ProView launches shortly in Australia, following its successful introduction in the US, UK and Canada. ProView has features including full-text Boolean search, and updating of content as new editions while maintaining customer-created notes and annotations.

In addition, the upcoming update of ProView will add more exciting features.

Dan Bennett, vice president, New Product Development, discusses what’s new with Thomson Reuters ProView

Westlaw Drafting Assistant – Transactional is the first comprehensive set of automated tools and content to help attorneys prepare transactional documents with greater efficiency and accuracy.

Users can quickly and easily find a document or template to use as a starting point – whether an existing internal document or using the included database of sample documents, organized by practice area and jurisdiction. Powerful proofreading tools ensure accuracy across all content, including defined terms, numeration, punctuation, and referenced documents. Issues such as non-conforming phrases are flagged for easy review. An automatically generated document outline eases document navigation. Plus, direct integration with Westlaw enables users to find applicable forms and laws without leaving their word processor.

Westlaw Drafting Assistant – Transactional is the latest addition to the comprehensive products and content Thomson Reuters Westlaw provides for transactional attorneys, including Westlaw Form Builder, Form Finder on WestlawNext, and Westlaw Model Documents. Stop by our booth at LegalTech NY and take a look.

Nixon Peabody said the move was in response to client demand to reduce the risks, burdens and costs of e-discovery review.

Pangea3 was recently voted “Best Legal Process Outsourcing Provider” in the 2011 New York Law Journal Reader Rankings.

MatterSphere integrates with Elite 3E, Elite Enterprise and many other financial management and document management platforms, and is embedded in the Microsoft Office environment to unite operations and promote collaboration across the enterprise and with a firm’s clients. It is also accessible from iPad or smartphone.

Patrick Hurley, senior director of Operations, Elite, talks about how MatterSphere benefits attorneys and firms.

Mark Craddock, Director of Sales for Elite, comments on today’s U.S. launch of MatterSphere.

Whether conducting a spot check of court rules with ProView, verifying a case on an iPhone, or consulting secondary source materials related to a case on an iPad, technology continues to offer research and management time savings. And these law librarians embrace new technology to enable education, research and efficiency for the students and the attorneys they support.

“Intellectual property is the bridge that connects innovation with economic growth,” said David Brown, president of the IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters. “We’ve taken on this research as a means of identifying the point where innovation and creativity meet marketability, thus setting the stage for sustained economic development. By closely examining a wide variety of metrics, we can see China is clearly on that path, but there are significant milestones yet to be attained.” 

Among the key findings detailed in the free Thomson Reuters China reports on patent and trademark trends: 

• China Now Leads World in Patent Filings: Published patent applications in China increased by 16.7 percent between 2006 and 2010; and this year’s patent activity secures China’s status as the world leader in patent application volume, as previously predicted by Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters projects that China will publish 493,000 patent applications annually by 2015.
   
• Trademark Applications Surge: Since 2000, the number of trademarks registered in China has increased by more than 450 percent, far outpacing other nations, despite widespread counterfeiting and infringement.
   
• Growing Influence in Scientific Literature: Over the last five years, there has been an 80 percent increase in Chinese scientific literature annual output, making China second in the world in published scientific papers. The United States, which currently has the highest overall output, grew by five percent. 
   
• Slow to Expand Globally: Chinese organizations are not protecting their inventions by filing patents globally at the same level as other innovation-minded countries. Currently, only 5.6 percent of China’s inventions are protected with global patent filings abroad, far less than the United States (48.8 percent) and Japan (38.7 percent). 
   
• China’s Corporate Innovation Lags: According to the Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators analysis, the most innovative companies in the world are based in the United States (40 percent), Europe (29 percent) and Japan (27 percent).
   
• Global Brands Capitalize on Chinese Consumerism: In an economic environment that is expected to reach $4.3 trillion USD in retail spending by 2015, leading multinational companies have been among the top 20 trademark filers in China from 1976 through 2011.   

The research findings are available in two new reports from the IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters.  Invented in China assesses total patent volumes and highlights growing areas of innovation activity in China.  Special Report: Trademarks in China tracks trends in trademark activity in China over the last 20 years and analyzes trademark activities of the world’s leading brands.

The 100 global innovator companies are geographically dispersed, with representation from the U.S., Asia, and Europe. The methodology for choosing the global innovators is based on four principle criteria: patent approval success rate, global reach of patent portfolio, patent influence in terms of citations and overall patent volume. 

David Brown, president of the IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters defines innovation as “a means of growth and prosperity for companies and nations seeking to overcome sluggish economies and achieve competitive advantage.” 

The launch of the program has received much deserved attention from various media sources around the country, including the Economist, The New York Times, and USA Today, to name just a few. 

To learn more about the program, tune in to the podcast below where we speak with Bob Stembridge, Intellectual Property analyst at Thomson Reuters to learn more about the program.

]]> http://legalcurrent.com/2011/12/12/thomson-reuters-names-world%e2%80%99s-100-most-innovative-companies/feed/ 0 http://legalcurrent.com/2011/12/08/android-app-for-the-black%e2%80%99s-law-dictionary-now-available/ http://legalcurrent.com/2011/12/08/android-app-for-the-black%e2%80%99s-law-dictionary-now-available/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:15:31 +0000 Gretchen DeSutter http://legalcurrent.com/?p=12544 What’s in a word? The Black’s Law Dictionary, 9^th edition from Thomson Reuters can provide both definition and pronunciation through a new Android App. When the word of the day isn’t a word you know, Black’s mobile applications is ready to find that content on your Android. 

Black’s is available as an Android App and also through the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

“The Apple App for The Black’s Law Dictionary 9^th edition is in the top 10 highest grossing reference apps on iTunes, which means touch-of-the finger legal reference tools are essential,” said Chris Parton, vice president, Academic, Thomson Reuters. ”Android continues to be the largest mobile operating system, and expanding to the Android platform was a logical step for our mobile plan.”

Information on the Android App for The Black’s Law Dictionary is available at www.blackslawdictionary.com.

Note: Android is a trademark of Google Inc. and Apple, the Apple logo, iPod, iPod touch, iPad and iTunes are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. iPhone is a trademark of Apple Inc. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc.

Earlier this month, Laughlin hosted Former ACC President Fred Krebbs at the Thomson Reuters Eagan, Minnesota, campus for meetings and an employee town hall event. Krebbs also spoke to Legal Current in this short video interview.  

Hennelly & Grossfeld partners Susan Clary and Tom Case use WestlawNext as a cost savings tool, as well as a differentiator. And according to the findings of a 2011 Client Advisory law firms will need to differentiate themselves based on quality, efficiency, or cost in order to gain market share, keep their existing business, or win new business. 

Fidelity National Title Group also uses WestlawNext and looks to partner with firms that do the same. Jennifer Nicolitz, law librarian with FNTG, uses it every day and recommends that outside counsel use it as well to control legal costs and drive results in this more challenging economic climate. 

“We thought that [this research technology] would be a good fit for our legal department because we have a lot of cost-saving initiatives that are the focus of the company right now. And, given the current state of the economy, one of those [initiatives] is creating synergies and completing work faster so that our attorneys are more efficient. WestlawNext helped us do that.” 

Read the article to learn more about how Hennelly & Grossfeld and FNTG partner to drive efficiencies and cost savings in the new economy through technology.