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Plaintiff and their lawyers wasting the court's time
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 10 2012 @ 04:31 PM EDT
Let me chime in with an elementary application of
mathematics!

I can either win or lose a case.
If I win an IP case, I get a share of MIILLLIOONSSS and my
legal fees
If I lose an IP case, I get my legal fees

No matter what the odds of winning are, the expected value
of any litigation is at least equal to my legal fees. (After
all, the client is the one who pays the opponent's legal
fees, if such a penalty is called for).

So the only rational action is to take as many cases as
possible, as I'm practically guaranteed a profit!

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Negative feed back in systems ...
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 10 2012 @ 04:33 PM EDT
Yes for a system to be stable, it must have negative
feedback, or a net gain less than one.

Now you see, that is what politicians are there to do:
reduce negative feedback that is, so the net gain for them
and all their buddy's becomes much greater than one.

Personally, I believe that if the federal personal income
tax crossed the 50% point at some meaninful income, for
example at $500000, most of the economic and stupid legal
problems would go away. It is all these mega-income people
that are causing the problems.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

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