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Re:The W3C asks for help finding Prior Art to two Apple Pate... by law on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @09:34AM (#2807212)
Good question. Right now, Westlaw charges something like $100 per search in ALLCASES, which is their database of all federal and state court opinions ever written. Just to retrieve a single document by citation is something like $10.

The general trick is to try to craft a very broad 'initial' search that will encapsulate all of your results; you can create sub-searches within that set of retrieved documents (limited to at most around 3,000) at no additional cost.

Re:The W3C asks for help finding Prior Art to two Apple Pate... by jcoder on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @09:38AM (#2807234)
Well, you're not talking ALLCASES, you're looking at academic commentary. Maybe better to pursue a solution that uses HeinOnline?