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Allow people to reference more than one nature of suit #14

Open mlissner opened 4 years ago

mlissner commented 4 years ago

Describe the solution you'd like Cases often span multiple natures of suit, but at present only one can be selected. This hampers innovation and research. Allow multiple NOS codes on a docket.

Additional context See #13 for a similar request.

mlissner commented 4 years ago

Also allow additional NOS codes to be added after initial docketing.

speedplane commented 4 years ago

For example, the Oracle v. Google case is marked as a Patent Case, and the case does involve patents, but the major issue is copyright law (whether APIs can be copyrighted).

mlissner commented 4 years ago

Perfect example. There's a lot of academics that are foiled by this too, because they go and download thousands of dockets according to a NOS code only to learn that a large number of them are off topic. Charlotte Alexander at GSU has a good note about this in one of her papers.