You have an idea. You work with your AI to develop the idea until it looks great to you. The AI then asks if you want it to write a patent application. “Wonderful”, you think, “If the AI writes the patent application, I won’t have to pay a lot of money to my patent attorney for drafting an application!” When you send the AI’s document to your patent attorneys, they still want to charge you for their review and/or their full drafting. WHY? Well, it could be grouchiness or self

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Have you ever played Pokemon Go? It’s an exciting game – you see Pokemon characters superimposed on your mobile phone’s view of the world...