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AI Native vs. AI Enabled: Questions Every Legal Team Should be Asking their Patent Firms

AI in patent prosecution is quickly becoming common across the industry. As AI capabilities will continue to evolve, new labels will almost certainly replace today’s “AI-enabled” and “AI-native” marketing language. Asking thoughtful questions about how AI is built into the entire process will provide far more insight.

7 minute read September 01, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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Michael Drapkin and Nathan Mutter
AI Native vs. AI Enabled: Questions Every Legal Team Should be Asking their Patent Firms

AI has become the largest technology initiative shaping the legal market with both vendors and law firms marketing the next revolutionary AI capability or service. Firms now promise to protect innovations faster and cheaper and are touting a variety of labels to prove it.

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