‘Crazy New Ideas’ is a recent essay by Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator. An accelerator that has backed crazy idea startups that include AIRBNB; letting strangers stay in your home on air mattresses. Unconventional solutions such as STRIPE; 2 lads from Ireland who have revolutionised taking card payments online with an enterprise
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The UKIPO gets it! Digitisation, APIs Transformation to be best in the world
LawPanel were thrilled to be told that as part of the UKIPOs ambitious transformation and digitisation, their services would be accessible by API. So enabling direct, secure transfer of information from LawPanel to the UKIPO. Removing any need for paper, online forms or other friction in the process that adds time, cost and risk of
Beyond docketing
Many firms and in-house counsel think of ‘IP software’ and ‘docketing database’ as interchangeable terms. Which is understandable as software tools for IP have only ever kept track of registry deadlines. With some add ons to assist with filing and checking local records in the docketing database against official ones at the registry.
With Covid
New WordPress plugin for online internationtrademark services
During 2020 we’ve been working on a lot of new trademark functionality, covering search, filing, watching, and record management. With a lot of interest from firms wanting to offer trademark services online, particularly filing and fee quotations.
As well as adding this functionality to a site using LawPanel’s APIs we have an even easier and
Lawyers, AI and Keyser Söze
‘And like that … he’s gone …he became a myth, a spook story.’
‘The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.’
These great lines from the film ‘The Usual Suspects” came to mind during a recent legal AI panel discussion. The panel were well informed and discussing the provocative
The Pizza problem, Machine learning and comprehensive trademark clearance searching
Thoughts on why current machine learning alone cannot fully automate comprehensive trademark clearance searching.
A number of people and firms have applied machine learning techniques to the task of automating word mark clearance searching.
And others, including the global head of R&D at one of the leading law firms, have suggested that it’s a valuable
Trying LawPanel is painless
As the number of firms trying LawPanel grows daily we thought we’d give a quick overview of what this looks like.
We showcase LawPanel at the MDR Lab demo day
Last week our time on the MDR Lab program culminated with us presenting the LawPanel platform to an audience of lawyers, journalists, and industry experts. It was great to have so much positive feedback and show off what LawPanel can do.
It was also exciting to see demos from the rest of our cohort:
Why the daily life of trademark attorneys is about to get a lot better
For the last few months, we’ve been working with the trademark practice at Mischon de Reya, getting ready to launch the new version of LawPanel. It’s currently in private beta, and we’re very excited about releasing it to the public later this Summer.
It’s been a real privilege to have so much feedback
How technology can help women in the law
Historically speaking, being a woman in the legal sector has not been easy. In fact, it’s only a little over a 100 years since women have had access to the profession at all.
Due to this, it comes as no surprise that the top ranks in today’s legal sector are dominated by men.
AI , people, and the superficiality of rationality
At LawPanel we have an interest in AI: both in what it can usefully do now in the applications we build, but also in what it might enable in the future.
There’s been a couple of interesting articles in recent months on the ‘black box’ nature of AI. The New York Times opined that
Inside Mishcon de Reya’s MDR Lab
We’ve had a great two weeks at Mishcon de Reya’s MDR Lab, and we wanted to share a little of what we’ve been up to so far.
Of course, there’s been an opportunity to play with some hi-tech gadgets, including using a 3D printer to bring the LawPanel logo to life.
LawPanel joins Mischon de Reya’s MDR Lab
We’re excited to be taking part in this year’s MDR Lab, run by Mishcon de Reya. Each year, the MDR Lab chooses a select number of legal-tech companies to join the programme, with the aim of helping them better understand the evolving needs of the legal sector.
With one of the largest IP groups
What is the dark web and why does it matter to IP professionals?
What is the internet? It sounds like an easy question. After all, we all use it everyday. In fact, most of us spend an appreciable fraction of our lives using it.
But like a lot of the technology modern life depends on, the fact is that few of us can explain how it works.