - it enabled better coverage, stronger enablement, and real-time responsiveness to client needs.

About Marbury Law

The Marbury Law Group is a premier mid-size, full-service intellectual property and technology law firm in the Washington, D.C. area, with additional strength in commercial law, litigation, and trademark litigation. Recognized by Juristat as a top 35 law firm nationwide and holding Martindale-Hubbell’s AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating, Marbury serves clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies and mid-size technology businesses to high-tech startups and inventors. Its practitioners bring unusually wide-ranging experience, including former technology executives, government R&D managers, startup founders, in-house counsel, “big-law” attorneys, USPTO patent examiners, and judicial clerks. 

Marbury delivers “big-law” service with the flexibility and personal attention of a smaller firm, pairing high-quality work with efficient, budget-aware billing. Based near the USPTO, the firm has drafted and prosecuted thousands of U.S. and foreign patent applications and trademarks, and advises on IP strategy, diligence, and licensing. Formed in 2009 through the merger of two established practices (with roots dating back to 1994), the firm takes its name from Marbury v. Madison (1803), the landmark Supreme Court case that established judicial review.

Introduction

When we sat down with Bob Hansen for this conversation, we knew it would be grounded in both legal depth and real-world business experience. Bob is a founding partner of The Marbury Law Group and has extensive experience across patent prosecution, litigation, licensing, portfolio strategy, and complex IP transactions. But what makes his perspective particularly compelling is that he also brings 20 years of real-world experience as an engineer, program manager, and business executive in Fortune 50 companies and start-ups. He understands firsthand how innovation moves from idea to product, and how intellectual property law fits into that journey.

That dual lens is exactly why we wanted to have this discussion. Bob evaluates technology not just as a patent attorney, but as someone who has managed engineering teams, navigated acquisitions and divestitures, raised capital, and built businesses. When someone with that background says AI has been transformative and backs it up with measurable 3 to 4x efficiency gains, it’s worth listening.

Introducing Solve Review: A Practical Guide to AI-Powered Patent Review

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
  • Full transparency of working out and results
  • Resolve issues detected by Solve Review with AI

Potter Clarkson Enhances Patent Practice with Solve Intelligence

Solve Intelligence is deployed at Potter Clarkson as a practitioner-led platform, designed to enhance - not replace - the expertise of experienced patent attorneys. The firm uses the technology primarily at a senior level, where skilled practitioners are able to prompt and interrogate the system effectively to guide high-quality outputs.

By combining advanced AI capability with deep technical and legal experience, the platform enables senior attorneys to work more efficiently while focusing their time and judgement on strategic advice, complex analysis and client value. This reflects the firm’s long-standing philosophy that technology should strengthen the role of the practitioner, not substitute professional expertise.

“At Potter Clarkson, our priority is delivering technically rigorous and strategically sound advice to our clients. We use Solve Intelligence as a tool in the hands of experienced patent attorneys - professionals who understand how to guide, challenge and refine AI-generated outputs. It allows our senior teams to concentrate on the aspects of drafting and prosecution where their judgement adds the greatest value, while maintaining full control over quality and client strategy.”

Peter Finnie, Partner, Potter Clarkson

Since rolling out Solve Intelligence’s Patent Copilot, the firm has tailored the platform to reflect its established house styles and drafting standards. This customisation reduces administrative burden and supports consistency across teams, enabling practitioners to engage with AI efficiently without compromising on quality, client-specific requirements, or the firm’s distinctive approach.

Peter Finnie to join Solve's Customer Advisory Board

We are excited to welcome Peter Finnie, Partner at Potter Clarkson, to Solve Intelligence’s Customer Advisory Board.