4 ms·
I just wish the court system was faster and less expensive. It would be fine if you paid a lawyer for a day or two of preparation, walked into the court room a
by ploxiln 12y ago
I just wish the court system was faster and less expensive.
It would be fine if you paid a lawyer for a day or two of preparation, walked into the court room about a month after the case was officially brought, and had the stupid patent suits thrown out after a couple of hours in there. "Wow that's a fancy lawyer you brought. Too bad this patent is clearly bullshit. NEXT"
EDIT: also, cheers to Vizio and NewEgg, for never settling
- dikaiosune 12y agoI agree, although if we continue a thread of trying to identify common sense replacements for expensive and convoluted elements of our legal system, we'll be here quite a while.
- spacemanmatt 12y agoYup. If we could solve it in a comment venue, Slashdot woulda been nominated King-God-Emperor decades ago.
- Lorento 12y agoA small part of the problem is non-lawyers not being allowed to offer legal advice. So for trivial cases, you get people paying thousands for a lawyer to tell them what stackexchange would have done for free in any other field.
- MrBuddyCasino 12y agoIts the same in Germany. I guess thats what you get for having lawyers as politicians.
- throwawaykf05 12y agoMy understanding about patent cases in Germany, though, is that they are almost wholly decided by technical judges. This removes the costs and uncertainty of having a lay jury making decisions about things they cannot hope to understand.
- rtpg 12y agoso saying IANAL is a legal disclaimer? What exactly are the repercussions of this concept? I thought people were allowed to self-represent at least...
- nitrogen 12y agoCorporations are not allowed to self-represent; they must use a lawyer (at least in some jurisdictions).