... is masses of companies creating and filing patents and none of them creating products. They'll all be waiting for someone else to blink and try and sell something, then the colony of lawyers will come swooping in.
The judge was worried that it might taint the jury's decision in the accuseds' trial. He didn't want jurors going home (not often that juries get sequestered in NZ) and searching for the accused on the internet, and finding (possibly prejudicial and/or wrong) information about them.
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Longer is better
I tend to listen to podcasts while commuting, so prefer the a longer podcast.
The inevitable conclusion...
... is masses of companies creating and filing patents and none of them creating products. They'll all be waiting for someone else to blink and try and sell something, then the colony of lawyers will come swooping in.
Don't need the PDF
The *story* of the PDF going viral was enough for my wife to order the book from Amazon.
Trying to justify their employment
At least the moron-in-a-hurry seems to be smarter than the morons-with-law-degrees...
The reason...
The judge was worried that it might taint the jury's decision in the accuseds' trial. He didn't want jurors going home (not often that juries get sequestered in NZ) and searching for the accused on the internet, and finding (possibly prejudicial and/or wrong) information about them.