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What I Learned About Pressure, Patents, and Presence at the Women's IP Forum

Francesca Cruz — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:36:37 GMT

I walked into my first IPWatchdog's Women's IP Forum last week expecting some really informative panels and solid networking opportunities. Like all conferences, I was planning to follow my usual routine: take notes on the latest hot topics in IP and then write a blog post about what I’d learned.

See Where You Actually Stand on Foreign Filing: IP5 Data in Juristat

Juristat Team — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Ask most IP teams how they are doing outside the US, and the honest answer is a shrug. Not because the data does not exist. Because getting it means logging into five different patent offices, in five different formats, and building a spreadsheet before anyone can answer the question. Decisions about where to expand, defend, or pull back get made on whatever partial picture is available, because the complete one takes too long to assemble.

Juristat and Solve Intelligence Partner to Ground AI Patent Prosecution in Real Patent Office Data

Lauren Bonner — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:27:52 GMT

Juristat Data Layer is now available inside Solve Intelligence, so patent teams can draft and prosecute against more than 20 years of real patent prosecution history from inside the tool they already use.

By Lauren Bonner, CEO, Juristat. Current as of September 2026. Rejection-rate figures below are drawn from Juristat's USPTO prosecution dataset; date window pending a data-team pull.

How Sterne Kessler Uses Patent White Space Analysis to Strengthen Business Development

Juristat Team — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:04:36 GMT

Sophisticated competitive analysis that previously required significant time and resources now takes minutes, not days — and is winning pitches.

Customer: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox. Speaker: Dan Block, Director. Product: Juristat Data Layer (MCP), used inside Claude. Based on a recorded customer interview, August 2026.

Reexamination Data now in Juristat

Juristat Team — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:56:27 GMT

Reexam data is now in Juristat. The web app leverages a filterable dashboard. The Juristat MCP server and API so you can reach it from Claude, Co-Pilot, ChatGPT, or your own systems: live in September 2026.

Claims Analyzer update in Juristat: A Classification Prediction You Can Actually Trust

Juristat Team — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:02:57 GMT

You draft a claim set and want to know one thing: where does this land.

Which Tech Center, which art unit, which CPC class. Get it wrong and you're not just off by a guess, you're setting the wrong prosecution strategy, quoting the wrong timeline, maybe filing claims that were worth rewriting first. Most classification tools answer that question by matching keywords against whatever art happens to be sitting in an index somewhere, and if that index hasn't been updated in years, neither has the prediction.

AI Is Changing How IP Budgets Get Built: Key Takeaways from the IPWatchdog Panel on Patent Forecasting and Budgeting

Francesca Cruz — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:03:41 GMT

This fall, in-house IP teams are facing a familiar ritual: pull last year's numbers, brace for a budget cut, and figure out what to trim without gutting the portfolio's real value. On Tuesday, I participated in a IPWatchdog webinar with Gene Quinn and Jason Harrier (AI Patent Counsel, Salesforce) that tackled this exact problem: how AI is reshaping the budgeting and cost-cutting process for 2027, and what teams of any size can do about it right now.

The New Rules of Patent Challenges in 2026: IPR, EPR, PGR, What's Next

Francesca Cruz — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:26:04 GMT

The rules for challenging a competitor's patent have fundamentally changed in 2026. Inter partes review (IPR) petitions have dropped 65% year-over-year to historic lows. Ex parte reexamination has overtaken IPR as the leading post-grant validity tool for the first time since the America Invents Act. Post-grant review (PGR) windows are closing fast, and third-party pre-issuance submissions are drawing renewed attention from IP strategists. If your patent challenge playbook hasn't been updated, it's already outdated.

IP Counsel Cafe 2026: AI in IP Strategy

Francesca Cruz — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:31:06 GMT

Notes from the IP Counsel Cafe Silicon Valley Meeting on what AI is actually doing for in-house IP teams: real efficiency, fragmented workflows, and the growing gap between client expectations and firm reality.

5 AI Prompts Patent Teams Can Actually Use

allyssa.woodson@juristat.com (Allyssa Woodson) — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:54:52 GMT

These five AI prompts help patent professionals make better prosecution decisions, forecast client outcomes, evaluate examiner interviews, protect claim scope, and identify business development opportunities using prosecution data.