Shumaker Leverages Solve Intelligence to Enhance Service for Intellectual Property Clients

Shumaker is reinforcing its commitment to innovation and client service with Solve Intelligence. By integrating Solve Intelligence, Shumaker is strengthening its ability to help clients move from invention to protection faster while maintaining the precision required for successful patent prosecution.

Solve Intelligence allows Shumaker’s IP lawyers to focus more on crafting strong claims, identifying potential risks, and aligning patent strategy with each client’s broader business objectives. As innovation accelerates across industries, companies are under increasing pressure to protect their IP quickly and effectively.

Patrick Horne, Partner and Intellectual Property National Service Line Leader at Shumaker, describes the value of Solve Intelligence. 

“Solve Intelligence provides our team with powerful tools that enhance the patent drafting process. This technology allows us to focus even more of our time on strategy, claim development, and protecting our clients’ innovations, while improving efficiency in the preparation of high-caliber patent applications.”
Shumaker Leverages Solve Intelligence to Enhance Service for Intellectual Property Clients

Impact of Solve Intelligence

  • Increased efficiency: Enables Shumaker’s attorneys to draft high-quality patent applications more efficiently, while maintaining the rigorous legal analysis and strategic oversight clients expect. 
  • Quality-centered: Reduces the cost of patent preparation for clients, while maintaining the quality and care that complex IP matters demand.
  • Repetitive task reduction: Assists Shumaker’s attorneys in generating structured patent drafts and supporting documentation, reducing time spent on repetitive drafting tasks that traditionally require significant attorney and staff hours.

Investing in the Future

Shumaker now uses Solve Intelligence for patent operations, reflecting Shumaker’s broader commitment to improving how legal services are delivered, while preserving the professional judgment, experience, and client relationships that remain at the core of the firm’s practice.

Jennifer Compton, Managing Partner and Chair of the Management Committee at Shumaker, emphasizes the importance of investing in tools that help clients compete and succeed. 

“As technology transforms the innovation economy, we are committed to evolving alongside our clients Investing in tools like Solve Intelligence ensures that we continue to deliver forward-looking intellectual property services that help our clients compete and succeed.”

David Joo, Founding Member of Product & Partnerships at Solve, states that Shumaker’s IP practice reflects exactly the kind of firm that benefits most from AI integration—a team with deep technical capability serving clients across a wide range of technology fields. 

“The seriousness with which Shumaker's attorneys tested Solve, against real drafting workflows and with real client matters in mind, reflects the firm's broader commitment to client service. That is the right way to adopt AI in patent practice.”

About Shumaker

Shumaker is a United States law firm founded in 1925, with more than 300+ attorneys and advisors across 13 offices. The firm provides a full range of legal services, including intellectual property, corporate, litigation, labor and employment, and regulatory matters, serving clients across industries such as technology, health care, financial services, and manufacturing. Known for its client-focused approach, Shumaker brings together cross-disciplinary teams to deliver practical, business-oriented solutions and help clients move their business forward with confidence. 

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