Ross Intel Must Face Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw Copyright Lawsuit

Legal research provider Ross Intelligence Inc. failed Monday to convince a federal court in Delaware to throw out a lawsuit brought against it by competitor Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH for allegedly infringing its copyrights by reproducing and creating work based on Thomson Reuters’ content.

Thomson Reuters and subsidiary West Publishing Corp. sued Ross in May 2020, accusing it of using a then-Westlaw licensee to access and copy Westlaw to create a competing product. Ross was alleged to have induced legal support services company LegalEase Solutions LLC to breach its contract with West by illegally reproducing copyrighted content and sharing ...