Challenge: The project required Inventus to find an alternative way to de-duplicate across the document sets without the use of the traditional hash value as the unique identifier.

The Solution: Inventus developed a custom script that would read and normalize fielded metadata between both sets of processed data.  Inventus successfully deployed the de-duplication solution for the law firm client.  Following a rigorous internal Quality Control process, the Inventus team was able to release the data to the client in advance of the close of discovery.

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“We have finished another phenomenal year in terms of company growth driven in large part by our expanding corporate client base,” said Trevor Campion, CEO of Inventus. “We were also able to make significant investments in our operational infrastructure to ensure that our clients continue to experience the leading technology solutions built on a state-of-the-art environment.”

“Inventus continues to outperform the competition in terms of growth rate by staying true to the value proposition with proven success: a highly-customizable and software-agnostic approach to maximizing the efficiency of electronic document reviews and thereby minimizing the high cost of e-discovery,” said Managing Director and General Counsel Rod Roberson.

“The forward-thinking and cost-conscious approach that our staff takes to solving some often times very complicated technology problems has delivered incredible value to our clients and the message is really resonating with prospective clients that have been less than satisfied with prior review experiences,” added Campion. “That value has made Inventus one of the fastest growing companies in our sector and we expect to remain a leader for the foreseeable future.”

“Relativity Best in Service is an honorable distinction that is indicative of the large scale of our Relativity environment and of our dedication to provide the highest level of service to our Relativity clients and confirms our status as a knowledgeable Relativity provider for the third year in a row. 2012 will be our third consecutive year of record growth and performance and Relativity has been an integral part of our technology offering,” said Trevor Campion , CEO of Inventus. “Our success is largely due to our innovation within the platform, technical expertise in supporting the environment and our practical expertise in generating customized workflows for our clients.”

Through a voluntary audit, Relativity Best in Service partners demonstrate their expertise and experience hosting projects in Relativity. kCura evaluates these partners in three areas: technical infrastructure, customer service, and product expertise. Additionally, Best in Service partners meet a set of requirements for their duration as a hosting partner, size of Relativity installations, and core Relativity certifications.

kCura has two designations for Best in Service: Orange and Blue. While both sets of partners are certified to provide a quality Relativity experience, Orange-level partners are recognized for making additional investments in people, process, and technology to manage installations with above-average user counts—all while maintaining the high standards of Best in Service.

“Legal teams recognize the value of Relativity, and many are looking for partners who have the technical infrastructure robust enough to support their massive caseloads,” said Rod Roberson , Managing Director & General Counsel for Inventus. “Through our new managed service offering, Inventus is now able to provide our clients with all of the functionality of a highly-customized Relativity environment, without the necessity of a large capital IT investment.”

“It’s great to see Inventus customizing Relativity to meet the needs of their diverse client base, while providing an exceptional Relativity experience,” said Andrew Sieja , president and CEO of kCura. “We’re excited to recognize their achievement of Best in Service for a third year in a row.”

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Challenge: Approximately 800 documents with voluminous redactions needed to be checked for accuracy and consistency; some of which were over 200 pages of redactions.  The review team needed to complete the task within a three-day period.

Solution: We devised a plan using Relativity’s batching process and Equivio’s Near-Duplicate technology and “Compare” feature to achieve the objective within the quick timeframe.  The results were astounding

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Predictive coding software assists document reviewers by applying computerized learning techniques to find responsive information. Its use is currently being contested in the widely followed labor dispute case Monique da Silva Moore, et al. v. Publicis Group SA, et al.   But this Virginia case, Global Aerospace Inc.,, may be the first where predictive coding was actually ordered.

Loudoun Circuit Court Judge James Chamblin wrote, “Having heard argument with regard to the Motion of Landow Aviation … it is hereby ordered Defendants shall be allowed to proceed with the use of predictive coding for purposes of processing and production of electronically stored information.” JudgeChamblin acknowledged that the receiving party will still have the opportunity to question the completeness of the contents of the production or the ongoing use of predictive coding.” The court order allowed 60 days for processing, and another 60 days for production.

The Judge’s order was in response to the Defendant’s motion requesting either that predictive technology be allowed or that the Plaintiff’s pay any additional costs associated with traditional review.

Defendants expect predictive coding to reduce the data set from 8 terabytes data set to a few hundred gigabytes.

DALLAS, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Inventus, LLC, a cloud computing and SaaS provider of e-Discovery document review and information management software, has closed financials for the first quarter in 2012 and has delivered its sixth consecutive record quarter.

“We continue to experience incredible financial results quarter-after-quarter and expect this trend to continue for the foreseeable future,” said Trevor Campion, CEO of Inventus. “On the heels of a record 2011, it’s great to get off to a fast start in 2012 and our pipeline has never been more robust.”

Inventus attributes its success to leveraging best-of-breed technology with innovative proprietary workflows and pricing models that are dramatically reducing the costs of discovery.

“We have provided material value to our clients in terms of both costs savings and risk reduction. That value is garnering Inventus more market share quickly,” said Mr. Campion.

“The demand for our services continues to increase as corporations are dealing with the exponential growth of stored data,” said Rod Roberson, Managing Director of Inventus. “With a large technology infrastructure base already built, we feel like we are positioned to accommodate this increasing demand from both new and existing clients.”

Management attributes the growth to an increasing base of corporate clients taking more ownership of the discovery process and now counts over 20 of the Fortune 250 on its client list.  In addition to the expanding corporate base, Inventus continues to expand its geographic presence and is in the process of expanding overseas by adding a London location.

“Our clients are global and we’re keen to deliver the same value abroad as we currently do domestically,” said Mr. Campion. “London is an exciting market and we’re pleased that our clients have enough confidence in the value we’re delivering to push for this expansion.”

Oracle sued Google because the Google Android smartphone allegedly infringes on Oracle’s patents related to their Java programming language.  The following email was sent at 11:05 am on August 6, 2010.

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Attorney Work Product
Google Confidential

Hi Andy,
This is a short pre-read for the call at 12:30.  In Dan’s earlier we didn’t give you a lot of context, looking for a visceral reaction that we got. 

What we’ve actually been asked to do (by Larry and Sergei) is to investigate what technical alternatives exist to Java for Android and Chrome.  We’ve been over a bunch of these, that think they all suck.  We conclude that we need to negotiate a license for Java under the terms we need.

That said, Alan Eustace said that the threat of moving off Java hit Safra Katz hard.  We think there is a value in the negotiations to put forward our most credible alternative, the goal being to get better terms and price for Java.

It looks to us that Obj-C provides that most credible alternative in this context, which should not be confused with us thinking we should make the change.  What we’re looking for from you is the reasons why you hate this idea, whether you think there’s anything we’ve missed in our understanding of the option.

-Tim and Dan
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Google withheld the last draft and the “sent” version of the email as privileged and listed them on its privilege log.  Unfortunately, eight additional drafts were auto-saved on the drafter’s computer BEFORE he added the “Work Product” and the “Confidential” labels. Those drafts were produced to Oracle and later held not to be privileged as work product or an attorney-client communication.

This situation could have easily been avoided by the use of near-duplicate clustering that would have flagged the additional copies that were missed.Inventus uses Equivio’s near-dupe technologies to measure the data points of the document so that even if the documents contained odd words, misspellings, or other oddities, their scores would be extremely high indicating they are near duplicates and should therefore be similarly coded and not produced to opposing counsel.  For more information regarding Oracle v. Google, see Craig Ball’s Blog at http://ballinyourcourt.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/439/#more-439