Online Land Records Management and Web Harvesting: Fidlar v. LPS Deconstructed
Several months ago, I briefly summarized Fidlar Technologies v. LPS Real Estate Data Solutions, 2015 WL 1059007 (N.D.Ill. 2015), a Federal court case in Illinois pitting Fidlar, a software firm against LPS, a real estate data analytics company who allegedly reverse- engineered Fidlar’s Laredo program, which made paper real estate records available on-line to various counties across the country. (http://extractsystems.com/newsletters/web-harvesting-and-electronic-records/). In late 2013, the Court denied LPS’ motion to dismiss Fidlar’s claims. Today’s article is the sequel to the earlier one.
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