Supercharging Patent Lawyers With AI How Silicon Valley's Lex Machina is blending AI and data analytics to radically alter patent litigation - Galt's Gulch

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Supercharging Patent Lawyers With AI How Silicon Valley's Lex Machina is blending AI and data analytics to radically alter patent litigation

Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 9 months ago to Technology

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“There’s been a quiet transition going on in the legal world,” Katz says. And that transition will shake up the legal profession. “Human reasoning, at least some part of it, is going to be replaced by machine-based prediction.” If Lex Machina succeeds, there will eventually be fewer frivolous lawsuits—and maybe fewer lawyers too.

Is the projected impact of AI in legal research really going to be as dramatic as the author implies?

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Posted by khalling 9 years, 9 months ago

There would be fewer frivolous if the Supreme Court would quit screwing up patent law and making the rules of patent laws arbitrary, illogical, and change on a dime. IF no one knows what the law is, they have to go to court to find out . Fail. Statistical analysis has its place, but is only one component of what someone should be looking when picking an attorney to represent them. Compared to baseball I would say most patent litigators go to court once every couple of years. There is not enough "up to bats" for this to be disruptive in fewer lawsuits, fewer losses in court compared to other factors. Great promotion piece and they are certainly welcome to their market.

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  Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 9 months ago
  
  But you've got to admit, particularly as it relates to Trolls, it's going to have an impact. Maybe negative or positive, but an impact nevertheless. I suspect very few cases actually make it into court, much less to trial.
  
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Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 9 months ago

One one hand I think the answer is yes, although I wonder if I'm making the same mistake of extrapolating aerospace technology from the period between WWII and the first moon shot.

I just finished The Second Machine Age, which covers a lot of this; it covers a lot that will already be familiar to anyone working in technology. It says automation will continue to shake up the labor market. I agree. It proposes some socialistic solutions that I'm not sure of. I say I'm not sure b/c I don't have a better solution, but I think one may exist.

My guess is machine-based prediction will replace some human reasoning. Even if that doesn't happen, I think the legal industry is ripe for disruption anyway.

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