It had to happen.
Both parties were looking equally disingenious as this case lurched forward over the years and to a casual observer like House of Butter nither one gained much sympathy.
TR Westlaw had the money to grind ROSS into the ground so they were always going to come out on top.
Now they have!
Law Sites writes (let’s hope) the final chapter in this little saga
A federal judge in Delaware has dismissed the claim by now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence that Thomson Reuters violated federal antitrust law by unlawfully tying its search tool to its public law database in order to maintain its dominance in the overall market for legal search platforms.
The ruling brings an end to ROSS’s counterclaims against Thomson Reuters (TR) in the continuing federal court litigation between the two parties. Still to be decided in the case are TR’s claims that ROSS violated its copyrights by unlawfully copying TR’s legal materials in order to use them to train its own AI-driven legal research platform.
Those claims were scheduled to have gone to trial last month, but the trial was continued at the eleventh hour, leaving the copyright issues yet to be decided.
After TR first brought its copyright lawsuit against ROSS in May 2020, ROSS filed a counterclaim asserting that TR was violating federal antitrust law by maintaining monopolistic and anticompetitive control over the legal research market.
In 2022, Judge Leonard P. Stark — who previously presided over the case as a U.S. district judge in Delaware before becoming a judge of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit– dismissed a portion of ROSS’s antitrust claims, but he allowed the tying claim to move forward.
That claim alleged that TR violated Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act by unlawfully tying its search tool to its public law database in order to maintain its dominance in the overall market for legal search platforms.
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