February 1, 2021 at 2:42 PM
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One hundred forty-five years after publishing his first regional case law reporter, 139 years after formally incorporating West Publishing Company, 124 years after launching the classification scheme that would become the key number system, and 99 years after his death, John B. West and his legacy are now revived as the topic of litigation in federal court in Delaware.
That is where the company he founded, now a business owned and subsumed by Thomson Reuters, filed suit last May against the legal research startup ROSS Intelligence, alleging that ROSS stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research product.