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Everybody’s Got a Claim
My professional career started when I was 12, I started building websites for folks on the internet. We’d find each other through forums, they’d pay my invoices, never met in person. At 14, I accessed a router via my play-station-portable, accessing an unprotected AS400 system on a network at a medical billing service and pulled…
IP Copilot Welcomes Daniel Block to Advisory Board
Daniel S. Block brings a rare blend of courtroom savvy and builder energy to IP Copilot. A director in Sterne Kessler’s Electronics Practice Group, Dan specializes in complex patent litigation in federal courts and at the International Trade Commission and has managed more than 100 post‑grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. His…
IP Copilot Welcomes Ryan McCleary to Advisory Board
Ryan McCleary is a seasoned intellectual property attorney and technology expert serving as a Shareholder at Young Basile, an IP-focused law firm. With over 15 years of legal experience and 10 years of industry experience, Ryan has advised innovative technology companies on patent portfolio development, intellectual property litigation, and strategic transactions. His wide-ranging background in…
IP Copilot Welcomes David Schellhase to Advisory Board
IP Copilot, an AI-powered intellectual property management platform, is pleased to announce the appointment of David Schellhase to its Advisory Board. Schellhase brings a wealth of experience as a legal and business leader, having served as General Counsel for industry-defining companies like Salesforce, Groupon, and Slack. As an advisor, he will provide strategic mentorship to…
Weekly PTAB Review: Application 17/412,321 – Toshiba Corp
This week we look at a recent PTAB decision. I pulled one random case from the Board’s docket published over the last few days, where IP Copilot was not used. In Ex parte Hagiwara & Sakurada, the PTAB affirmed §103 rejections for a ThMn₁₂/TbCu7-class magnet composition that included small-amount Be and B ranges. The Board agreed with…
Prior art searching in 2025
If your search strategy still reads like a séance with the spirits of Boolean—quotation marks here, a wildcard there—good news: 2025 is the year prior art search stops being a scavenger hunt and starts behaving like a first‑chair associate who actually read the spec. The center of gravity has shifted from keyword roulette to feature‑level…
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