Counter above: There's a lot of ruin in a system? When I was a summer clerk at a firm they still had a pool of word processors and were using Dictaphones to draft applications, no claim drafting/app drafting software at all. A bunch of women with headphones, tiny recorders and Microsoft Word. Getting people of that ilk to let AI help out would seem to be an impossible task.omaniphil wrote: ↑Fri Dec 16, 2022 10:00 amI was inhouse, but left to go back to a firm a year ago to just do Prep/Pros due to the better lifestyle and money. This week I've started to regret that decision due to ChatGPT. Time to go learn how to be a welder or plumber.5hout wrote: ↑Fri Dec 16, 2022 9:13 am @omaniphil already hit on how this will wreck patent agent/attorney work. Way too much of a patent application, once you've got claims nailed down, is completely routine. Same as above, a custom implementation. Little bit of extra training and you can probably fire a pile of attorneys and replace a few of them with a patent illustrator. Keep the best attorneys/agents around to help with claims/dealing with PTO, but the people sitting around with the drawings and claims in front of them mechanically writing descriptions of each pictured element and how it relates to the other pictured elements? GTFO.
You can probably outcompete that for a long time simply by having the finest in 90s/00s tech. More seriously, with a competent legal secretary/a regular secretary and someone that can do good drawings (assuming your doing mechanical stuff) I'd bet the (money+lifestyle)/stress is very good provided you've got the inventor sourcing taken care of.