The law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has lost its bid to dismiss four of five counterclaims filed by the legal technology company Xcential Legislative Technologies in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea.
As I reported here in November, Akin Gump sued Xcential in the District of Columbia
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The firm worked with California-based Xcential to demo a software product called “Bill Synthesis” but they’re now locked in a dispute about who originated the idea.
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In a major development in the ‘David v Goliath’ lawsuit over who really invented a piece of bill-drafting software, a US court has mostly denied Akin Gump’s motion to throw …
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[Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Mark Stodder, President of Xcential Legislative Technologies. As I reported here in November, the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has sued Xcential for misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, and other causes of action. This is Stodder’s perspective on the lawsuit. If anyone at Akin
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Every year since 2010, I have compiled a list of my most-popular posts. In some years, there has seemed to be a theme across the most-read posts. But this year, they seem to span the gamut of topics I cover, from analytics to artificial intelligence, from legal ethics to legal research, from new companies starting up to established companies shutting
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