Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for improvements in case management and docketing

A computer-implemented method for presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) at a personal computer providing access to information from an instance of an in-memory docket that is generated on demand by a user without manual data entry of bibliographical or transactional information of patent properties, the instance of the in-memory docket comprising information regarding patent properties that are associated with a customer number at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the method comprising:

• (a) programmatically downloading, by the personal computer, from an online computer system of the United States Patent & Trademark Office, data relating to patent properties that are associated with the customer number by
• (i) programmatically accessing over the Internet the online computer system of the United States Patent & Trademark Office, and
• (ii) programmatically downloading to the personal computer one or more XML files containing application data for a customer number;
• (b) programmatically constructing in transitory memory of the personal computer, based on the downloaded data, the in-memory docket for the patent properties associated with the customer number;
• and
• (c) programmatically displaying the graphical user interface providing access to information from the instance of an in-memory docket, the graphical user interface comprising
• (i) a matters display area configured to display a row for each patent property representing a matter in the in-memory docket, the in-memory docket including a matter for each patent property associated with the customer number, wherein a user can click on a row to select it,
• (ii) a matter details display area configured to display details for a matter selected via the matters display area, and
• (iii) an events display area configured to display a plurality of rows each corresponding to an event for a matter selected via the matter display area.