Answers for Searching

The Fundamental Shift 2

Jan 31, 2020 8:15:00 AM / by Curtis Wadsworth, Founder, CEO posted in Insider, Patent Law, lawyer, Natural Language Processing, AI, Legal Tech, ALSP

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Last week we discussed the emergence of alternative legal service providers and their impact on law firms in the years since the 2008 economic downturn. Firms and lawyers who have succeeded in this time period, particularly in non-litigation, transactional and patent law practices have found ways to work within the framework of their corporate clients. It makes sense to look at trends in the legal market from the perspective of general counsel, which according to ALM Intelligence:

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The Fundamental Shift

Jan 24, 2020 11:29:13 AM / by Curtis Wadsworth, Founder, CEO posted in Patent Law, lawyer, Legal Tech, ALSP

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If you haven’t heard, the 2020 Report on the State of the Legal Market published by The Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown University Law Center and Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, states that “Fundamental Shifts Are Disrupting the Legal Market.” It’s the title, as a matter of fact, and every legal publication in existence has published an article about the report with effectively the same title.

The "fundamental shift"...

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Data in Depth

Dec 13, 2019 12:22:49 PM / by Curtis Wadsworth, Founder, CEO posted in Patent Law, Natural Language Processing, AI, Legal Tech, Machine Learning

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AI is everywhere. It’s telling you what to buy, who to connect with, what you’re looking for when you enter a search query, and what to watch on TV. Many of these AI models, like Netflix, compare the shows you watched and your user preferences to the shows other users with similar preferences have watched to guess what shows you’ll like.

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DorothyAI Gift Giving Guide:

Dec 6, 2019 8:15:00 AM / by Curtis Wadsworth, Founder, CEO posted in Patent Law, lawyer

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Tis’ the season for gift giving!

Don't end up like Mr. Shirley!  Reward your favorite patent attorney with a gift from DorothyAI's gift giving guide.  

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Just Claim Complex

Nov 23, 2019 1:00:50 PM / by Curtis Wadsworth, Founder, CEO posted in Patent Law, AI, Legal Tech, Machine Learning, Extreme Problem Solving

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If you’ve talked to me recently, I likely told you about our efforts to build the ultimate Freedom-To-Operate (FTO) search engine, Dorothy FREEDOMTM (pronounced Braveheart style, obviously).

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Introducing DiversiSEARCH

Nov 15, 2019 10:31:32 AM / by Curtis Wadsworth, Founder, CEO posted in Patent Law, Natural Language Processing, AI, Legal Tech, Creative Solutions, Extreme Problem Solving

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This week we are pushing a revolutionary update that will improve the results returned by Dorothy across technologies. The update includes a number of improvements including better relevancy scoring and reduced redundancy. By far, the biggest improvement is the introduction of DiversiSEARCHTM technology to the platform.

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Exploring Relevancy 2: Live Free, Search Hard

Nov 8, 2019 11:05:35 AM / by Curtis Wadsworth, Founder, CEO posted in Patent Law, Natural Language Processing, Legal Tech, Machine Learning, Creative Solutions, Extreme Problem Solving

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Last week we discussed relevance and the advantages that NLP based search engines have compared to their keyword searching counterparts. Because NLP understands the elements of a search query in context, NLP based engines, like Dorothy, have a clear advantage over keyword based search engines. We used relatively simple examples to illustrate this point. But, there’s more.

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Exploring Relevancy

Nov 3, 2019 9:07:39 AM / by Curtis Wadsworth, Founder, CEO posted in Patent Law, Natural Language Processing, AI, Legal Tech, Extreme Problem Solving, Startup

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The single most important determinant of whether a search was successful is whether the documents returned by the search engine are relevant to the user. As you might imagine, relevancy is a daily discussion at DorothyAI, since we want to have happy customers who view our returned results as being highly relevant.

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Coopetition

Oct 27, 2019 11:18:21 AM / by Curtis Wadsworth, Founder, CEO posted in Patent Law, lawyer, Legal Tech, Creative Solutions, Startup

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If you are into patent tech, the Gaylord National Resort convention center was the place to be last week. Most of the extremely small number of patent tech startups in the world were represented at the AIPLA (American Intellectual Property Law Association) national meeting, all in the 30 foot section of the convention center, “Startup Alley.”

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Duplicity

Oct 19, 2019 10:53:01 AM / by Curtis Wadsworth, Founder, CEO posted in Patent Law, lawyer, Legal Tech, Creative Solutions, Extreme Problem Solving, Startup

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Two-thirds of the almost 150 patent lawyers and agents we talked to over the last year, describe duplicates in the returned results as a major problem with current search tools. We have a plan for removing duplicates that appears to be working pretty well in testing. The best part is that we can use what we learned finding duplicates to add even more value platform. We’ll talk about our solution in a future post.

At first multiple Shia LaBeouf's was fun...

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