Legal Tech at the heart of intellectual property
Intellectual property is an important subject at Seraphin.legal. It didn't take long for us to look for ways to improve our innovative technology offering for IP professionals. The story began in 2017 with www.aboutinnovation.com. It continues in 2018 with www.caseip.com.
If the idea has been maturing for a long time in the head of CEO Thomas Saint-Aubin, the first steps towards the design of an IP case law search engine appeared during the PI Legal Tech day day organised on 25 January at 12 rue Notre-Dame des Victoires, the headquarters of Seraphin.legal. In accordance with the methodology of the Legal Tech Studiomethodology, before launching the developments, we collected the users' needs. A workshop of reflection and co-design on an IP case law platform was thus proposed to the participants.
A few months later, we are pleased to be able to present, in beta version, the fruit of these exchanges.
CaseIP in Beta version*.
*The beta version is the first version of the interface. Users or "beta testers" send feedback and suggestions for improvement to the developers.
We began our work thanks to the opening up for re-use of decisions from the collections of the INPI's legal documentation centre. This collection contains most of the national judicial decisions (TGI, CA, Cass) in the field of trademarks, patents and designs. It also includes the decisions of the Director General of the INPI taken in the context of the opposition procedure.
With the help of our partner Numelex, which specialises in refining and transforming legal and judicial documents into usable digital data, we reprocessed the entire collection and enhanced the data that could be extracted from the case law. Thus on CaseIPusers can search by date, type of jurisdiction, parties (plaintiff and/or defendant) and the lawyers representing them, by articles of the code or laws cited in the decision, etc. They can also quickly find out which party is the defendant and which is the defendant. They can also find out very quickly which party has been convicted in a case, for what amount and the reason for this conviction.
We have also extracted all the asset numbers cited in a decision. Today the user can search by patent or trademark number. We are currently working on cross-referencing and enriching the extracted data with IP data. Eventually, the user will be able to view all the data related to an asset as well as its legal history.
A specialised database
The opening up of court decisions to the public has led to the emergence of new services. Legal Tech has seized on the subject and has changed the world of legal publishing. The attractiveness and ambition of these research and statistical tools made us want to embark on this adventure.
An observation from our co-design workshops: professionals no longer wish to subscribe to a set of resources that do not correspond to their core business. We therefore decided to act on a specific vertical of the law. CaseIP is not a generalist database. It is specialised for IP litigation experts: it only contains decisions in the field of intellectual property and targets professionals.
Our ambition is to provide you with a simple, quick and visual way to search for IP-related case law. We want to make CaseIP your new research and decision-making tool. We currently cover the French jurisdictions and the European offices. We hope very soon to make decisions from all over the world available to users.
