TiVo Bought Some Bull In Marshall, Texas (Literally)
from the or-was-it-the-jury-that-bought-it? dept
For years we've discussed how patent holders love to file infringement lawsuits in Marshall, Texas. There are a variety of reasons for this, but a big part of it is that the court and the juries there seem extra sympathetic to patent holders. However, when TiVo took Dish Network to court in Marshall, apparently it wanted a little extra something to help push it over the edge. So it bought some bull. Literally.Two weeks before the jury handed TiVo a $74 million award, the company apparently "paid the record-breaking sum of $10,000" for a "Grand Champion Steer" right in Marshall, Texas. Oh, and they renamed it TiVo. TiVo's lawyers insist it had absolutely nothing to do with winning the case, but, still... why buy the bull? Apparently Samsung -- no stranger to patent litigation -- is also getting involved in "civic" causes in Marshall. There's a local celebratory event called "Stagecoach Days" in Marshall that has recently been (wait for it...) renamed as Samsung Stagecoach Days. Of course, apparently one jury consultant warns that this kind of thing can backfire:
"Buying a cow like that I think is bullshit. I think it's insulting -- the idea that people are so simple that something like that will influence the case."Well, somebody bought the bull...
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Pshaw
That's what Voir Dire is for.
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And that's what jury consultants are for.
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That would be called a "herd". City slicker, eh?
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Bull
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Moo.
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Question
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Disgraceful
To think, the American revolution was basically fought to rid ourselves of a government of foreign aristocrats. Who the hell do these stupid plebe crackers think they are serving by this?
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Haha
"The cow?"
"Yeah. She was shy at first, but I kept working her and got a whole bucketfull of milk."
"Son, we ain't got a cow....we got a bull."
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shocking!
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Bulls
Most of the money is given to charity or to the kid who raised it as scholarship money etc.
10,000 is a steal.
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My bullshit detector goes off the chart when I read that sort of thing from that sort of person... like a politician saying they trust the voters to make the right choice... Total bullshit... they generally truly believe the exact opposite.
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