Steve Taylor wrote:
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A patent is only as good as the money you are prepared to use to defend it.

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And truth be told, they're quite flimsy. For example, if your boss puts his name in the inventor list as is commonly done, if he didn't contribute significantly to the invovation, you can negate the awarded patent.

Such legal proceedings as Steve refers are a monied very of CHICKEN, an old road game where two vehicles drive toward each other in a collision course; the first to swerve away from the pending collision to safety is declared the loser and CHICKEN. In court, the game is played by demonstrating how willing you are to field an expensive legal team and require the opponent to do the same. Whomever comes to their senses first and drops out of the legal case, loses.

As you can see, there is good reason to remove the word JUSTICE and insert the word LEGAL into our various court titles. :)

aka j