Thomson Reuters Lawsuit Dismissed

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.

As co-director of the Zotero project along with Dan Cohen, I look forward to witnessing the Zotero team now devote its full attention to crafting the pathbreaking new features that are immediately on the development horizon: customized research recommendations, innovative annotation tools, and pioneering collaborative functionality.

It’s worth noting that even while the lawsuit was underway over the last nine months, Zotero geniuses completed the implementation of such radical new functionality as cloud-based synchronization, shared group libraries, PDF metadata detection, automatic proxy support, live CVs, and much more. And our amazing community performed this heavy lifting all while supporting a user base that has grown into the millions. I can only imagine what the Zotero project will be able to achieve unimpeded!

41 thoughts on “Thomson Reuters Lawsuit Dismissed”

Brian Croxall 4 June 2009 at 1:58 pm

Congratulations to you all! This is wonderful news. Full steam ahead.

Bruce 4 June 2009 at 2:35 pm

So where’s the “details” (about the dismissal itself)?

[We expect to have a transcript from the court reporter early next week and will have further information then. Apologies for the delay. –Sean]

Chris Keene 4 June 2009 at 2:49 pm

Great news! thanks for letting us all know.

Chris
(PS hoping to get Aquabrowser and Zotero working happily together one day)

Mark Tebeau 4 June 2009 at 3:04 pm

great news!

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Anirvan Chatterjee 4 June 2009 at 8:17 pm

Congrats!

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Paul Albert 4 June 2009 at 10:16 pm

Super job. Keep it up!!!

sky 4 June 2009 at 10:23 pm

Excellent! I’ve been telling students and other postgraduates about Zotero, so I’m glad to hear that this cloud hanging over it has faded. Zotero’s been such a great help in writing my PhD, thank you.

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datamuse 5 June 2009 at 10:20 am

Really glad to read this!

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narles 5 June 2009 at 11:09 am

As a recent graduate from George Mason University, I am extremely glad to hear that this ridiculous lawsuit has been dismissed. It would have saddened me very much to hear about my school being forced to pay thousands (maybe millions) of dollars to some money-grubbing corporation just because they were afraid of advancement in the field that they compete in for business. As an aside, great work, Zotero team! Keep it up!

Maria Droujkova 5 June 2009 at 2:11 pm

Congratulations!!! When I first installed Zotero, I was so delighted by the features, details of implementation, the ease and the natural feel of everything — I literally cried out “Oh this is great!” every few minutes, so family would come to investigate. I have a lot of respect for Zotero team. Cheers!