The Best Practice

AI for Patent Attorneys Q&A

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I’m answering the three questions every patent attorney is asking about AI right now: 1. Is cloud AI safe? 2. Can I trust AI? 3. What about hallucin...

How to Draft Patent Claims in 2026

27 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this screensharing session, I'm sharing my complete step-by-step claim drafting process.

How to install a 100% PRIVATE local AI chatbot

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

AI-Powered Patent Claim Drafting. My New Workflow.

13 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How Not to Be Replaced by AI as a Patent Attorney in 2026

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In 2026, there are only two types of patent attorneys: those being replaced by AI, and those becoming indispensable "Mountain Guides". Which one are y...

The AI Smoking Gun: Will a "Non-Inventive" Report Sink You in Litigation? w/ Robert Plotkin

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine your AI-assisted prior art search concludes an invention is "non-inventive", but you disagree and get the patent? If that AI report is uncover...

Deep Docket: ChatGPT Banned for Legal Advice? / Perplexity Patents / The Rise of Specialist AI

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The OpenAI "Legal Advice Ban": Why the social media headlines were wrong. What the new Terms of Use update really means for your professional liabilit...

You Should Get Your Hands Dirty w/ Maria Luisa Laini

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a world where AI is a common tool, what will be the key differentiator between a great patent attorney and an average one? Maria Luisa Laini has fa...

Why AI Won’t Replace Patent Attorneys

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Secret Behind Anthropic's Agentic AI Patent (Claude + Adept + Amazon)

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anthropic, the company behind Claude, has just been granted its very first US patent – and it’s a big one. At 234 pages, this patent isn’t just ...

OpenAI Just Patented Custom GPTs: Patent Attorney Walkthrough

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI's Custom GPT feature just got a new patent, and as a patent attorney, I'm diving into what it means. We'll break down the legal and technical d...

AI-Assisted Patent Drafting. How I Do It.

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I asked the two podcasting AIs from NotebookLM for a recap of my seminar. They summed it up pretty accurately! In my seminar "How to Draft Patents wi...

I Tested ChatGPT and Gemini for Case Law Research

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How to draft patents with AI 👉 https://powerclaim.io/seminar/ I tested ChatGPT and Google Gemini to see if they can research patent case law witho...

Why AI Patents Get Rejected: The 2-Hurdle Test Explained

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I'm explaining how the European Patent Office examines AI patents using the two-hurdle approach. This is a snippet from my 3-hour masterclass on paten...

MagicLeap’s Biometric Patent REVOKED! Patent Attorney Explains Why

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

MagicLeap just lost a patent on a biometric information sharing function in their AR headset. The EPO Board of appeal ruled that the patent covered “...

AI-Powered Patent Drafting In Action (Seminar Recap)

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you missed the seminar, join the next one and supercharge your patent drafting with the power of generative AI: https://powerclaim.io/seminar/

How to Draft Patents with AI 🤖 Seminar Preview

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Here's a sneak peek into my seminar "How to Draft Patents With AI". I'll take you from “0” to “Basic AI Literacy” in 3 hours. After the semina...

What’s After COMVIK? The Future of AI & Software Patents with Benita Mackay

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join patent expert Benita Mackay and me for a discussion on the future of software patents in Europe. We'll go beyond the COMVIK approach and explore ...

New ChatGPT Patents!

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this session, we’ll dive into even more of OpenAI's latest patent filings that we didn’t get to last time. We need to talk about their strange ...

Cloud AI vs. Local AI: What’s Best for Patent Attorneys?

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

https://powerclaim.io/ 👈 prompt cheat sheets and free tutorials in your inbox! This episode dives into a thought-provoking discussion about "Cloud...

Essential AI Tools to Boost Your Patent Attorney Practice in 2024

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I share the exact AI tools I use daily to streamline my patent attorney work. We cover key areas where AI can make a real impact: Pa...

Two robots explain the COMVIK approach

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Google’s NotebookLM just turned any document into a podcast! It’s like having two people discuss the topic in a super realistic conversation. As a...

OpenAI’s New Patents Revealed

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

OpenAI is one of the most influential companies in artificial intelligence, and since I’m both a computer nerd and a patent attorney, we have to tak...

Is this the future of patent drafting?

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I've started to look more seriously into commercial patent drafting software products. One tool called Rowan Patents looked quite promising to me, so ...

When an engineer invents software to optimize chassis shapes ...

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

... this is what happens at the European Patent Office. This is a recording of my weekly AI Patents Coffee Break. Join me live on LinkedIn next time:...

OpenAI's Patents Revealed: Patent Attorney Analysis

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Deep dive into OpenAI’s growing patent portfolio. Let’s explore OpenAI’s patent filing strategy, the technical specifics of their patents, and w...

🇩🇪 Samsungs Roboter-Patent unter der Lupe: Was sagen 2 Patentanwälte? - DPD001

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Zwei Patentanwälte diskutieren über ein neues Samsung-Patent. Es geht um einen Roboter, der sich auf den Benutzer ausrichtet und dafür eine Kombina...

Patenting AI. Ask me anything.

01 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We couldn't cover all the questions in our last session, so here's another Q&A on patents for artificial intelligence and machine learning. This is a...

What Makes a Good AI Patent? Ask Me Anything.

25 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I asked my LinkedIn network to ask me anything about patents for artificial intelligence and machine learning. This is a recorded LinkedIn Live. Sorr...

Patents in the Metaverse

18 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a recording of a presentation I was giving on 29 March 2023 on patents in the Metaverse at the 7th WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property ...

Which AI is patentable in Europe?

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Here's a list of examples of patentable and non-patentable AI in Europe. Book a free virtual coffee meeting with me: https://bestpatent.eu/

Why digital patent drawings are overrated

10 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Technical drawings obviously make great sense in mechanical patents. But in many digital patents the figures have much less value. Here's why.

Why you should care about AI patents

06 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

AI patents are literally everywhere. It’s funny that every time I look up AI-related patent filings for one of my clients you can bet that we see a ...

Patenting blackbox AI?

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“How to claim the AI before it self-adapted?”, especially when you don’t know how the AI adapted itself to the problem domain? This comment by E...

AI/ML is patentable in 2022 if... (simple flowchart)

01 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I believe patent law needs more flowcharts, so here’s one to explain AI/ML patents in Europe. I know it doesn’t answer the question “which aspec...

"But software isn't patentable, is it?"

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"But software isn't patentable, is it?". That's actually a dangerous misconception. Maybe one source of confusion is the statement in the EPO guidelin...

Forgetting this reduces your digital patent value

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Here's one massive flaw in many digital patents, and how you can make it better. Question to you: Is there any good reason for drafting a digital pat...

Beyond Best Practice - Season 2 Trailer

29 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I'm restarting this podcast by sharing everything I know about digital patents in small snackable pieces, because that’s my mission: To help IP prof...

#6 Patents for AI inventions in Europe (🔴Conference talk recording)

02 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I was invited to speak about "Patents for AI inventions in Europe" at the 6th International Conference "Protection of Intellectual Property Rights" in...

#5 G1/19 first reactions w/ Rudolf Teschemacher and many more

17 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, the Enlarged Board of Appeal finally published its long-awaited decision G1/19 about the patentability of computer simulations. Does it rev...

#4 Novelty w/ Patrick Heckeler

03 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

An invention has to be novel to be patentable. But does any difference over the prior art do the job (e.g. a purely aesthetic one) or does it have to ...

#3 Patenting database technology: EPO guidelines update

17 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What types of inventions in database technology are patentable in Europe? The EPO guidelines will be updated on 1 March 2021 with a new section specif...

#2 Artificial intelligence patent case law walkthrough

03 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Basic groundwork today. We're going through 10 EPO Board of Appeal decisions which relate to AI inventions. Topics include technical character, clarit...

#1 Patenting AI in the EPO guidelines

20 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the very first episode of the podcast! As we go through the section on AI and machine learning in the examination guidelines, I'll tell you...