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Vienna's Global Assignment Deal: A Common Standard by June 2027, and the Recordation Cleanup It Forces

The EPO, JPO and USPTO agreed in Vienna to present a common technical solution for global patent assignment at the IP5 meetings in June 2027. The project is administrative interoperability, not a change in ownership law, but it will expose inconsistent chain-of-title records. KIPO participates through the IP5 channel, so the June 2027 meeting is the date Korean filers should diarize.

Oct 28, 202612 min read

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Downloading Patent Specification Work Records: What’s Included and What to Prepare Separately

Learn which specification, claim, and review decision records are included in Patenty’s audit record package, what to prepare separately, and how to check versions before handover.

Oct 20, 20262 min read

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Revising Patent Specifications: Comparing Changes and Locking Key Phrases

An AI revision review workflow for patent professionals: define the scope, compare changes, lock key phrases, and use saved versions and review records.

Oct 18, 20262 min read

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Product Ideas and CAD Drafts: How to Keep Source Materials and Revision Records Separate for Patent Review

A guide for patent practitioners reviewing product ideas and CAD drafts: retain originals, separate review copies, record revision decisions, and hand over document versions.

Oct 18, 20262 min read

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How should you organize source documents and revision records before reviewing patent materials with AI?

Prepare patent materials for AI review: distinguish source and review documents, check supported file formats, define revision scope, compare versions, and record review decisions.

Oct 18, 20262 min read

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A clear CAD record makes design discussions easier

Keep model versions, dimensions, design choices and comparison views together so reviewers can understand the change and ask useful questions.

Oct 17, 20263 min read

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KIPO Accelerates Biotech, AI, and Robotics Patents: A Portfolio Timing Playbook

KIPO added biotech, AI, and advanced robotics to its prioritized examination program on February 19, 2025, cutting the wait for a first office action from over 18 months to a projected two months. For IP managers, this changes the calculus on when to file, where to file first, and how to sequence global rights.

Aug 10, 20269 min read

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The Anne Frank Judgment and the Territorial Trap for AI Training Data

The CJEU's 2026 ruling on the online publication of Anne Frank's diary clarifies that making a work available without geo-blocking can constitute a communication to the public in every Member State where the work is still protected. For AI developers, public domain status in one jurisdiction does not immunize training data from infringement claims in another.

Aug 2, 202614 min read

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Korea’s Design and Trademark Surge Exposes a Patent-Centric Blind Spot in IP Practice

Korea’s Madrid trademark filings rose 12.1% to 2,346 and Hague design filings 8.1% to 892 in 2024, while international design applications surged 16.8%, far outpacing patent growth. Yet most Korean IP practices remain patent-centric. This shift creates immediate inbound and outbound opportunities for firms that handle trademark and design prosecution, and a growing protection gap for those that don’t.

Jul 22, 20269 min read

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The Agentic Shift in Legal AI: Analyzing Norm Ai’s $1.2 Billion Unicorn Milestone

Norm Ai’s recent $120 million Series C funding round led by Khosla Ventures marks the dawn of 'agentic law' and outcome-based pricing. This analysis explores how hybrid AI-native law firms are reshaping liability, workflow automation, and the economic foundations of the legal and IP industries.

Jul 9, 20269 min read

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The Speed Gap in Korean Patent Examination: What the 2024 Data Means for Filing Strategy

KIPO’s 2024 allowance rate reached 74.6%, but the average time to first office action stretched to 16.1 months. For applicants who can qualify, the 우선심사 (accelerated examination) track cuts that wait to roughly 6 months. The choice between ordinary and accelerated tracks now directly shapes portfolio cost, freedom-to-operate timelines, and the leverage a patentee holds before grant. Here is what the numbers say and what Korean and foreign filers should do with them.

Jul 8, 202616 min read

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The Sovereign Data Collision: Why Frontier AI's Safety Architectures are Splitting the Enterprise Legal Market

Microsoft's internal restriction of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 over data-retention requirements exposes a fundamental clash in the AI value chain. For corporate IP and legal teams, the shift toward invasive foundation-model safety monitoring is dismantling the Zero Data Retention baseline, accelerating a market bifurcation between heavily sandboxed utilities and on-premise 'white-box' reasoning engines.

Jun 25, 202621 min read

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Vienna's Global Assignment Deal: A Common Standard by June 2027, and the Recordation Cleanup It Forces

Downloading Patent Specification Work Records: What’s Included and What to Prepare Separately

Revising Patent Specifications: Comparing Changes and Locking Key Phrases

Product Ideas and CAD Drafts: How to Keep Source Materials and Revision Records Separate for Patent Review

How should you organize source documents and revision records before reviewing patent materials with AI?

A clear CAD record makes design discussions easier

KIPO Accelerates Biotech, AI, and Robotics Patents: A Portfolio Timing Playbook

The Anne Frank Judgment and the Territorial Trap for AI Training Data

Korea’s Design and Trademark Surge Exposes a Patent-Centric Blind Spot in IP Practice

The Agentic Shift in Legal AI: Analyzing Norm Ai’s $1.2 Billion Unicorn Milestone

The Speed Gap in Korean Patent Examination: What the 2024 Data Means for Filing Strategy

The Sovereign Data Collision: Why Frontier AI's Safety Architectures are Splitting the Enterprise Legal Market