Project Details

01.

Challenge

Products for both client and defendant
Re-review over 40K files tagged responsive by a prior review team
Re-review over 40K files tagged responsive by a prior review team
Validate files responsive only to the infringed application features including files with third party source code
More than 25 file types (images, emails, text, pdfs, json, etc.) including 7 programming languages (Python, C, C++, Java, PHP, Javascript, Angular)

02.

Solution Management

Cross-functional expert team including attorneys, IP experts and tech specialists built a customized workflow and performed the review
Created cohorts based on technology expertise and segregated dataset based on:
- file extensions with high probability of source codes
- programming languages
Assessed code structure and functions, and segregated relevant source code applicable for UI or backend
Deployed IDEs to open files with technical issues programming languages
Assessed codes for use of third-party and open-source code from infringement perspective
Segregated open-source code for videos and marked them as non-responsive
Reviewed files for third-party source code for AEO tag
Identified libraries with external dependencies/algorithms and incorporated without proper licensing or attribution

03.

Outcome

Appropriately tagged 40K+ files
Identified 11.5K files which contained disputed application code
70% reduction of overall responsive universe of documents - identified c. 30k files which were not part of the code in litigation but were related to supporting features of the application
Estimated cost saving of 80% of attorneys’ time and resources
Identified features related to user interface, potentially a part of the infringed code