July 26, 2024
The first copyright trial arising from an artificial intelligence platform could provide intellectual property attorneys with insight into dozens of pending suits against AI companies, while the Tenth Circuit is reconsidering whether Netflix made fair use of a funeral clip in its "Tiger King" docuseries.
September 25, 2023
A Delaware federal court has mostly denied bids from Thomson Reuters and ROSS Intelligence for pretrial wins in a suit claiming ROSS ripped off the Westlaw research platform, saying it's not the judge's place at this point to "tidy ... factual messes."
September 15, 2023
In a suit alleging ROSS Intelligence improperly used its Westlaw platform to create a new product, Thomson Reuters argued ROSS' antitrust counterclaims fail because there is zero evidence that any legal researcher has mixed and matched legal research platforms.
February 24, 2023
Copying the work of a competitor's editors to create an artificial intelligence-powered database is an undisputed violation of copyright, Thomson Reuters told a Delaware federal court Thursday asking for summary judgment against ROSS Intelligence Inc., which Thomson Reuters accuses of illegally using its Westlaw without permission or compensation to create another product.
February 07, 2023
Legal services company ROSS Intelligence has fallen short of showing that it engaged in fair use when it created a database that Thomson Reuters alleges illegally used its law database, Westlaw, without permission or compensation, the media conglomerate argued to a Delaware federal court in a filing.
January 06, 2023
ROSS Intelligence engaged in fair use of Thomson Reuters' law database Westlaw when it developed its own law database, the legal research rival has contended in Delaware federal court.
April 26, 2022
Legal research startup Ross Intelligence can pursue counterclaims that Thomson Reuters uses anti-competitive practices to maintain its subsidiary Westlaw's market dominance, although it failed to show that the bigger rival pursued "sham litigation" against it, a Delaware federal judge ruled Tuesday.
March 29, 2021
Legal research startup ROSS Intelligence can't dismiss copyright claims that it illegally copied huge swaths of Thomson Reuters' Westlaw database to create a competing service, a Delaware federal judge ruled Monday.
March 26, 2021
Westlaw owner Thomson Reuters wants a federal judge to dismiss accusations leveled by startup ROSS Intelligence that the bigger firm is trying to monopolize the legal research business, arguing simply that it's "not an antitrust case."
January 25, 2021
Facing a copyright lawsuit from Westlaw owner Thomson Reuters, legal research startup ROSS Intelligence countersued the bigger rival Monday for allegedly violating federal antitrust laws.