Research from legal research organization Thomson Reuters recently found a 484 percent increase in patent filings from the legal services technology space in the last five years. Five hundred seventy-nine patent filings related to legal services technology were yielded in 2017, as compared with only 99 filings in 2012.
While the U.S. represented the largest portion of these patents filed globally at 38 percent, China and South Korea also showed strong representation among patent filings, filing 34 percent and 15 percent, respectively, of all patents in the legal services space.
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