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As AI patent drafting technologies become increasingly sophisticated, law firms and alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) may confront client resistance to paying fees and rates in line with pre-AI patent prosecution models. To navigate the new normal, practitioners and their organizations need to take a reflective, proactive approach.

Invention harvesting is a framework for prompting innovators to conceive of new inventions or describe inventions already conceived, and documenting such inventions for subsequent protection via the patenting process or, if appropriate, as trade secrets. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and related software tools can be leveraged by companies, universities, law firms, and IP service providers to overcome common impediments to invention harvesting. Adopting and