Thomson-Reuters-v-ROSS

The long-running copyright litigation between legal research giant Thomson Reuters and now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence took another interesting turn this week, following the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ order that the parties file supplemental briefs addressing the impact of its recent ruling in American Society for Testing & Materials v. UpCodes, Inc.…

The long-running copyright litigation between Thomson Reuters and ROSS Intelligence is now pending in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an interlocutory appeal of the trial judge’s rulings in favor of TR.

Recently here, I reported on the 10 amicus curiae briefs filed in support of ROSS, all arguing that the…

Earlier today, I wrote about the brief filed by Thomson Reuters in its ongoing copyright litigation against the now-closed legal research startup ROSS Intelligence, which is now on an interlocutory appeal to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Like many of the documents that have been filed in this case since it began…

In a redacted brief filed Nov. 19 with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Thomson Reuters urged the court to affirm the Delaware district court’s ruling that ROSS Intelligence infringed Westlaw’s copyrights by copying thousands of its attorney-written headnotes to train an AI-powered legal research tool.

“Copying protectable expression to create a competing substitute…

As the long-running litigation between Thomson Reuters and ROSS Intelligence has moved to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an interlocutory appeal of the trial judge’s copyright rulings in favor of TR, amicus curiae have come out in force to support the position of the now-defunct AI legal research startup that it did…

The judge presiding over the long-running copyright litigation between Thomson Reuters and Ross Intelligence today issued a memorandum opinion explaining his April 10 issuance of an 11th-hour order postponing the scheduled trial to allow Ross to file an interlocutory appeal of the judge’s partial grant of summary judgment.

“Though I am still confident…

For the second time in the long and winding road of the copyright lawsuit brought by Thomson Reuters against the now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence, the trial has been postponed on the eve of its start date.

Although a pretrial conference had been set for yesterday and the trial scheduled for the week of…

In a significant ruling for legal publishing and AI development, a federal judge has granted partial summary judgment to Thomson Reuters in its long-running copyright infringement lawsuit against ROSS Intelligence, finding that ROSS infringed on Westlaw’s copyrighted headnotes and rejecting ROSS’s fair use defense.

The ruling, issued today by 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals 

A federal judge in Delaware has dismissed the claim by now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence that Thomson Reuters violated federal antitrust law by unlawfully tying its search tool to its public law database in order to maintain its dominance in the overall market for legal search platforms.

The ruling brings an end to…

As I wrote here earlier this month, tomorrow was the scheduled start date for the trial in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence, in which TR is alleging that the now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS violated its copyrights by stealing content from Westlaw to build its own product.

But today the judge overseeing the…

For decades, one product, Thomson Reuters Westlaw, has dominated the legal research market. A core foundation of that dominance has been Westlaw’s claims of copyright in several elements of its legal research service, particularly its headnotes and Key Number System.

The validity of those copyrights will be a central issue later this month when the…

It has been a while since I have written about the copyright lawsuit by legal research giant Thomson Reuters against the no-shuttered legal research startup Ross Intelligence, in which TR alleges that Ross stole copyright content from Westlaw to build its own completing legal research product.

But today, the judge overseeing the case, 3rd U.S.…