The book · 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Patent Practice: No Patent Attorneys Were Harmed in the Making of this AI Revolution
By Dr. Roberto Rosas and Juan Vasquez, Esq. · with co-authors Dianisa Erica Sosa, Francisco Javier Hernandez-Rodriguez, Daniel Kovach
Outskirts Press, 2024 · Also available in Spanish: Inteligencia Artificial (IA) en la Práctica de Patentes — presented to the Justices of the Supreme Court of Jalisco, Mexico.
About the book
AI arrived in patent practice faster than the profession's ability to reason about it. Some attorneys treat it as an existential threat; others paste client matters into chatbots and hope. Both are wrong — and both are expensive.
Written by a patent attorney who spent his first career as an electrical engineer and Air Force cybersecurity officer, this book walks through what AI systems actually do, what that means for preparation, prosecution, and analysis work, and how to capture the leverage without inheriting the liability.
As the subtitle promises: no patent attorneys were harmed in the making of this AI revolution — the point is that they don't have to be.
What readers will learn
- What today’s AI systems actually do — explained for lawyers, without the hype
- Where AI genuinely helps in patent preparation and prosecution, and where it fails
- The malpractice, confidentiality, and candor risks — and how to manage them
- How to evaluate AI tools before trusting them with client work
- What the AI shift means for the economics and ethics of patent practice