Salesforce Buys Hot Deep Learning Startup MetaMind
May 7, 2016

Deep learning is a type of artificial intelligence that many large technology companies — like Facebook, Google, Microsoft,...

Law Firms, Law Schools Focusing on New Data Analysis Tools
May 7, 2016

Stanford Law School and Sullivan & Cromwell team up for FCPA clearinghouse, while McDermott Will & Emery offers corporate services Law schools and law firms are providing new tools to help clients deal with increasing amounts of data. In one case, Stanford Law School and Sullivan & Cromwell recently launched the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Clearinghouse (FCPAC), a public database that aggregates and curates source documents and provides analytics tools related to enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt...

Anxiety: 10 Fascinating New Insights You Should Know
May 6, 2016

Why anxious people are agreeable, the supplement that reduces anxiety, dangers of anxiety drugs, the benefits of optimistic thinking and more… Ten new psychology studies reveal why some people are anxious, how to reduce anxiety and much more. 1. Why anxious people are too agreeable 2. Omega-3 supplementation reduces anxiety 3. Optimistic thinking benefits the anxious brain 4. Being neurotic predicts anxiety 5. Get enough REM sleep 6. Online therapy for anxiety 7. The neurocircuitry...

SCOTX Overturns Appellate Court’s Arbitration Order in El Paso Employment Dispute
May 6, 2016

The Supreme Court of Texas has overturned an order compelling arbitration that was issued by the El Paso Court of Appeals. In Whataburger Restaurants LLC v. Cardwell, No. 14-1019 (February 26, 2016), an El Paso dishwasher, Yvonne Cardwell, signed a pre-employment acknowledgement stating she understood that any work-related or injury disputes with her employer, Whataburger, would be subject to arbitration in Dallas. After becoming injured at work, Cardwell filed a lawsuit against her employer in El Paso. In...

See Into Your Patent Application’s Future With This New Predictive Data Tool
May 6, 2016

There is tremendous variability within the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) in terms of how each of the individual...

Eastern District of Texas Patent Filings Plummet
May 5, 2016

Even as plaintiffs were shattering an all-time record by filing 2,591 new cases in the Eastern District of Texas last year,...

US Patent Litigation Falls to 2011 Levels
May 5, 2016

The number of patent litigation cases in the US dropped dramatically in the first three months of this year, reaching levels...

Is Big Data Taking Us Closer to the Deeper Questions in Artificial Intelligence?
May 5, 2016

What we need to do in artificial intelligence is turn back to psychology. Brute force is great; we're using it in a lot of ways, like speech recognition, license plate recognition, and for categorization, but there are still some things that people do a lot better. We should be studying human beings to understand how they do it better. People are still much better at understanding sentences, paragraphs, books, and discourse where there's connected prose. It's one thing to do a keyword search....

This U.S. Regulator Wants to End Mandatory Arbitration for Consumers
May 5, 2016

Having consumers renounce class action rights has been common since a 2011 Supreme Court ruling. A U.S. consumer watchdog...

7 Tips for Mediating Disputes with Insurance Coverage Issues
May 5, 2016

Insurance coverage disputes can be the subject of their own lawsuits. But more often – to the surprise of an unsuspecting...