Bounty-hunters crestfallen: a federal judge has rejected a Washington, D.C. lawyer’s suit against Solo Cup for stamping its product with expired patent numbers. [AP/Washington Post, earlier]
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I read the article. Did this judge really close the door on a legal quirk, or simply reject this one case.
You’d wonder if this suit were against a company that wasn’t as politically innocuous as a plastic cup maker–like a tobacco company–if the suit would have continued.
It seems as though it would be highly difficult to prove malicious intent, nobody looks at the circle p as determinative of whether a patent exists or is valid anymore.
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