# The USPTO Created a Two-Tier Innovation Economy and Almost Nobody Noticed

- slug: the-uspto-created-a-two-tier-innovation-economy-and-almost-nobody-noticed
- date: 2026-04-06
- category: Agentics

The November 2025 USPTO guidance on AI-assisted inventorship creates a documentation burden solo inventors cannot easily meet. Large firms already have processes to handle it. That gap is the story.

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