Blog — Forthcoming

Notes from the stacks.

Essays on patents, prior art, and the craft of search — from the people who do it for a living.

In preparation

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Forthcoming
  • i.What a good prior art search actually looks like.
  • ii.Why non-patent literature wins more cases than patents.
  • iii.The six-week search is a pricing artifact, not a method.
  • iv.How AI changes invalidity — and what it doesn’t.
From the editor

Trarian is a research firm, so we write like one. Every essay is short, cited, and aimed at practitioners — patent counsel, litigators, and the teams around them.

No thought leadership. No ghostwritten founder musings. Just notes on the work.