Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Consolidated Source for IP Litigation
Just found this article about Stanford Law School launching a full scale online database that stores information about and tracks all IP litigation in real-time, as it occurs within the US. The most important and interesting thing I found in the article was the stated purpose for it: "This publicly available, online research tool will enable scholars, policymakers, lawyers, judges, and journalists to review real time-date about IP leal disputes that have been filed across the country, and ultimately to analyze the efficacy of the system that regulates patents, copyrights, trademarks, antitrust, and trade secrets." The italics are mine, but I think that this part of the sentence is huge. It basically means that there will now be a go to source for anyone willing to track this type of information, and hopefully it will finally show that the system that is currently in place, no longer makes sense. Hopefully having all this raw data in one place will convince someone with power. Or it could be used by scholars to convince people. But having all this information easily accessible, for the first time, could change the way scholars and hopefully even policymakers approach and understand the field.
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