This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, I explain why I believe artificial intelligence is unlikely to eliminate experienced patent lawyers. That being said, AI is already transforming prior-art searching, claim comparison, application drafting, office-action responses, and portfolio analysis. But the strategic opportunity for competently using AI is not simply to produce more patents faster, but to reach a substantially better work product within the time and budget previously required to reach an acceptable but incomplete result. With that in mind I predict that AI will expose practitioners whose work consists primarily of commodity production. The post AI Won’t Replace Patent Lawyers—But it is Coming for Commodity Patent Work | IPWatchdog Unleashed appeared first on IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law .