The IP Trailhead from JMB Davis Ben-David December 2025

Artificial is Artificial

The First Word in AI

Jeremy Ben-David, Founder, Managing Partner

Nvidia has done it again. I’m referring to the ability of the richest publicly traded company in human history to make headlines in Israel. And in case you’re wondering why that might be a challenge, Israel, as tiny as it is, is a place where there are huge headlines daily, sometimes several times a day, making for fierce competition. Earlier this month, Nvidia announced the construction of a mega-campus in northern Israel, declaring Israel to be Nvidia’s “second home”; and yesterday, it was reported that Nvidia is in advanced negotiations to purchased Amnon Sha’shua’s AI21 company for a cool 2-3 billion dollars.

These headlines underscore the status of Israel as a technological and economic powerhouse at the end of 2025 and, set the scene as we transition into 2026. Beyond this, however, they are yet further reminders (as if such were necessary) about the sheer scale of the present and future influence of Artificial Intelligence.

The Potential of AI

I’m not the first person who you would want to ask about the potential of AI. Really. However, the one thing about it of which I am absolutely certain, is that I have no idea of just how powerful it will become and even how it’s used today. I know that it is already embedded in many of the computer-dependent systems that we use, but that’s about it.

For me, the only direct, conscious interaction that I have with AI is with software such as ChatGPT and the like. This is where I come clean and admit that yesterday, in preparation of this article, I tried to use CoPilot as a drafting tool. I tried, but without success.

Mea Culpa

I wanted to discuss the tech investment scene in Israel, as it played out during 2025. I wanted help in pulling together relevant information, the highlights, if you will. All I ended up with were a couple of reports full of technical data. The results were very informative – if all you want is a data sheet. If you have read any of my previous articles, you will know that dry data is not really my thing.

This is not the first time that I have written about AI drafting, and I presume that there will be more to share in the future. However, based on my AI-assisted drafting efforts yesterday, the insight that I would like to share with you is that when I wish to express my thoughts in writing, there is no alternative but to do just that, namely, to actually write!

I need to take pen to paper or fingers-to-keyboard-to-screen, and to compose text which represents the thoughts that I wish to convey. Our thoughts are more than mere data. They express how we relate to data, both from a rational and an emotional point of view, in a manner that is as unique to each of us as our fingerprints.

My Professional Duty to the Client

And this brings me back to my chosen profession as a patent attorney and to my duty to the client who has decided that I should be the person to represent his or her interests. Only I, using the didactic skills which are unique to me specifically, can draft patent claims according to the way that I perceive the invention in the light of the prior art. And only I can defend those claims in the manner so as to achieve the precise goals that I had in mind when drafting the claims in the first place. And when in discussion with a specific Examiner who has his or her own unique thoughts regarding the merits of my claims, only I can fashion my thoughts and arguments so as to achieve the best outcome on behalf of my client.

Artificial…..

I am not saying that AI tools don’t have their place. As tools for research tools, textual analysis, and many other data focused applications, they have already proved themselves. However, when it comes to replacing the ‘me’ that is in me, they fall well short of the mark. There is, after all, a reason that the first word in Artificial Intelligence is “artificial”.

PS Speaking of AI, in this month’s podcast, you can listen to the discussion between Avraham Hermon and Steve Grun, cofounder and CEO of MNDL Bio, a company specializing in AI-driven genetic design and sequence optimization to boost protein and enzyme expression for biomanufacturing and synthetic biology applications.

Happy 2026!