Ian Schick is a Non-Residential Fellow at Stanford CodeX, where he leads the Keystone Initiative, a coalition of law firms, technology companies and academic partners developing a neutral standard for how the profession trains the lawyers who will supervise AI’s legal work. He previously led CodeX’s Machine-Generated Legal Documents project (2019–2022) and advises its Computational Antitrust project. He is co-founder and CEO of Paximal, an enterprise agentic AI platform that produces complete, filing-ready patent applications for law firms and in-house IP teams, and a co-founder of Idea Clerk, which brings provisional patent filings within reach of startup founders.

A physicist turned patent attorney, Ian holds a B.S. in engineering physics and a Ph.D. in nano-scale optics from the Colorado School of Mines and a J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law. After a decade in patent practice, including seven years as Counsel at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, he co-founded Specifio in 2017, the first commercially available mass-content generator in legal tech, acquired in 2024, and founded Draft Builders, a managed-workflow service for law firm patent teams. He is a named inventor on ten issued U.S. patents on automated patent drafting, co-author of the Wolters Kluwer treatise Artificial Intelligence and Patents, a six-time honoree of the Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Strategy 300 and a three-time speaker before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). At the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) he chaired the Emerging Technologies Committee (Committee of the Year, 2023), serves on the AI Task Force and co-chairs the Practice Innovation Subcommittee. He advises Juristat and Briefpoint.