A patent portfolio is a series of capital allocation decisions. Each filing commits money, attorney time, and the disclosure of technical detail in exchange for a right whose value depends on the business it protects. Most companies make these decisions under deadline pressure. Patent lawyers hear about an invention only when a conference abstract is…

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If your company’s value depends on owning a diagnostic test, one Patent Office rejection can weaken the asset investors, partners, and acquirers are supposed to believe in. The rejection comes under Section 101. That’s the part of patent law that asks a gatekeeping question: Is this invention even in the category of stuff patents are…

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“AI isn’t patentable.” We hear this regularly from founders using AI to build new products and services. The belief is understandable. It usually grows out of real stories. Many AI patent applications do run into trouble. But it’s not because they use AI. They often fail because the claims attempt to capture what AI accomplishes,…

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AI should do what AI does best, and humans should do what humans do best. But the most valuable work often happens between them. The Real Question Is Role Design The serious question is not whether AI should replace professional judgment. It should not. Nor is the answer to avoid AI because it is imperfect.…

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For technology companies using AI in research and product development, the inventorship question is no longer theoretical. AI systems can generate design options, suggest molecular candidates, propose architectures, summarize prior art, and produce technical outputs that may look inventive. The business risk is not that AI-assisted inventions are categorically unpatentable. The risk is that companies…

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A founder reviewing her outside counsel invoices in Q3 noticed a line item she had seen before: “review of prior prosecution file in preparation for response drafting, 3.4 hours.” She had paid for that line item, or something equivalent, on four separate matters in the past eighteen months. Four attorneys. Four separate reconstructions of context…

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TechNomos AI was founded after watching something specific happen inside traditional law firms. Not bad lawyering. Something more structural: AI being deployed to improve isolated tasks while the operating model underneath those tasks stayed exactly as it was. Research faster. First drafts quicker. Individual workflows accelerated. The strategic context still fragmented. Decisions still made matter…

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