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Event Tomorrow Marks the End of Commercial Restrictions on the Caselaw Access Project that Digitized All U.S. Case Law

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T he Caselaw Access Project , part of Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab , completed its three-year project to digitize all U.S. case law — some 6.4 million cases dating all the way back to 1658, a span of 360 years. million published cases (and which has continued to grow since then).

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Building On Its Jurisage Merger, CiteRight Launches AI-Powered Tool For Litigators to Summarize and Synthesize Case Law

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Last September, two litigation-focused Canadian legal technology companies, CiteRight and Jurisage, announced their merger, with the promise of combining CiteRight’s litigation drafting program with Jurisage’s AI technology to create an integrated legal research and drafting solution.

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4 E-Discovery Tips from Recent Case Law about New Data Types (Adv.)

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To keep up, they have to learn from case law. In a recent whitepaper from the Exterro E-Discovery Case Law Project, Exterro compiled eight recent case rulings that focus on new data types. For e-discovery professionals looking to keep on top of their game, they can’t turn to the FRCP to stay up to date.

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USPTO Issues Updated Obviousness Guidance Tracing 15 Years of Case Law Following KSR

IP Watchdog

While the USPTO’s examiner guidance doesn’t constitute substantive rulemaking, it traces 15 years of case law from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a notice in the Federal Register providing updated guidance for agency decision-makers on making proper determinations of obviousness under the U.S. Teleflex Inc.

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What Recent Case Law Tells Us About the Importance of Consumer Surveys in Trademark Cases

IP Watchdog

On August 3, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida ruled against plaintiff Vital Pharmaceuticals, Inc.’s s claim of trade dress infringement against defendant Monster Energy Co. due in part to plaintiff’s failure to demonstrate secondary meaning or likelihood of confusion. On June 7, 2021, the U.S.

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Four Tips for Writing Legal Blog Posts that People Will Actually Read

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Legal blog posts follow one of three formats: the case law breakdown, evergreen analysis or future forecast. Here’s how to write a well-structured case law breakdown post. The case law breakdown is the most common type of blog post, so we’ll use it as our example. Let’s face it. Conclusion.

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SCOTUS Nixes McRO Eligibility Argument in Denying Yet Another Section 101 Cert Petition

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The petition, filed by digital photography innovator Plotagraph, had argued against both the abstract idea determination under Federal Circuit case law on technological improvements to computer animations, as well as the district court’s early determination of validity at the motion to dismiss stage.

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