The Quintessence of Ham

We’re still wait­ing for the court reporter’s tran­script from last week’s dis­missal of the law­suit filed by Thom­son Reuters tar­get­ing Zotero, but a few more details have sur­faced regard­ing the nature of the ruling.

Judge Gay­lord L. Finch, Jr. dis­missed the Thom­son Reuters com­plaint due to a lack of juris­dic­tion. The dis­missal was with­out prej­u­dice, which means that the judge did not bar Thom­son Reuters from refil­ing its law­suit. Whether the cor­po­ra­tion can or will refile is unknown (to me) at this point. » Read the rest of this entry «

I’m delighted to announce that this morn­ing the Fair­fax Cir­cuit Court dis­missed the law­suit filed against Zotero by Thom­son Reuters. The law­suit had claimed that the Cen­ter for His­tory and New Media “reverse-engineered” Thom­son Reuters’s End­Note soft­ware to pro­vide data inter­op­er­abil­ity between Zotero and End­Note. » Read the rest of this entry «