Judge Bibas issued his ruling on ROSS Intelligence’s request for a filtration hearing. (For background, visit our prior analysis.) Although Judge Bibas didn’t grant the motion, he did allow ROSS Intelligence the opportunity to “submit a list of all headnotes it believes are verbatim quotations, or vary trivially from verbatim quotations, of judicial opinions by…

Thomson Reuters filed its brief arguing against ROSS Intelligence’s request that Judge Bibas conduct a pretrial filtration hearing to determine the (lack of) copyrightability of Westlaw’s headnotes and topics that it creates for legal decisions of the courts. In its brief, Thomson Reuters argues that no filtration hearing has ever occurred in the Third Circuit…