Monday, 27 October 2008

Legal Publisher's Patents

US patent 1700 headerImage via WikipediaI've been doing some research regarding my new venture and I've spent most of my weekend doing investigating and filing patents.

While doing so my mind started wandering somewhat (as it usually does!) , so I started doing searches on Someone Reuters and LexisWhatsis on the US Patents Database. They predictably have a few between them, I thought I'd share a couple of them with you. First up is one registered under Lexis Nexis (Dayton, OH), interestingly it has the aforementioned James M. Peck's name in it! The patent number is 6,502,081 is you want to find it and it involves the "System and method for classifying legal concepts using legal topic scheme ", which obviously is the patent for their taxonomy system. Very interesting read and they set out their case for why it's different to other systems well.

The second patent is 7,085,755 registered with Thomson Global Resources AG (some Swiss company - is this a Thomson Reuters tax dodge?), the "inventors" however seem to be all from Minnesota. This "Electronic document repository management and access system" looks like it could be the patent for the much vaunted Novus. There are lots of mentions of things such as Table of Contents (TOC), Alerts and collections.
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