Patent Law

A PLEA TO IP LITIGATORS: DRAW ME PICTURES!!

By Les Weinstein, Michael Young, John Leo Wagner, Eric van Ginkel, and Victoria Pynchon

Hap tip to Corner of Lex and Biz for Drawing that Explains Copyright Law with link to Eric J. Heels' Copyright rights, unregulated uses, and fair use whose drawing appears below. 

This is a plea from your mediator.  Yes, I love the well-wrought narrative and yes I am a sucker for persuasive prose. 

But after I read your brief, I DIAGRAM your argument, connect the party relationships with different colored pens, make charts of the legal issues, rights, obligations, damages, business interests and the like.  

Guess what?  You could do this for me. 

And if you do it for me first (or if you are the ONLY one to do it) you will have a greatest influence on the way in which I visualize the case.  You will frame the issues and set the stage.  And though I will struggle -- as always -- to be impeccably neutral, you will have the upper hand in persuading me of anything I need to be persuaded of to depress the other side's expectations of success on the merits. 

Help me help you.

Full post as published by IP ADR Blog on June 08, 2008 (boomark / email).