MUMBAI, India, Oct. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611115134 A) filed by Sharda University on September 25, 2026, for Techniques For Legal Research And Legal Reasoning.

Inventors include Arpita Priya; Shivani Sharma; Nitish Kumar; Kapil Kumar; and Manju Verma.

The application for the patent was published on October 23, 2026, under issue no. 43/2026.

Abstract: Techniques for performing legal research and legal reasoning are disclosed. An input associated with a legal context is received from a user and a first temporal metadata indicative of at least one legally significant time associated with the legal context is identified from the input. A plurality of candidate legal information records is re...