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By bfwebster on Mar 5, 2011 in Lawsuits, Main, Management, Technology | 0 Comments
John Markoff in the New York Times has a detailed article on the emergence of software tools to help in the analysis of electronic documents (and, one could easily presume, scanned and OCR’d physical documents) in litigation: Now, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, “e-discovery” software can analyze documents in a fraction of the time [...]
By bfwebster on Mar 1, 2011 in Lawsuits, Main, Risk management, Technology | 0 Comments
OK, just last week I wrote a post on a report out of UCSD regarding difficulties in erasing data from solid-state disks (SSDs). But now out of Australia comes a somewhat contradictory report that some SSDs actually erase ‘slack’ (unused) space themselves without any user or system intervention — and, furthermore, that they can do [...]
By bfwebster on Feb 24, 2011 in Lawsuits, Main, Risk management, Technology | 1 Comment
E-discovery — the recovery, analysis, and production of evidence stored in digital form on various media — has become a major issue in litigation because of how much data simple devices can hold and the resulting duplication and multiplication of documents, files, and other digital types of evidence. Because of the risks and costs of [...]
By bfwebster on Feb 3, 2010 in Lawsuits, Main, Uncategorized | 59 Comments
[Instalanche™ in progress, and I had no clue until I started getting e-mails about the post. I've gotten more hits today on this web site than I've had here in the past 12 months combined. Ah, the power of Instapundit -- thanks, Glenn! Thanks also to Elie Mystal over at Above The Law for the [...]
By bfwebster on Jul 9, 2009 in Lawsuits, Main, Patents | 0 Comments
US District Court Judge Andrew Gilford (Central District of California) granted a summary judgment motion (PDF, 47KB) in DealerTrack v. Huber et al., finding DealerTrack’s patent (US 7,181,427) — for an automated credit application processing system — invalid due to the recent In re Bilski court decision that requires a patent to either involve “transformation” [...]