Patent Law

Best IP Settlement Advice in the Role of a Cartoon Character

By Les Weinstein, Michael Young, John Leo Wagner, Eric van Ginkel, and Victoria Pynchon

Courtesy of Charles Fincher at the LawComix Blog. 

My own personal best deposition-settlement story:  our settlement team was in London while I completed the corporate designee deposition.  Condition of settlement:  the designee's deposition would never be transcribed.  My supposition:  our opponents never wanted to see the following questions and answers in writing:

Q:  "So when you used the term 'catastrophic,' in section ___ of the Agreement, it didn't add anything to the meaning of the clause in which it appeared?"   

A:  "That's right."

Q:  "You might just as well have used the word 'tulip'?

A:  "Yes." 

My settlement team told me the following day that the tulips were in bloom at Buckingham Palace.

Full post as published by IP ADR Blog on July 27, 2009 (boomark / email).