My client, the sky, is suing your client for copyright infringement.
Additionally my client is suing GGP’s client for the offer of water, in which my client believes they have a valid interest but were not given due consideration in the making of this offer.
The sky is in violation of my client Sky Media's trademark. We demand that you immediately cease and desist using the term "sky" and all related vernacular.
Thanks for all of these! It perfectly sums up the tar pit that is patents (trademarks and reservations) and copyrights. A couple made me laugh pretty good. Where there’s an interest, there’s 10 in the wing ready to pounce.
He wasted a fantastic amount of the court’s time and various people’s time and money which they never got back.
He clearly knew what he was doing was wrong.
Why shouldn’t there be some criminal statute to punish him? Nothing here fixes any of the harm he’s caused. It just (hopefully) prevents him from doing it in the future.
Though based on how he got here I’m guessing he’ll find a new way.
> He wasted a fantastic amount of the court’s time and various people’s time and money which they never got back.
Virtually every crime costs other people time and money. We generally draw a line between that and more severe varieties of crime, such as those involving physical violence.
What do you think the punishment for protection racket and extortion should be? Patent trolling is exactly that, except masking under the legal system.
It's worse because it's coming from a particularly trusted position, an officer of the court. In the same way it is particularly heinous when a doctor physically harms someone for profit, it is particularly heinous when a lawyer legally harms someone for profit. In both cases they've taken specific oaths and have special duties above-and-beyond regular people to avoid doing such harm. In some sense the question of whether or not these bodies (doctors, lawyers, police officers) actually have higher standards or not is answered by what they do when they find a clear breach of conduct. If they do nothing, or rarely do anything to punish bad behavior, then they don't deserve their reputation for high standards and are, in fact, just a partisan group merely profiting off of a reputation of self-restraint.
I don't think lawyers have a reputation for holding themselves to a high standard. There is a reason that an entire genre of insulting jokes exist targeting lawyers integrity, or rather their general lack of integrity.
Prison costs us a massive amount of money. For that reason alone, I’d be fine with many non-violent criminals being sentenced to monetary punishment and community service or something else that might add value back to society.
Spoken like someone who didn't lose a chance at a house or a college program or a kid or medical treatment or a job due to a thing like this.
Fine, how about we give him a pony, it will be nicer. Hey this is cool, hyperbole is the best. So much easier than trying to actually figure anything out. Thanks for the tip.
Were his actions accidents? Mistakes? Understandable human foibles we all might make?
Is it physically possible for him to make all his victims whole by paying back money and un-fucking all the countless missed opportunities and plans etc?
The answer to both of those questions is no. So what then? Prison already is the tempered response.
