Category «AI»

Safeguarding the Docket: A Roadmap for AI Agent Integration into Patent Docketing Workflows

Deadlines are everything in patent law. A missed deadline can result in abandoned patent applications, loss of rights, and costly malpractice claims. Accordingly, deadline management is one of the most important functions of patent docketing. Traditional docketing systems rely heavily on manual data entry, introducing opportunities for human error. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) agents (“Agents”) offers a practical solution to reduce these risks. Agents can extract deadlines from United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) communications, populate docketing systems, and even provide attorneys with regular updates on upcoming tasks. Agents create a highly reliable docketing system that reduces clerical mistakes and malpractice exposure and may ultimately lower malpractice insurance premiums over time when combined with human oversight. This paper by John Schulte outlines the potential benefits of using AI agents in docketing workflows and proposes an implementation roadmap, including three key safeguards for law firms to consider.

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Subjects: AI, Legal Education, Legal Research, Legal Research Training, Legal Technology, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 24, 2025

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: A Judge Just Cracked Open the Can of Worms AI Firms Were Hoping to Avoid; How to Shield Yourself From Social Media Abuse; AI hallucinations and their risk to cybersecurity operations; the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is withdrawing its Notice of Proposed Rule: Protecting Americans from Harmful Data Broker Practices; Philadelphia woman spends months fixing Social Security error that declared her dead.

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Subjects: AI, Cryptocurrency, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Privacy, Social Media

Recognizing And Dealing With AI Snake Oil

Jerry Lawson reviews Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor’s new book, What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference is a timely wake-up call amidst today’s AI hype. Narayanan and Kapoor are on a mission to help readers separate genuine AI advances from “snake oil” – the bogus or overhyped claims that too often swirl around artificial intelligence. For lawyers and regulators grappling with AI, Narayanan and Kapoor’s analysis provides a much-needed reality check on both the technology’s potential and its pitfalls.

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Subjects: AI, Book Reviews, Legal Education, Legal Research, Legal Technology, Social Media

From Hype to Habits: Comparing Data on Generative AI in Law Firms

Since generative AI was first publicly released over two years ago, a litany of reports has been released that provide insight into how law firms are approaching it and the changing perspectives on its benefits and risks. Nicole L. Black brings the facts to the discussion of how and to what extent law firms are actually implementing AI.

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Subjects: AI, Legal Profession, Legal Research, Legal Technology

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 10, 2025

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: Using AI Can Be Ethically Iffy. Here’s How to Do It Right; How to Make Your iPhone as Secure as Possible; After $243M Crypto Heist, a Crucial Mistake; Postal Service Data Sharing to Deport Immigrants; and AI is getting “creepy good” at geo-guessing.

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Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 3, 2025

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: US State Privacy Legislation Tracker; Social Security Administration Introduces Secure Digital Access to Social Security Numbers; I Scammed My Bank With Just an AI Voice Generator and a Phone Call; European regulators fined TikTok $600 million – social media giant unlawfully transferred users’ personal data from the EU to China; and Internet crimes increased 33 percent in 2024.

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Subjects: AI, Courts & Technology, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Social Media

Software is increasingly being built by AI – so it’s vital to know if it can be trusted

Software is ubiquitous, powering almost every aspect of our lives. The computerised systems in your car alone incorporate tens of millions of lines of code. The increasing digital transformation of our society means that demand for more and better software is likely to continue into the future. Researchers, technologists and data scientists Iván Alfonso and Jordi Cabot. highlight a critical dilemma with the acceleration of AI in all facets of our lives. There are not enough human programmers to build all this software. This means that more and more of the software you use every day is built with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI). Software developers are already very familiar with tools such as GitHub Copilot, a kind of ChatGPT for programmers. It works something like a smart autocomplete tool to increase the productivity of human programmers. But we are now witnessing a more radical revolution, where AI “agents” are poised to carry out many types of development tasks on behalf of human programmers. Agents are programs that use AI to perform tasks and achieve specific objectives for a human user. AI agents can learn and make decisions with some level of autonomy, though they are still under human supervision.

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Subjects: AI, KM, Legal Profession, Legal Research, Technology Trends

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 19, 2025

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: Text Message Scams Cost Consumers $470 Million in 2024, FTC Reports; Trump is shifting cybersecurity to the states, but many aren’t prepared; Homeland Security Email Tells a US Citizen to ‘Immediately’ Self-Deport; OpenAI Tightens Access As Evidence Mounts of AI Model Mimicry; and ICE Just Paid Palantir Tens of Millions for ‘Complete Target Analysis of Known Populations.

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Subjects: AI, Big Data, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Email, Financial System, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines
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