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What's an "intellectual-theft trial"?
by kleiba 9y ago
What's an "intellectual-theft trial"?
- emodendroket 9y agoA trial to determine whether the accused party is guilty of intellectual property theft. I'm not sure what's unclear.
- kleiba 9y agoWell, maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker of English, but since the word "property" isn't part of the expression it wasn't obvious to me.
- emodendroket 9y agoSorry if the comment was excessively snippy, in that case.
- Whitestrake 9y agoWould a trial to determine theft of property normally be called a "theft trial"? I assumed that if that were the case, it would follow logically that an "intellectual theft trial" would be a trial to determine theft of intellectual property. I suppose it might be strange if the former is not common vernacular.
- emodendroket 9y agoIt would be more likely to use the actual crime someone was charged with (e.g., "robbery trial," "larceny trial," etc.) and I think it's rare for legal statutes to have a crime called "theft." But otherwise the form seems normal.