Open mlissner opened 2 months ago
anseljh
commented
2 months ago Selected cases from all 3 of these bodies are published in a Bloomberg/BNA reporter called U.S.P.Q. (now U.S.P.Q.2d). I can fill people in on the TTAB.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Patents_Quarterly?wprov=sfti1#See_also
mlissner
commented
1 month ago Got an email related to this today:
I am writing to inquire about a specific service that provides specific details on US District court and ITC patent litigation cases. I am specifically interested in obtaining information on:
- Looking for plaintiff and defendant counsel information (which includes all the attorney names, law firm name, and email address [if and when these details are available based on update in the docket])
- Case docket number and names of both the parties
- Patents involved in litigation.
- Any additional relevant case details that would be included in such a subscription.
We are hoping that such details would be shared in form of alerts on daily basis i.e. any cases filed previously but where any defendant counsel is updated today in any case, we'd be notified via alerts tomorrow with all those cases and corresponding info. Could you please let us know if you can provide such specific subscription that would grant access to this data, including any trial periods. If yes, please provide pricing details, and the process.
I asked them how much this was worth to them.
I added a new discussion to think about extracting patent numbers: https://github.com/freelawproject/foresight/discussions/43
Headline
Free Law Project adds [huge-number] of decisions from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and International Trade Commission
What is the Feature?
This would add patent related litigation to our case law database and would keep it up to date with ongoing data collection.
This is a slight divergence from our current practice of collecting almost exclusively 3rd branch content, but we do collect Attorney General decisions now, so it's not crazy.
This could fit into our jurisdiction picker in the "More" tab, where we have Military, Tribal, Historical, and Misc. courts:
What Problem Might it Solve?
This would further round out our collection of data.
Describe a Scenario in Which the Feature Might be Used
One user reports:
For attorneys like this, these decisions could be useful.
Technical Requirements
What would it require that we do technically?
This would require a new scraper for ongoing and historical updates and some minor changes in the UI. It could involve adding new fields to the DB, which would add some complexity.
How hard is it to make, subjectively? Medium. I don't think there are that many cases, and the scrapers shouldn't be that hard to make.
Best guess, how long would it take to make, roughly?
Three weeks.
Existing Systems or Alternatives?
More research is needed here, but so far I know Docket Alarm has this, and I believe you can search the gov't website as well.