Case law should be free — let’s free SCOTUS patent cases

Written on August 20, 2008 by nipper in Lawsuits/Laws/Rules
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I am a big fan of public.resource.org’s quest of making government data more accessible.

One of their projects is freeing caselaw…providing “open” copies of caselaw decisions. They have already compiled US, F1, F2 and F3 decisions into free copies. See: http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/.

Doing my part, I recently compiled a list of (most) of the U.S. Supreme Court patent law decisions. With that list in hand, I looked up the corresponding bulk.resource.org links, creating a page with links to copies of all of the cases. Take a look at my handy work: http://inventblog.com/copies-of-supreme-court-patent-cases. Let me know what you think.

Maybe I’ll have to start working on the Fed.Cir. cases next. ;-)

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One Response to Case law should be free — let’s free SCOTUS patent cases
  1. Bob
    August 21, 2008 | 5:37 am

    Helpful. Thanks. I am philosophically opposed to paying Westlaw or Lexis to download decisions, and I hate to charge clients for it. Any mechanisms that make decisions more accessible provide an important public service.