Episode #44
AI for Patent Attorneys Q&A
Feb 3, 20267 min
I’m answering the three questions every patent attorney is asking about AI right now: 1. Is cloud AI safe? 2. Can I trust AI? 3. What about hallucinations?
technology
The Best Practice
Hosted by Bastian Best · technology · EN
About this Podcast:
Patents, AI, and the future of attorney practice.
Pitch Analysis
Required Pod Score for this podcast. PitchCentric checks your profile against host openness, topical fit, and audience signals before you generate a pitch.
Contact path
Verified email
Booking probability
31%
Guest openness
Selective
80/100
Required Score
Sign up to generate a grounded pitch for The Best Practice.
Signup to Generate a PitchQuestions about The Best Practice
Who hosts The Best Practice?
The Best Practice is hosted by Bastian Best. The show has published 44 episodes to date.
What has The Best Practice covered recently?
Recent episodes include "AI for Patent Attorneys Q&A" (3 February 2026, 7 minutes), "My Exact 10-Step Process for Drafting Patent Claims" (27 January 2026, 13 minutes), and "How to install a 100% PRIVATE local AI chatbot" (20 January 2026, 8 minutes).
How often does The Best Practice publish?
The Best Practice publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 15 minutes across 44 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on The Best Practice?
Booking probability for The Best Practice is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Best Practice requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Best Practice's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch The Best Practice?
The strongest fits for The Best Practice are Law & Legal Services. The Best Practice has a technology audience.
About the host
Bastian Best hosts The Best Practice, a technology podcast with 44 episodes published.
Verified host email: ████████@████.comSign in to unlock →
Recent episodes
Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.
- Jan 27, 202613 min
In this screensharing session, I'm sharing my complete step-by-step claim drafting process.
- Jan 20, 20268 min
In this quick tutorial, I show you how to install a local AI chatbot on your computer and write the “Background” section of a patent application. 100% secure, without sending any data to the cloud. This is a screencast...
- Jan 13, 202611 min
Don’t fall into the "One-Click Robot" trap. I share why jumping straight to a 30-page AI-generated draft will likely result in a poorly crafted patent. I explore: The Satisficing Trap: Why we subconsciously accept "good...
- Jan 6, 202610 min
In 2026, there are only two types of patent attorneys: those being replaced by AI, and those becoming indispensable "Mountain Guides". Which one are you? Most of us were trained in the "Advisory Trap": acting as neutral...
View More
Episode #39
The AI Smoking Gun: Will a "Non-Inventive" Report Sink You in Litigation? w/ Robert Plotkin
Nov 12, 202511 minImagine your AI-assisted prior art search concludes an invention is "non-inventive", but you disagree and get the patent? If that AI report is uncovered during litigation discovery years later, is your case destroyed...
Episode #38
Deep Docket: ChatGPT Banned for Legal Advice? / Perplexity Patents / The Rise of Specialist AI
Nov 6, 20255 minThe OpenAI "Legal Advice Ban": Why the social media headlines were wrong. What the new Terms of Use update really means for your professional liability as an attorney or in-house counsel. Perplexity Patents Enters the...
Oct 16, 20256 minIn a world where AI is a common tool, what will be the key differentiator between a great patent attorney and an average one? Maria Luisa Laini has fantastic insights. She also shares her personal AI toolchain for...
Episode #36
Why AI Won’t Replace Patent Attorneys
Oct 9, 20256 minIs artificial intelligence coming for the jobs of patent attorneys? While many believe AI can handle "low-stakes" legal work, today's discussion challenges that entire framework. I argue that the core value of a patent...
- Sep 17, 202528 min
Anthropic, the company behind Claude, has just been granted its very first US patent – and it’s a big one. At 234 pages, this patent isn’t just a technical footnote, it’s a roadmap for how AI agents will move beyond...
- Sep 3, 202527 min
OpenAI's Custom GPT feature just got a new patent, and as a patent attorney, I'm diving into what it means. We'll break down the legal and technical details of this new patent, and what it could mean for the future of...
Episode #33
AI-Assisted Patent Drafting. How I Do It.
May 5, 202516 minI asked the two podcasting AIs from NotebookLM for a recap of my seminar. They summed it up pretty accurately! In my seminar "How to Draft Patents with AI", you get to play through a complete patent drafting workflow...
Mar 12, 202513 minHow to draft patents with AI 👉 https://powerclaim.io/seminar/ I tested ChatGPT and Google Gemini to see if they can research patent case law without hallucinating cases that don’t exist. The results are pretty amazing...
Mar 6, 202510 minI'm explaining how the European Patent Office examines AI patents using the two-hurdle approach. This is a snippet from my 3-hour masterclass on patenting AI. The full masterclass covers: 1. Which parts of an AI...
Feb 4, 202523 minMagicLeap just lost a patent on a biometric information sharing function in their AR headset. The EPO Board of appeal ruled that the patent covered “a mere administrative scheme” rather than a true technical...
Jan 23, 202515 minIf you missed the seminar, join the next one and supercharge your patent drafting with the power of generative AI: https://powerclaim.io/seminar/
- Jan 20, 20259 min
Here's a sneak peek into my seminar "How to Draft Patents With AI". I'll take you from “0” to “Basic AI Literacy” in 3 hours. After the seminar, you can critically evaluate the AI tool landscape and design your own...
- Dec 4, 202434 min
Join patent expert Benita Mackay and me for a discussion on the future of software patents in Europe. We'll go beyond the COMVIK approach and explore potential new standards, especially for AI inventions. In this...
Episode #26
New ChatGPT Patents!
Nov 20, 202425 minIn this session, we’ll dive into even more of OpenAI's latest patent filings that we didn’t get to last time. We need to talk about their strange patent pledge, too. Links from this episode: • Deep dive into the patents...
- Oct 30, 202418 min
https://powerclaim.io/ 👈 prompt cheat sheets and free tutorials in your inbox! This episode dives into a thought-provoking discussion about "Cloud AI vs. Local AI" inspired by a recent debate I had in the LinkedIn...
Recent guests
Recent guests on The Best Practice. Study who booked and why before you pitch.
R
Robert Plotkin
patent attorney, Technology for Mindfulness
B
Benita Mackay
Bryn Aarflot
R
Rudolf Teschemacher
Bardehle Pagenberg
Best industries to pitch The Best Practice for
PitchCentric classifies The Best Practice under these industries. Guests from them are the closest fit, and each links to the best podcasts in that industry.
Similar Podcasts
Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.
More on Professional & Technical Services
Guides and articles for guests pitching shows like this one.
Podcasts like The Best Practice
Is this podcast yours and you'd like to remove or correct details? Request removal or email privacy@pitchcentric.com.
Questions about the free trial? See the pricing FAQ