I’ve written any number of times about the rapid growth in recent years in the number of legal technology startups. A new report out today from Thomson Reuters documents a related aspect of that — the rapid rise in the global number of patents relating to legal services technology.

The number of patents filed within the category “legal services and handling legal documents” has risen 484 percent in the last five years, according to the analysis by Thomson Reuters of data from the World Intellectual Property Organisation.

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