Paximal co-founder and CEO Ian Schick, PhD, Esq, served as a featured speaker on the "AI Tools and Patent Prosecution" panel at the 26th Annual Berkeley-Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute (APLI), held December 4‚ 2025, at Stanford Law School.

Co-hosted by Berkeley Law and Stanford Law, APLI is among the most respected continuing legal education programs in patent law, drawing prosecutors, litigators, and in-house counsel for two days of practical, current developments in the field.

Ian's panel focused on where AI tools are genuinely being adopted in prosecution, and, just as importantly, where they fall short. The discussion drew a clear line between tools that simply speed up typing and those that measurably improve the file wrapper: the layered enablement, fallback support, and claim strategy that determine how an application performs once it meets an examiner.

That distinction is central to Paximal's "Born Strong" thesis that the value of AI in patent practice lies not in faster first drafts, but in applications that are stronger on the day they're filed.

We thank the APLI organizers for the invitation and the opportunity to be part of the conversation.