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VOLUME 11 ISSN 2456-9704 ______APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL investigate as the investigation of TO LEGAL "intelligent agents": any gadget that sees its condition and takes activities that boost its risk of effectively accomplishing its By Aarti Dhillon & Nishant Mishra objectives. 1 More in detail, Kaplan and From University of Petroleum and Energy Haenlein characterize AI as "a system's Studies, Dehradun capacity to effectively decipher outside data, to gain from such data, and to utilize those I to accomplish explicit objectives INTRODUCTION and undertakings through adaptable adjustment". 2 The digitalization exponential of the world has prompted the use of innovation to each Casually, the expression "artificial circle of human life and tries with the intelligence" is connected when a machine being no exemption. Law and artificial copies "psychological" capacities that intelligence have a significant history humans connect with other human , implanted in branches of knowledge such as for example, "learning" and "problem- legal informatics, legal data, technological solving". 3 The extent of AI is debated: as law and other comparable classification. The machines turn out to be progressively capacity/handling of has gained proficient, undertakings considered as such a great amount of unmistakable quality requiring "intelligence" are frequently for a large group of conspicuous expelled from the definition, a wonder among which is the privilege of security and known as the AI impact, prompting the information assurance. In this manner, the witticism in Tesler's Theorem, "AI is law assumes a central job in the whatever hasn't been done yet."4 preparing/capacity of information making it unavoidable for to think about In the twenty-first century, AI techniques same. Due to the dynamic nature of AI with have encountered a resurgence following which legal informatics is concerned, it is simultaneous advances in computer control, vital that lawyers keep tuned in to both legal and AI progressions to guarantee 1 Poole, Mackworth& Goebel 1998, p. 1, which development in the field of legal provides the version that is used in this article. Note informatics. that they use the term "computational intelligence" as a synonym for . Russell &Norvig (2003) (who prefer the term "rational II agent") and write "The whole-agent view is now ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE widely accepted in the field" (Russell &Norvig 2003, In computer science, Artificial intelligence p. 55). Nilsson 1998. Legg &Hutter 2007. (AI), some of the time called machine 2 Kaplan Andreas; Michael Haenlein (2018) Siri, Siri intelligence, is intelligence exhibited by in my Hand, who's the Fairest in the Land? On the Interpretations, Illustrations and Implications of machines, rather than the regular Artificial Intelligence, Business Horizons, 62(1) intelligence shown by humans and different 3 Russell &Norvig 2009, p. 2 animals. Computer science characterizes AI 4 Maloof, Mark. "Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction, p. 37" ______10 www.supremoamicus.org

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VOLUME 11 ISSN 2456-9704 ______a lot of data, and hypothetical expert attorney on an individual for comprehension; and AI techniques have every customer. 8 turned into a fundamental piece of the innovation business, solving many testing Be that as it may, to work all the more problems in computer science, programming proficiently, parts of these administrations building and research related to operations will move consecutively from: of the same.5  bespoke to  standardized, III  systematized, LEGAL INFORMATICS  packaged, and The American Library Association  commoditized9 characterizes informatics as "the Moving to start with one phase then onto the investigation of the structure and next will require grasping distinctive of information, and in addition, the innovations and learning systems.10 utilization of innovation to the association, stockpiling recovery, and scattering of IV information." Legal informatics in this SOURCES OF LAW ON LEGAL manner pertains to the use of informatics INFORMATICS inside the setting of the legal condition and In each part of the law, there exist sources in that capacity includes law-related from which the pertinent principles of law organizations (e.g., law offices, courts, and are inferred. Such sources can be compared law schools) and clients of information and to streams from which the appropriate information advances inside these standards in each part of the law are 6 organizations. Legal informatics has brought. The sources of law can, by and additionally been characterized as the large, be characterized into primary and hypothesis and routine with regards to secondary sources.11 computable law, i.e., of participation/advantageous interaction among humans and machines in legal 7 problem-solving. Advances in technology 8 Richard Susskind, From Bespoke to Commodity, and legal informatics have prompted new LEGAL TECH. J., 2006, at 4, 4–7. "Archived copy". models for the conveyance of legal Archived from the original on 2011-01-29. Retrieved administrations. Legal administrations have 2011-01-27. 9 generally been a "bespoke" item made by an Richard Susskind, From Bespoke to Commodity, LEGAL TECH. J., 2006, at 4, 4–7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-01-29. Retrieved 2011-01-27. 5 Russell &Norvig 2003, p. 28; Kurzweil 2005, p. 10 Richard Susskind, From Bespoke to Commodity, 26 ; NRC 1999, pp. 216–222 LEGAL TECH. J., 2006, at 4, 4–7. "Archived copy". 6Erdelez and O'Hare (1997) Archived from the original on 2011-01-29. Retrieved 7 Giovanni Sattor and Enrico Franchesconi, Legal 2011-01-27. Informatics and Legal Concepts. Available at: 11 For a general discussion of the sources of law, See: http://eurovoc.europa.eu/drupal/sites/all/files/EuroVo Clinch, Peter. Legal Information: What It Is And cConference_Opening_Speech_by_GSarto.pdf Where To Find It. London: Europa Publications, 26/02/2017 at 3:17pm. 2000. ______11 www.supremoamicus.org

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VOLUME 11 ISSN 2456-9704 ______In the field of legal informatics, the primary decision making, particularly models of sources of law are gotten from national , argumentation, have added to learning international treaties, for example, the portrayal and thinking; models of social international settlements on security, data association dependent on standards have protection and E-trade within the EU and added to multi-operator systems; dissuading choices of the courts on IT/data protection legal cases has added to case-based thinking; related issues. The secondary sources of the and the need to store and recover a lot of law on legal informatics incorporate printed data has brought about commitments international journals on IT law/legal to applied information recovery and informatics, reading material and articles intelligent databases. written by educated and prepared writers in the field. Formal models of legal texts and legal thinking have been utilized in AI and Law to Within the EU, the grundnorm/the most elucidate issues, to give a progressively essential and primary sources of the law on exact comprehension and to give a premise legal informatics is the Treaty on the to usage. An assortment of formalisms has Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) been utilized, including propositional and which accommodates the right to data predicate calculi; worldly and non- protection and furthermore enables the EU monotonic logics; and state transition charts. parliament to make laws for the protection Prakken and Sartor 13 give a detailed and of the right to data protection. 12 Now and authoritative audit of the utilization of logic again, a portion of these texts is utilized by and argumentation in AI and Law and have the court to support its decision while a a phenomenal arrangement of references. portion of the researchers is additionally invited as amicus curiae to illuminate knotty A vital job of formal models is to expel issues in court(s) when important. ambiguity. Truth be told, legislation teems with ambiguity: since it is written in V common language there are no sections thus APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL the extent of connectives, for example, INTELLIGENCE TO LEGAL "and" and "or" can be vague (legal drafters INFORMATICS don't watch the numerical conventions in Artificial intelligence and law (AI and law) this regard). "Except if" is additionally is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) equipped for a few translations, and legal mainly concerned about uses of AI to legal designer never write "if and just if", despite informatics problems and unique research the fact that this is frequently what they on those problems. It is additionally expect by "if". In maybe the soonest concerned to contribute the other way: to utilization of logic to show law in AI and send out instruments and techniques created Law, Layman Allen pushed the utilization of with regards to legal problems to AI as a rule. For instance, hypotheses of legal 13 H. Prakken and G.Sartor, Law and logic: A review from an argumentation perspective, Artificial 12 See section 16 (1) and (2) of the TFEU. Intelligence. Available on-line June 2015. ______12 www.supremoamicus.org

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VOLUME 11 ISSN 2456-9704 ______propositional logic to resolve such syntactic regarding arrangements), legislation which ambiguities in a progression of papers.14 utilized numerous exceptionally specialized In the late 1970s and all through the 1980s a ideas, (for example, commitment conditions) noteworthy strand on AI and Law work and which had been the subject of numerous included the creation of executable models corrections created a far less agreeable last of legislation. Starting in the LEGAL work system. of Ronald Stamper 15 the thought was to speak to legislation utilizing a formal A few endeavors were made to enhance language and to utilize this formalization matters from a product designing point of (regularly with some kind of UI to assemble view, particularly to deal with problems, for the certainties of a specific case) as the example, cross reference, confirmation and reason for a specialist system. continuous correction. The utilization of progressive representations 18 was This ended up well known, mainly utilizing recommended to address the main problem, the Horn Clause subset of first request thus called isomorphic 19 portrayal was predicate math. Specifically, Sergot et al's planned to address the other two. As the the portrayal of the British Nationality Act16 1990s built up this strand of work turned out did a lot to advance the methodology. Truth to be to a great extent assimilated in the to be told, as later work appeared, this was advancement of formalizations of domain an untypically suitable bit of legislation on conceptualizations, (purported ontologism), which to utilize the methodology: it was which ended up prominent in AI following new, thus had not been altered, generally crafted by Gruber.20 Early precedents in AI straightforward and the majority of the ideas and Law incorporate Valente's practical were non-specialized. Later work, for ontology21 and the casing based ontology’s example, that on Supplementary Benefits,17 of Visser and van Kralingen. 22 Legal demonstrated that bigger, progressively ontology have since turned into the subject confounded (containing many cross- of customary workshops at AI and Law references, exemptions, counterfactuals, and

18 T. Routen, T.J.M. Bench-Capon, Hierarchical 14 Allen, Layman E. Symbolic logic: A razor-edged formalizations, International Journal of Man-Machine tool for drafting and interpreting legal documents. Studies 35 (1991) 69–93. Yale LJ 66 (1956): 833. 19 T.J.M. Bench-Capon, F.P. Coenen, Isomorphism 15 Stamper, Ronald K. The LEGOL 1 prototype and legal knowledge based systems, Artificial system and language. The Computer Journal 20.2 Intelligence and Law 1 (1992) 65–86. (1977): 102-108. 20 Thomas R. Gruber: The Role of Common 16Sergot, Marek J., et al. The British Nationality Act Ontology in Achieving Sharable, Reusable as a logic program. of the ACM Knowledge Bases. Knowledge Representation 1991: 29.5 (1986): 370–386. 601-602 17 T.J.M. Bench-Capon, G.O. Robinson, T.W. 21 Valente, A. 1995. Legal Knowledge Engineering; Routen, M.J. Sergot, for large A Modelling Approach, IOS Press, Amsterdam. scale applications in law: a formalisation of 22 Robert W. van Kralingen, Pepijn R. S. Visser, supplementary benefit legislation, in: Proceedings of Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, H. Jaap van den Herik: A the First International Conference on Artificial principled approach to developing legal knowledge Intelligence and Law, ACM Press, New York, 1987, systems. International Journal of Human-Computer pp. 190–198. Studies. 51(6): 1127-1154 (1999) ______13 www.supremoamicus.org

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VOLUME 11 ISSN 2456-9704 ______meetings and there are numerous models with regards to electronic institutions,27 the extending from conventional best dimension standards so depicted are controlled (i.e., and centre ontology23 to quite certain models can't be disregarded), yet in different of specific bits of legislation. systems infringement are likewise dealt Since law contains sets of standards, it is with, giving an increasingly faithful obvious that duty or obligation logics have impression of genuine standards.28 been attempted as the formal reason for models of legislation. These, in any case, Law regularly concerns issues about time, have not been generally received as the both identifying with the substance, for reason for master systems, maybe on the example, eras and due dates, and those grounds that master systems should identifying with the law itself, for example, implement the standards, though expressing beginning. A few endeavors have been made duty or obligation logic happens to genuine to display these worldly logics utilizing both intrigue just when we have to consider computational formalisms, for example, the infringement of the norms. 24 In law Event Calculus 29 and transient logics, for coordinated obligations, 25 whereby a example, defensible fleeting logic.30 commitment is owed to another named individual are quite compelling, since In any thought of the utilization of logic to infringement of such commitments is demonstrate law, it should be borne in regularly the premise of legal proceedings. that law is inalienably non-monotonic, as is There is likewise some fascinating work appeared by the rights of advance revered in consolidating obligation or duty and activity every single legal system, and the manner by logics to investigate regulating positions.26 which understandings of the law change With regards to multi-specialist systems, over time.31 Moreover, in the drafting of law standards have been displayed utilizing state transition graphs. Frequently, particularly 27 Marc Esteva, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, JosepLluís Arcos, Carles Sierra, Pere Garcia: Institutionalizing Open Multi-Agent Systems. ICMAS 2000: 381–382 23Rinke Hoekstra, JoostBreuker, Marcello Di Bello, 28 Sanjay Modgil, Nir Oren, NouraFaci, Felipe Alexander Boer: The LKIF Core Ontology of Basic Meneguzzi, Simon Miles and Michael Luck, Legal Concepts. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop Monitoring Compliance with E-Contracts and on Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Norms, Artificial Intelligence and Law 23(2) (2015). Techniques. 2007: 43-63 29 R. Hernandez Marin, G. Sartor, Time and norms: a 24 A.J. Jones, M.J. Sergot, On the characterisation of formalisation in the event-calculus, in: Proceedings law and computer systems: the normative systems of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial perspective, in: J.-J.Ch. Meyer, R. Wieringa (Eds.), Intelligence and Law, ACM, New York, 1999, pp. Deontic Logic in Computer Science: Normative 90–100. System Specification, Wiley, 1993, pp. 275–307 30 G. Governatori, A. Rotolo, G. Sartor, Temporalised 25 H. Herrestad, C. Krogh, Obligations directed from normative positions in defeasible logic, in: bearers to counterparties, in: Proceedings of the Fifth Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence and Law, ACM Press, New and Law, ACM Press, New York, 1995, pp. 210–218. York, 2005, pp. 25–34. 26 M.J. Sergot, A computational theory of normative 31Schauer, Frederick. "On the supposed defeasibility positions, ACM Trans. Comput. Log. 2 (2001) 581– of legal rules." Current Legal Problems 51.1 (1998): 622. 223; Prakken, Henry, and Giovanni Sartor. "The ______14 www.supremoamicus.org

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VOLUME 11 ISSN 2456-9704 ______special cases flourish, and, in the use of the for Artificial Intelligence and Law and other law, precedents are upset and in addition AI communities have considerably pursued. In logic programming approaches, expanded the comprehension of the the negation of failure is frequently used to possibilities, difficulties, and limitations of deal with non-monotonic,32 yet explicit non- AI applications in the legal field. monotonic logics, for example, defensible As per ongoing scholarship in the field, we logic 33 have additionally been utilized. can, for the most part, recognize the Following the advancement of unique accompanying distinctive of AI reasoning argumentation, 34 be that as it may, these methodologies: Deductive reasoning, Case- worries have been tended to through based reasoning, Abductive reasoning, argumentation as opposed to using non- Defeasible reasoning, Probabilistic monotonic logics. reasoning, Reasoning on metaphysics, Statistical reasoning including machine VI learning approaches, Advanced machine ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE learning.35 LEGAL DOMAIN AND THE EXPANDING USE OF ALGORITHMIC As of late, AI research dependent on DECISION MAKING statistics, machine learning and data mining To give a definite structure in decision- have detonated. Among different making forms with the goal that they can be utilizations, these techniques are explicitly automated by has been an utilized for prescient examination purposes. engaging thought for some legal scholars Organizations in various diverse businesses, and practitioners for quite a while. The field for example, publicizing, money related of legal informatics has fretted about the administrations, protection, media numerous inquiries encompassing transmission, coordination, wellbeing care employments of AI in legal settings since its are utilizing prescient models to gain key initial days. The International Association preferred standpoint over their competition. Programming upheld gauging of legal decisions 36 , and various different three faces of defeasibility in the law." Ratio Juris 17.1 (2004): 118-139; R. Loui: Paths to applications of artificial intelligence to Defeasibility: Reply to Schauer on Hart. APA 12:2, anticipate legal results have been propelled 2013 lately around the globe.37 32 Robert A. Kowalski: The Treatment of Negation in Logic Programs for Representing Legislation. As of now, in the primes of legal master Proceedings of Second International Conference on 38 Artificial Intelligence and Law. 1989: 11–15 systems during the 1990s saw that there are 33 Benjamin Johnston, Guido Governatori: Induction relatively mythological desires with regards of Defeasible Logic Theories in the Legal Domain. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law 2003:204–213 35Ashley, 2017; Bench-Capon et al., 2012; Russell 34 Phan Minh Dung: On the Acceptability of &Norvig, 2009. Arguments and its Fundamental Role in 36Waltl, Bonczek, Scepankova, Landthaler&Matthes, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Logic Programming and 2017 n-Person Games. Artificial Intelligence 77(2): 321– 37 Vogl,2017. 358 (1995) 38 Herbert Fiedler ______15 www.supremoamicus.org

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VOLUME 11 ISSN 2456-9704 ______to algorithmic decision-making. 39 For the VII field of legal master systems, he talked CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES about six unmistakable desires that OF APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL individuals have with respect to ADM, INTELLIGENCE TO LEGAL including the accompanying two pertaining INFORMATICS to the idea of explain ability: Artificial intelligence (AI), a term coined in  The ability to effectively the 1950s, is set to wind up, especially comprehend and pursue learning problematic particularly with regards to due portrayal, and diligence. By a long shot, one of the greatest  The explain ability and barriers to its take-up is boundless industry straightforwardness of decisions. distrust, particularly among the individuals Today, little consideration is given to the who might in all probability benefit from its possibilities of utilizing pre-characterized utilization. Numerous lawyers wonder why rules dependent on deductive and change is extremely important when what ontological reasoning techniques that are the has dependably been done and is profitable main techniques basic legal master systems still works. The degree of knowledge on the as a method for explaining automated theme persuades that they can postpone decision-making forms. Ebb and flow integrating the right programming for a research on ADM is increasingly centered rainy day. on the techniques of the machine learning field, instead of the more static and human- While it is comprehended that AI can designed decision structures of legal master benefit various platforms, for instance, systems. By and by, it is significant that failure by the legal sector to understand the high-quality reasoning apparatuses, for esteem added to their very own line of work example, the Oracle Policy Automation is broad. This is especially problematic tool, 40 are utilized by organizations all when productivity, competitive preferred around the globe to speak to decision standpoint and representative fulfillment are structures and to empower automated (legal) all in danger. reasoning. Be that as it may, as Fiedler brings up, even the decisions of those hand- There is likewise a tremendous absence of made systems are difficult to comprehend incentive to take up AI as law firms, and explain. In light of that, and in light of specifically, give costly, hourly-based the pervasiveness of the opaque machine- tailored counsel. The idea that technology learning based automated decision-making can substitute a portion of the manual systems, more consideration regarding the assignments performed on a daily premise, genuine algorithmic preparing basic an for example, document analysis and automated decision is warranted. grouping, with shrewd workflows and decrease the general expense to a customer isn't really appealing. All things considered,

39 Fiedler 1990. the internet and increased hiring for in-house 40 https://www.oracle.com/applications/oracle-policy- counsel jobs have put weight on law firms to automation/index.html (all websites last accessed on perform under time constraints. The ascent 12 January 2018). ______16 www.supremoamicus.org

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VOLUME 11 ISSN 2456-9704 ______in the volume and scope of documents for customers' activities turn out to be the survey isn't helping matters either. progressively reasonable to outsource. In addition, assigning the repetitive As the saying goes ‘amongst trouble lies undertakings to a stage with AI capabilities opportunity’ In spite of the fact that a settled would apparently better pull in and retain versus hourly pricing model is dubious, the top ability, an issue that has tormented particularly with regards to evaluating the the sector for a considerable length of quantity of work to be conveyed, using time.42 intelligent programming to robotize due diligence can permit law firms to charge VIII their customers for, and centre their CONCLUSION endeavors around, providing progressively Artificial intelligence is based on the qualified and detailed legal counsel. doctrine of philosophical procedures and Also, Law and policy issues in legal mathematical operations. Although it can be informatics come from the utilization of observed, that machines outperform humans instructive advancements in the usage of in many tasks, their decisions are rational law, for example, the utilization of and follow strict mathematical, i.e. rational, subpoenas for data found in email, look structures. Artificial intelligence is already inquiries, and interpersonal organizations. seen and developed in online dispute Policy ways to deal with legal informatics resolution platforms that use optimization issues fluctuate all through the world; for algorithms and blind-bidding. 43 Artificial instance, European nations will, in general, intelligence is also frequently employed in, require annihilation or anonymity of data so the legal ontology, "an explicit, formal, and it can't be utilized for discovery.41 general specification of a conceptualization of properties of and relations between Be that as it may, there are different objects in a given domain".44 opportunities of AI to legal informatics, for example, helping due diligence specialists Within the practice issues conceptual area, with sorting huge volumes of information in progress continues to be made on both this manner supporting all gatherings litigation as well as transaction focused on involved in an exchange, to enable speed to various technologies. In particular, up the document audit stage and potential technology which is including predictive territories of interest are featured. Process coding which in turn has the potential to streamlining and hazard analysis are not by effect substantial efficiency gains in law any means the only benefits. Application of AI to legal informatics can both enhance the 42 https://www.raconteur.net/sponsored/application- dimension of the task the board embraced ai-legal-sector-challenges-opportunities and in addition increase the quantity of 43 David Allen Larson, "Brother, Can You Spare A exchanges law firms chip away at as their Dime?" Technology Can Reduce Dispute Resolution Costs When Times Are Tough and Improve Outcomes, 11 Nev. L.J. 523, 550 (2011) 41 Dolin, Ron A. "Search Query Privacy: The 44Wyner, A. "An Ontology in OWL for Legal Case- Problem of Anonymization". Hastings Science & Based Reasoning". Artificial Intelligence and Law. Technology Law Journal. 2010: 137. 16: 361–387. doi:10.1007/s10506-008-9070-8. ______17 www.supremoamicus.org

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VOLUME 11 ISSN 2456-9704 ______practice. Though predictive coding has and turn out to be a piece of a period that largely been applied in the litigation space, it has travelled every which way. Failing to is beginning to make inroads in transaction invest in AI will keep firms from competing practice, where it is being used to improve in the market. A few industry players document review in mergers and embracing technology are exploring the acquisitions. 45 Other advances, including choices offered by AI and its capability to coding in transaction contracts, and disturb all around practised business increasingly advanced document preparation rehearses and optimizes forms. With the systems demonstrate the importance of legal inescapable restructuring of the sector informatics in the transactional law space.46 officially in progress, firms won't just get on Also, there are various legal technology board, however, guarantee their view of AI startups that are attempting and have as an addition as opposed to a basic mostly somewhat succeeded to create proprietary the direct business changes. Underlying models to predict case outcomes; one policies should be evaluated and the ensuing example is LexMachina, 47 a company that training of staff considered. The best down provides intellectual data and methodology with a firm's administration on analytics. It is to be noted that treating legal board and understanding client needs will be informatics as a field as a serious tool for entered in defining the degree and quality of changing the way people interact with the implementation. law may pave the way for radical innovations in areas of law that are seen as ***** inherently static, top-down, and bureaucratic as well as increasing explain ability of machine learning techniques more generally, will not only increase the acceptance of ADM based on machine learning, but it will also allow system engineers to improve the classification mechanisms and the algorithmic decision making itself.

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45 "NC by NC Bar Association - NC Bar Association's NC Lawyer". ncbar.org. Retrieved 26 December 2016. 46 Darryl Mountain, XML E-Contracts: Documents that Describe Themselves, 11(3) INT'L J.L. & TECH. 274 (2003); Hunziker, R (Feb 2017). "New Invention Disclosure Standard – Why Would I Care?" (PDF). IPO Law Journal. Intellectual Property Owners Association. 47 "Legal Analytics by LexMachina". lexmachina.com. Retrieved 26 December 2016. ______18 www.supremoamicus.org