For anyone working in trademarks or IP, INTA26 is one of the few moments in the year when the whole market is in the same place. Firms, in-house teams, service providers, and legal tech companies all show up with the same question in the background: how do we handle…

Of course, on paper, classifying patents by SDG looks like a standard NLP task. In practice, patent data is dense, technical, uneven, and full of signals that are easy to overread. Not every patent belongs in the SDG framework, and relevant information can be spread…

This difference is not trivial. For a patent and trade mark attorney or an in-house counsel, it can result in hours of corrections, real operational risks, and, in the most severe cases, the weakening of the legal protection of a strategic asset. In 2026, the question…