The article reports on a San Francisco event where 40 professionals from technology companies, patent pools, law firms, and consultancies discussed how data and AI can support patent licensing decisions. The keynote showed how mapping ownership and patent-pool coverage for technologies like Wi-Fi 6, and combining that with public royalty information, can frame royalty-rate ranges instead of arguing from intuition. A panel then turned to AI-assisted claim charting, describing how AI-generated charts sometimes conceal fabricated claims, fictitious products, and incorrect mappings that can take longer to untangle than traditional analysis—prompting discussion about how to harness AI without importing new risks.…