Patents by Inventor Thomas W. Vacek

Thomas W. Vacek has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Legal research recommendation system
    Patent number: 12020340
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for assisting with legal research and for aiding in the discovery of information and documents relevant to a user's research focus. The inventive systems receive identifications of relevant documents explicitly or implicitly from a user's research session and, based on issues relevant to those documents and other connections to those documents, recommends similar documents to the user for their consideration. Recommendations may be ranked and filtered and the recommendations and their ranking may be based at least in part on aggregated research session information from previous research sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: THOMSON REUTERS ENTERPRISE CENTRE GMBH
    Inventors: Eric Milles, Eric Holten, Matthew Makosky, Thomas W. Vacek, Steven Sidwell, Ryan Kelly, Matthew A. Surprenant, Scott Francis, Michael L. Dahn
  • DOCKET SEARCH AND ANALYTICS ENGINE
    Publication number: 20190385084
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved docket search and analytics engine for determining the outcome of a case for a particular entity or party, for predicting the outcome of a case for a particular entity or party, or for predicting the time to resolution of a case for a particular entity or party. More specifically, the present invention provides a system and engine for accessing and retrieving docket and other data from a plurality of databases and applying by one or more engines a set of models to the retrieved data to make a determination or prediction as to the outcome of a case for an entity or party involved in the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Daniel F. Salas, Frank Schilder, Thomas W. Vacek
  • Docket search and analytics engine
    Patent number: 10445658
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved docket search and analytics engine for determining the outcome of a case for a particular entity or party, for predicting the outcome of a case for a particular entity or party, or for predicting the time to resolution of a case for a particular entity or party. More specifically, the present invention provides a system and engine for accessing and retrieving docket and other data from a plurality of databases and applying by one or more engines a set of models to the retrieved data to make a determination or prediction as to the outcome of a case for an entity or party involved in the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Daniel F. Salas, Frank Schilder, Thomas W. Vacek
  • DOCKET SEARCH AND ANALYTICS ENGINE
    Publication number: 20170076001
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved docket search and analytics engine for determining the outcome of a case for a particular entity or party, for predicting the outcome of a case for a particular entity or party, or for predicting the time to resolution of a case for a particular entity or party. More specifically, the present invention provides a system and engine for accessing and retrieving docket and other data from a plurality of databases and applying by one or more engines a set of models to the retrieved data to make a determination or prediction as to the outcome of a case for an entity or party involved in the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Thomson Reuters Global Resources
    Inventors: Daniel F. Salas, Frank Schilder, Thomas W. Vacek