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Webinar: Before the Draft – Deciding What Is Worth Patenting in the AI Era

Before the Draft: Deciding What Is Worth Patenting in the AI Era

AI can draft a polished patent application in minutes. That speed assumes the harder question has already been answered: is the underlying invention actually novel and nonobvious enough to justify pursuing protection at all.

That question sits upstream of drafting, and it’s the one AI tools are least equipped to answer on their own. Generative AI can search, organize, and help frame an analysis, but it can’t replace the judgment needed to decide whether an invention is worth the cost of prosecution and portfolio maintenance.

Join IP.com on IPWatchdog Live for Before the Draft: Deciding What Is Worth Patenting in the AI Era, a practical session on the decisions that need to happen before drafting starts.

What the panel will cover

The four decision gates every invention passes through: concept, refinement, filing, and portfolio, and why the earliest gates increasingly determine downstream value
How to tell a fluent AI-generated disclosure apart from an invention that’s genuinely novel and patentable
How corpus-grounded, evidence-based analysis produces patentability assessments that are scored, sourced, and traceable to the patent record
How IP teams can make faster, more defensible pursue, refine, or set-aside decisions before committing drafting and prosecution budget
Why experienced inventors and practitioners still need to drive evaluation and selection, even as AI takes on more of the drafting

Who’s speaking

The panel brings together inventors, practitioners, and IP leaders who make these calls daily:

Sivon Kalminov, Director, Intellectual Property Division, Canon U.S.A., Inc.
Enrico Monteleone, Support Engineer, IBM

Debarshi Nandy, Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Global Finance, Brandeis International Business School

Joe Manico, Research Scientist, Kodak Alaris

Gene Quinn, Founder and CEO of IPWatchdog, moderates.

Details

Before the Draft: Deciding What Is Worth Patenting in the AI Era Thursday
September 3, 2026, 12:00 PM ET
Hosted by IPWatchdog Live, sponsored by IP.com

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