The document discusses the development of IRACognizer software. It begins by explaining the IRAC method used in legal reasoning and provides an example. It then discusses the business model, which would offer both free and paid versions. The data sources would include legal documents from PACER, CAFC, and the USPTO. The software would use techniques like text processing, computer vision, and a reasoning engine. Development would focus on claim construction search and an iOS prototype. It concludes by discussing next steps like research on cognitive engines and an MVP.

1. IRACognizer
Jason Lee
2015-10-07

2. Topics
• Legal Reasoning
• Business Model
• Data Source
• Software Development

3. Legal Reasoning
• How lawyers think?—> IRAC (Issue, Rule, Analysis, and
Conclusion) forms the fundamental building blocks of legal
analysis.
• ISSUE: What facts and circumstances brought these
parties to court?
• RULE: What is the governing law for the issue?
• ANALYSIS: Does the rule apply to these unique facts?
• CONCLUSION: How does the court's holding modify the
rule of law?

4. IRAC example
• Facts:
• An old man who is very ill and near death makes an
oral contract with his nephew. The terms of the contract
are that the uncle will immediately give his nephew all
of his life savings - $100,000 - in return for the
nephew's promise to provide food and shelter for the
old man until the man dies. The nephew takes the
money and supports the old man at a cost of $10,000 a
year. The old man lives longer than expected and is
still alive after fifteen years, at which point the nephew
cuts the old man off without further support.

5. • Issue:
• Is an oral contract valid after fifteen years?
• Rule:
• A contract must be in writing if it is not possible to perform the
contract within one year. - Statute of Frauds
• Analysis:
• The Statute of Frauds does not state that the contract must be
performed within one year. It only states that it must be
possible to complete the contract within a year. Since a very
ill, old man could have died within one year, it is possible that
the contract could have been completed.

6. • Conclusion:
• The Statute of Frauds probably does not apply
in these circumstances, and the oral contract is
not invalid even though it was not completed
within one year.

8. • IRACognizer is reverse engineering the concept
of “Code is Law” —> Law as executable code
• Code is Law (Source Code = Legal Code)

9. Business Model
• Dual models
• free for those who could not afford
• justice is too expensive and/or too late
• charge those who can afford
• referencing concept in
• Open Source / GPL / LGPL
• dual-licensing as a business model
• Creative Commons
• Public Patent v. Private Patent
• my own thesis in law school (2004)

11. Data Source
• PACER
• CAFC
• US PTO
• PTAB
• published patent applications & granted patents
• US ITC
• File format:
• HTML (web page)
• PDF
• some would need extra OCR

15. • Starting point: patent litigation
• Why
• high stake for high-tech industries
• broader scope for value creation in IP lifecycle
• a debugger engine for patent prosecution

16. ted patent damages awards in the United States between 2005 and

18. Software Development
• Data extraction
• Text Processing + Computer Vision
• Reasoning engine
• To know how Watson “thinks” as a starting
point
• A.I. or I.A. (Intelligence Amplification)

21. • About Dentons
• world’s largest law firm
• 3,000+ lawyers and professionals in more than 80 locations spanning
50-plus countries
• a legacy of legal experience that dates back to 1742
• About NextLaw Labs
• NextLaw Labs is a business accelerator focused on investing in,
developing and deploying new technologies to transform the practice
of law.

22. • My planned software stacks
• Server side
• Python (for implementing algorithm)
• Solr (for facet search)
• Plone (as Content Management System)
• MySQL (rational db for basic search)
• pdf2htmlEX (a precise PDF to HTML converter)
• SlimerJS (web scrapping)
• FineReader (for OCR processing of PDF files)

23. • Client side
• iOS first, Android later
• Cordova (building native mobile apps using HTML, CSS & Javascript)
• Xcode & iTunes Connect (for deployment to App Store)
• Cloud
• IBM SoftLayer (up to USD 10,000 / month for one year)
• IBM Global Entrepreneur (Bluemix, Watson, etc., up to USD 10,000 /
month for one year)
• Microsoft Azure (BizSpark Plus, up to USD 10,000 / month for one
year)

24. • Next step (R&D)
• Research
• cognitive engine
• NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit)
• Stanford NLP Group
• CodeX papers
• Development —> MVP (minimal viable product)
• Claim Construction Search
• fetching data
• parsing data
• iOS app prototype on iPad Pro

25. • Claim construction is a way of describing how the
Court interprets a claim, what it means, how
broad it is, etc.
• In a patent or patent application, the claims
define, in technical terms, the scope of the
protection conferred by a patent, or the protection
sought in a patent application.

34. Q & A

35. • Reference
• IRAC Examples, http://www.lawnerds.com/guide/irac.html
• http://i.ytimg.com/vi/qNW31cLKcLU/maxresdefault.jpg
• Ranking of the largest adjucated patent damages awards in
the United States between 2005 and 2012 (in million U.S.
dollars), http://www.statista.com/statistics/257208/ranking-
of-the-largest-patent-damages-awards-in-the-us/
• IP lifecycle,
http://www.techinsights.com/design/img/content/lifecycle.pn
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• http://www.rossintelligence.com