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Law360’s weekly Legal Tech Roundup featured Sterne Kessler’s partnership with Clarivate to develop IP-specific AI workflows, announced on October 15, 2026.

The partnership brings together the firm’s deep patent practice expertise with Clarivate’s leading IP data and software to develop practical and efficient AI solutions across the patent life cycle.

Robert Burger, chief operating officer and executive director of Sterne Kessler, said, “We’re excited to partner with Clarivate to bring practitioner insight into the development of AI-enhanced patent workflow solutions. Together, we have an opportunity to rethink how patent intelligence is accessed and applied to develop tools that surface meaningful insights faster, support better decision-making and enable practitioners to spend more of their time on strategic, high-value IP work.”