Earlier today, I reported on the motion to dismiss filed by ROSS Intelligence in a lawsuit filed against it by Thomson Reuters. Now, a TR spokesperson has issued a statement in response to the motion.
Here is the statement:
“Nowhere does ROSS deny that it surreptitiously stole content from Westlaw. It did…
After legal research goliath Thomson Reuters sued legal research startup ROSS Intelligence on May 6, alleging that it stole content from Westlaw, ROSS responded with a vow to fight the lawsuit, denying it did anything wrong and portraying the lawsuit as an anticompetitive tactic by TR to squelch an up-and-coming competitor.
UPDATE:
The legal research startup ROSS Intelligence came out fighting this morning in response to a lawsuit filed against it yesterday by Thomson Reuters alleging ROSS surreptitiously stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research product.
ROSS says it had no need or desire to obtain Westlaw’s copyrighted material —…
[Update: ROSS Comes Out Swinging, Vows To Fight Thomson Reuters’ Lawsuit Alleging Data Theft]
In what could be a Goliath v. David legal battle, legal research giant Thomson Reuters has filed a lawsuit against legal research startup ROSS Intelligence alleging that it surreptitiously stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research…
Thomson Reuters is releasing a new Legislative Insights tool today on Westlaw Edge that uses artificial intelligence to track legislation, predict the likelihood of its passage, and identify the industries it will likely impact.
The tool uses machine learning and natural language processing technology developed by Skopos Labs, a New York-based AI company…
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Every year for the past decade, I have compiled a year-end list of my most-popular posts. Two years ago, by a wide margin, my top-viewed post was about the debut of the LegalBoard, a keyboard designed for lawyers. This year, the LegalBoard again takes the top spot, thanks…
I have made no secret of the fact that I consider litigation analytics to be one of the most important technologies to have gained traction in recent years. Writing about analytics a year ago on Above the Law, I titled the post, This Tech Can Turn the Tables in Litigation. In my year-end summary…
Within the last 10 days, two major legal research companies have launched brief-analysis tools. On July 12, Thomson Reuters unveiled its Quick Check, a feature that will be available starting July 24 to all subscribers to Westlaw Edge, as I reported in this post.
Then last week, Bloomberg Law previewed its forthcoming brief analyzer, which it…
In this corner: CARA, the original AI-powered brief-analysis tool introduced in 2016 by the legal research company Casetext.
In the other corner: Well, no one really, except empty seats behind name cards bearing the names of other brief-analysis products and an audience of curious onlookers.
But its competitors’ no-shows did not stop Casetext from…
Thomson Reuters said today that it has acquired HighQ, a London-based enterprise collaboration and file-sharing platform for the legal industry.
HighQ has more than 400 customers, including more than half of the Global 100 largest law firms, TR said in announcing the acquisition.
It was just a year ago that HighQ announced an…
Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the launch of my podcast LawNext, focused on interviews with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.”
Starting it was a bit of a gamble. As I explained in another post, Why I’m Signing Off the Podcast I’ve Done for 13 Years,…
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