The Litigation service exposes global litigation data. Case details, outcomes, party data and more are available from multiple courts. This service is available through the CLAIMS Direct platform as a separate subscription. If you are interested in accessing this service, please contact your sales representative.

/litigation/text/fetch

This endpoint returns a complete litigation record given a valid case-id.

Method	GET

Method	GET
Path	/litigation/text/fetch
Parameter		Values	Description
	@case_id	Integer, e.g., 211580	A valid case-id

Example

wget -O- -q \
  --header 'x-user:x' \
  --header 'x-password:y' \
'https://cdws21.ificlaims.com/litigation/text/fetch?case_id=211580'

Response

<litigation case-id="211580" case-number="17-1590" filed-date="20180524" closed-date="20181001">
    <parties />
    <related-publications />
    <related-cases />
    <litigation-case-extract />
</litigation>

/litigation/search/query

This endpoint provides full search capabilities for the litigation data set.

Method	GET

Method	GET
Path	/litigation/search/query
Parameter		Values	Description
	@q	String, e.g., ucid:US-5551212-A	Any syntactically correct search string
	@fl	String, e.g., ucid,title,case_id	Comma-separated fields to return
	@rows	Integer, e.g., 10	Positive value indicating maximum number of documents to return. Default is 10.
	@start	Integer, e.g., 0	0-based offset into result set. This parameter as well as the @rows parameter above can be used for paging. Default value is 0.

Note: For information about scoring, see Apache Lucene - Scoring and Similarity.

Example

wget -O- -q \
--header 'x-user:x' \
--header 'x-password:y' \
'https://cdws21.ificlaims.com/litigation/search/query?q=ucid:US-7912786-B2&fl=*,score'

Response (abbreviated)

{
   "time":"0.049625",
   "status":"success",
   "content":{
      "responseHeader":{
         "params":{
            "fl":"*,score",
            "wt":"json",
            "q":"ucid:US-7912786-B2"
         },
         "status":0,
         "QTime":7
      },
      "response":{
         "maxScore":"4.6944013",
         "numFound":1,
         "docs":[
            {
               "product_cat":[
                  "Services - Scientific and technological services and research and design relating thereto; industrial analysis and research services; design and development of computer hardware and software. - IT services - Hosting services and software as a service and rental of software - software as a service [SaaS]"
               ],
               "court":"U.S. Supreme Court",
               "ucid":[
                  "US-7912786-B2",
                  "US-8131643-B2",
                  "US-8321347-B2",
                  "US-8620809-B2"
               ],
               "_version_":1684690169451511808,
               "plaintiff":[
                  "Integrated Technological Systems, Inc."
               ],
               "outcome":"DCT: Closed (closed)",
               "timestamp":"2020-11-29T10:29:05.712Z",
               "case_status":"Closed",
               "text":[
                  "U.S. Supreme Court",
                  "DCT: Closed (closed)",
                  "Service or system for transferring funds in an automated fashion",
                  "Services - Scientific and technological services and research and design relating thereto; industrial analysis and research services; design and development of computer hardware and software. - IT services - Hosting services and software as a service and rental of software - software as a service [SaaS]"
               ],
               "pkey":"211580",
               "closed":20181001,
               "case_id":211580,
               "score":"4.6944013",
               "filed":20180524,
               "rel_pub":[
                  "US-7912786-B2",
                  "US-8131643-B2",
                  "US-8321347-B2",
                  "US-8620809-B2"
               ],
               "case_type":"Infringement",
               "defendant":[
                  "First Internet Bank of Indiana"
               ],
               "product":[
                  "Service or system for transferring funds in an automated fashion"
               ],
               "case_flag":"S"
            }
         ],
         "start":0
      }
   }