New Technology Helps Develop Trial Strategy
When patent attorney Michael Sander and his colleagues started noticing that some judges on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) were rejecting more patents than others, Sander built a predictive tool that tells an attorney with a new PTAB case his chances of success, based on an instant, computer analysis of every similar case handled by the same judge, Wired reports.
Interest in the PTAB analytical tool has grown quickly, especially because there’s no competition.
Another example of using technology for trial strategy cited by Wired is the case of three law professors who are developing a tool that’s predicting Supreme Court decisions with about 70 percent accuracy. The professors assume the tool will eventually be put to use for the lower courts, since there’s such a strong need for it.
