By Melissa Ritti ( September 9, 2025, 14:41 GMT | Insight) -- Two former US Patent and Trademark Office directors offered a pep talk, of sorts, to artificial intelligence holdouts on Monday. The ability to offload prior art search and other time-consuming tasks unique to intellectual property law is “the real value-add,” Michelle K. Lee said, by freeing up practitioners to focus fully on client advocacy.Michelle K. Lee and Andrei Iancu largely see eye to eye on the transformative role artificial intelligence will play — and, in many cases, already plays — on intellectual property prosecution and enforcement....
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