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Arthur Jen and Paul Lee.Patlytics

Patlytics builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation.The startup has raised $40 million in new funding, putting it out in front of the IP-tech landscape.Its CEO says Harvey paved the way, but it can't easily match the nuanced tasks Patlytics handles.As Harvey and Legora race to become the main AI tool for lawyers, a wave of startups is going deeper, building software for more specialized work. Patlytics is one of them, betting that the future of legal tech won't be broad platforms, but software that can handle the complexity others can't.

Founded by Paul Lee and Arthur Jen, Patlytics automates the entire patent lifecycle, helping customers with everything from invention disclosures and filing to complex portfolio management and IP litigation.

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#funding #legal-ai #legal-tech #patents #startups

Academic writing is a different kind of tired.

You have to hold a mental picture of the forest, the trees, and the veins on a single leaf. SIMULTANEOUSLY! (and justify each one to a standard that survives review)..

Then rinse and repeat across days.

You finish a session and you can’t read a text message because you’ve been contextswitching between altitude levels for 13 hours straight and your working memory is just gone.

People don’t see that. They see someone sitting at a desk.
The thinking is the labour and it is relentless.

I say this as someone with 20+ years of commercial and industry experience before I went into academia.

#academics #exhausted #research #patents

The surprisingly genius design of common zippers and why so many have ‘YKK’ on the pull tab

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/surprisingly-dramatic-history-of-zippers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=surprisingly-dramatic-history-of-zippers

The US Patent Office have rejected a Nintendo Pokemon patent for summoning subcharacters https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/the-us-patent-office-have-rejected-a-nintendo-pokemon-patent-for-summoning-subcharacters/

#Nintendo #Pokemon #Patents

The theme for our local photo club's April contest is food photography. I have zero experience with that, but I've had this idea for an old patent marking plate kicking around in my head for years. So I went to the grocery store, grabbed the biggest orange I could find, and literally screwed the plate into the peel.

That counts, right?

#photography #patents #foodphotography

Today, on our way to Saint Etienne to participate to the seminar “As long as you don’t steal we share“ - organised by @jeremienuel @Jap_py

https://aslongasweshare.randomlab.io/

Wed April 1st, 18h30 @ Bar de l’aube, St Etienne, talk :
"Patents as catalysts for potential imaginaries of cognitive capitalism."
(Les brevets comme ouvroirs d’imaginaires potentiels de l’industrie et du capitalisme cognitif.)
about our project ippi, and some

Thur April 2nd, 9h00 @ Esadse, Pôle numérique, workshop :
Permacomputational self-defense protocols against laborious computing.
(Protocoles d’autodéfense permacomputationelle contre l’informatique laborieuse.)

@marcell @valerix @olivierbosson @diagram_studies @davidbenque

#patents #aai #pseudoai #IL #laborious computing #permacomputing

"Last year, a team of American and Chinese researchers published an analysis of international research collaborations. Their machine-learning model identified the lead authors of nearly 6 million scientific teams to see who was actually in charge. The team found that among U.S.-China collaborations, the share of leaders who were affiliated with Chinese institutions had grown from 30 percent in 2010 to 45 percent in 2023. The researchers projected that China will pull even with the U.S. next year or in 2028 at the latest.

In the end, China’s scientific-superpower status will likely depend on the world-changing force of its discoveries. “We don’t just want papers,” Yian Yin, a professor of information science at Cornell, told me. “We want papers that turn into real theoretical insights or technologies.” Some of these can be tracked by looking at how research is cited in patent applications, but this additional diffusion can introduce its own lag of 10 years or more. Even so, China’s fast rise in the applied sciences is already obvious, Yin said. The country is in the midst of a solarpunk revolution. Thanks to its advances in chemistry and materials science, China has caught up with or surpassed the U.S. in the design and manufacture of advanced batteries, electric vehicles, and solar cells—key technologies for the 21st century."

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/03/china-science-superpower/686564/

#China #USA #Science #AcademicPublishing #SuperPower #Patents #SolarPunk #Renewables