Oh, snap
Generally and vaguely speaking, I think I share the popular dislike of how Big Companies have been swinging their laywers at people smaller than themselves.
The RIAA are the easy example, but I'm sure folks can think of some recent case of some little guy having a Cease And Desist levved at them for purely intimidation's sake.
Monster Cable seem to be one of these IP bullies, and recently sent the folks at Blue Jeans Cable (a discount cabling outfit) a C&D regarding some obscure product or other. Y'know, scare them into behaving themselves or something.
Unfortunately for Monster, the president of Blue Jeans Cable, in a previous career, was a lawyer with nearly twenty years worth of litigation specialist experience.
What followed, and was gleefully shared with teh internets, has to be litigation version of YOU SHALL NOT PASS.
I mean, it's verbose, it's dense and it's concise of language. And, beneath all that lawyerese, there is the underlying tone of fuck you, bitch.
If Ash were a laywer, this would be his Come get some.
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1985, I spent nineteen years in litigation practice, with a focus upon federal litigation involving large damages and complex issues. My first seven years were spent primarily on the defense side, where I developed an intense frustration with insurance carriers who would settle meritless claims for nuisance value when the better long-term view would have been to fight against vexatious litigation as a matter of principle. In plaintiffs' practice, likewise, I was always a strong advocate of standing upon principle and taking cases all the way to judgment, even when substantial offers of settlement were on the table. I am "uncompromising" in the most literal sense of the word. If Monster Cable proceeds with litigation against me I will pursue the same merits-driven approach; I do not compromise with bullies and I would rather spend fifty thousand dollars on defense than give you a dollar of unmerited settlement funds. As for signing a licensing agreement for intellectual property which I have not infringed: that will not happen, under any circumstances, whether it makes economic sense or not... Not only am I unintimidated by litigation; I sometimes rather miss it.
I don't understand lawyerese much at all, but I know what a gauntlet looks like.
The RIAA are the easy example, but I'm sure folks can think of some recent case of some little guy having a Cease And Desist levved at them for purely intimidation's sake.
Monster Cable seem to be one of these IP bullies, and recently sent the folks at Blue Jeans Cable (a discount cabling outfit) a C&D regarding some obscure product or other. Y'know, scare them into behaving themselves or something.
Unfortunately for Monster, the president of Blue Jeans Cable, in a previous career, was a lawyer with nearly twenty years worth of litigation specialist experience.
What followed, and was gleefully shared with teh internets, has to be litigation version of YOU SHALL NOT PASS.
I mean, it's verbose, it's dense and it's concise of language. And, beneath all that lawyerese, there is the underlying tone of fuck you, bitch.
If Ash were a laywer, this would be his Come get some.
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1985, I spent nineteen years in litigation practice, with a focus upon federal litigation involving large damages and complex issues. My first seven years were spent primarily on the defense side, where I developed an intense frustration with insurance carriers who would settle meritless claims for nuisance value when the better long-term view would have been to fight against vexatious litigation as a matter of principle. In plaintiffs' practice, likewise, I was always a strong advocate of standing upon principle and taking cases all the way to judgment, even when substantial offers of settlement were on the table. I am "uncompromising" in the most literal sense of the word. If Monster Cable proceeds with litigation against me I will pursue the same merits-driven approach; I do not compromise with bullies and I would rather spend fifty thousand dollars on defense than give you a dollar of unmerited settlement funds. As for signing a licensing agreement for intellectual property which I have not infringed: that will not happen, under any circumstances, whether it makes economic sense or not... Not only am I unintimidated by litigation; I sometimes rather miss it.
I don't understand lawyerese much at all, but I know what a gauntlet looks like.