With the launch of the Thomson Reuters 2011 Top 100 Global InnovatorSM program, Thomson Reuters has recognized the companies and institutions that lead the world in innovation activity.
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.
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What’s in a word? The Black’s Law Dictionary, 9th 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 9th 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.
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Legal Current chatted with Eric Laughlin, vice president, Corporate Legal Solutions, for a view of what attendees of the upcoming Association for Corporate Counsel (ACC) annual meeting will see from Thomson Reuters. According to Laughlin, this year’s gathering is already being touted as the largest in the association’s history.
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.
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I recently read a great story about Hennelly & Grossfeld, and one of their clients, Fidelity National Title Group (FNTG), and how they are strategically leveraging technology to reduce costs, be more efficient and collaborate and remain competitive.
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.
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Jason Wilson, legal blogger and vice president, Jones McClure Publishing, discusses WestlawNext vs. Westlaw Classic search models in Part II of his interview with Mike Dahn, senior vice president, WestlawNext Marketing and New Initiative Development at Thomson Reuters.
Wilson asks Dahn to respond to questions raised in recent articles and online posts. For instance, they explore whether WestlawNext pricing may discourage some researchers from opening and skimming portions of numerous documents, compared to a user of Westlaw Classic.
Dahn said, “…in Westlaw Classic, each additional search costs more, so we often see researchers limiting the number of content sets they search in, which typically means that cases and statutes will be searched and many secondary sources will be ignored. Since WestlawNext aggregates multiple content sets under a single low search price, researchers should be more likely to browse content beyond cases and statutes – which is exactly what we see in our usage logs. In WestlawNext, secondary source usage as a percentage of total usage is up 50% over the ratios we see in Westlaw Classic. We think that’s a very good thing for researchers.”
Learn more at Rethinck.
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In Part I of this two-part interview, Jason Wilson, legal blogger and vice president, Jones McClure Publishing, asks Mike Dahn, senior vice president, WestlawNext Marketing & New Initiative Development at Thomson Reuters, to discuss common misconceptions about WestlawNext, including “crowdsourcing” as it relates to the WestlawNext search algorithm.
So does Thomson Reuters “crowdsource” for WestlawNext development? Dahn explained, “We don’t actually ask our customers – or make open calls to the public – to work on WestSearch algorithm improvements. I’m not trying to denounce crowdsourcing as a concept. It’s just not what we do with WestSearch.”
Customer usage patterns are integrated into Westsearch, and Dahn explains: “It’s important to keep three things in mind: customer usage patterns are just a feature of our algorithms – they don’t represent the core of the algorithms; because WestlawNext is a full-featured research application, we have a much richer source of usage information than most search engines, including Google; and since usage information has been used in search engines for well over a decade, the science for dealing with popularity issues is well developed.”
Will WestlawNext deliver the most esoteric on-point documents? Is there still more to be added to the discussion about Boolean and Natural Language search?
Learn more at rethinck.
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Today’s law students need fast, easy and convenient online access to law books. Hundreds of the most popular casebooks and study aids from West, Foundation Press and Gilbert are now available for purchase in Online Book format from the West Store. Online Books are digital versions that can be viewed and accessed through desktop computers, laptops and mobile devices.
The West Store’s Online Books – whether purchased or rented – can be accessed and viewed on desktop and laptop computers through a document viewer that allows students to:
For students on the go, online books can be viewed via browsers on almost any mobile device
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In response to the global catastrophic events of the past decade – including the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, 2011 Japan earthquake and nuclear meltdown and cyber-terrorism – The American Bar Association (ABA) Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS), in partnership with Thomson Reuters, announced the launch of a year-long (2011-2012) series of programs dedicated to disaster preparedness and response.
The series will confront the issues of preparedness, risk management, recovery, liability, insurance, claims and litigation. The official launch of the disaster series will be on September 6, 2011, commemorating the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. In addition to several high-profile speakers, the disaster series will include a ten-part series of podcasts and four conferences in Seattle; Charleston, S.C.; New Orleans; and Chicago, featuring legislative, judicial and business leaders to address disaster readiness and response.
In the pilot podcast, “Disaster Response Awareness: What the ABA is Doing,” you’ll hear from ABA President Steve Zack and TIPS Chair-Elect Randy J. Aliment. Listen in to learn from Steve why the ABA selected disaster preparedness as a main goal and which disasters can affect the organization. Randy will speak about his collaboration with Steve and the TIPS initiative. You can also learn more about an essay competition involving law schools and law students.
For more information or to register for the series, check out the ABA TIPS blog or the West LegalEdcenter website. And stay tuned to Legal Current for more coverage of this series including interviews with some of the key presenters.
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Corporate counsel look to law firms for greater efficiencies in supporting their corporate requests. And of course general counsel are also looking for ways to cut costs internally. This American Corporate Counsel article Top Ten Tips for Leveraging Cutting-Edge Legal Research Technology to Control Legal Costs and Drive Client Value, reflects the experiences and insights of Lydia Flocchini, Director, Thomson Reuters gained in her more than 10 years of working directly with law firms on these issues.
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Women are 14 percent more likely than men to select environmentally friendly packaging over non-“green,” more-convenient alternatives, according to a recent study of more than 1,000 adults commissioned by our IP Solutions business.
This finding is part of an intellectual property report released by Thomson Reuters, World IP Today: Convenience vs. Conscience – Food Packaging in the 21st Century, that explores the food packaging industry to identify its trends and drivers.
Key findings from the report include:
Convenience vs. conscience - a tie: In the great “convenience vs. conscience” debate, people are fairly evenly split between environmental conscience and consumer convenience when it comes to making food- and beverage-packaging decisions. The industry is headed in the direction of providing both convenient packaging and conscientious protection of the environment, satisfying both needs rather than making it an either/or decision.
Consumer-facing companies top leader lists: Companies such as Procter & Gamble, Kraft Foods and Mars Inc. are the top B2C (business-to-consumer) filers of design patents in terms of their packaging innovation, while others such as Reynolds, Solo Cup Company and Nestle are the leading consumer product companies filing for protection of packaging-related trademarks. The top B2B (business-to-business) packaging innovators that supply the consumer product companies include Dianippon Printing, Toppan Printing and Yoshino Kogyosho (Yoshino Plastics).
Green labeling “loophole”: While patents mentioning biodegradability, recycling and barrier films are increasing in frequency, a lack of standardization in what constitutes an environmentally friendly package has resulted in ambiguity as to which packages really are “green.” With organizations including the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Sustainable Packaging Coalition and the European Organization for Packaging and the Environment currently working on standards, this issue will likely receive more attention in coming months.
Looking ahead – interactive packaging: Beyond the “green” theme, other key areas of focus showing up in the Thomson Reuters analysis are innovations in tamper-evident packaging and interactive packages that use RFID (radio frequency identification) technology to track food from source to destination.
Learn more by checking out the full news release here.
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The U.S. Constitution is one of the most powerful and impactful documents in existence. It literally touches every American’s life, and has since its creation in 1787. Recently, I had the opportunity to view the document first-hand as part of a new exhibit, “We the People: The First Official Printing of the U.S. Constitution,” sponsored [...]
Earlier this week, we released our 2011 Annual Report in an interactive format available online at thomsonreuters.com. Along with information on the company’s financial performance as well as business unit overviews, this year’s annual report contains a variety of dynamic content including interviews with our new business leaders as well as stories of how we [...]
We’ve got a great episode for you this month, kicking off with our “Chaos in the Courts” segment that, believe it or not, is yet another story about the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas. Since our March podcast, another person has fallen victim to the establishment’s trademark bypass burger.
Then in our “On the Blawgs” [...]
