Sughrue Mion has focused exclusively on intellectual property since 1957 and has helped clients obtain more U.S. patents than any other law firm in the world. A technically demanding docket and complex cross-border filings meant that any AI platform under consideration had to demonstrate it could match that standard.
Before committing, the firm put Solve through weeks of intensive testing across the firm, head-to-head against other vendors. Practitioners handling domestic U.S. prosecution and complex international filings both took part, across technology areas including semiconductor design, pharmaceutical, chemical, cellular and network technologies, software and automotive systems. Attorneys assessed the precision of claim language, how useful the office action analysis was in practice, and whether outputs genuinely improved the quality of the work.
The rollout was led by firm leadership, who prioritized practitioner education and a structured implementation framework from day one. Attorneys now use Solve for response formulation on office actions, prior art analysis, global prosecution workflows integrated with local legal texts across the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific, and application drafting support.
The testing results were clear enough to justify an enterprise-wide commitment. According to Managing Partner John Rabena, Solve lets attorneys spend less time on routine aspects of drafting, prosecution and analysis and more on higher-level strategic work for clients’ global patent portfolios.
