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2006-12-09 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by .com 2006-12-09 01:08|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Patent attorneys?!?!

Posted by exJAG 2006-12-09 08:10|| 2006-12-09 08:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, patent attorneys deal with inventors who tend to be a little more on the squirrely side of the human spectrum. My last office job was fa consulting firm who dealt with intellectual property, and some of our inventor-clients...lets just say I was amazed that some of them were allowed out unsupervised.
My abiding nightmare was that one of them someday would come bombing through the front door with a gun.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2006-12-09 08:28|| www.sgtryker.com]">[www.sgtryker.com] 2006-12-09 08:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Hmm. I guess that makes sense. I am a patent attorney, and we're about as threatening as librarians. It's just that in biotech, I tend to think of clients only as institutions and their relatively normal employees.

But now that you mention it, I had a couple of individual "inventors" consult me when I was doing military legal assistance. They were pretty squirrely -- adamant that their little widgets are tantamount to cold fusion. One guy expected to leave my office with a patent and a million-dollar contract with the Army, and just about f***ing erupted when I explained that the process was considerably more involved.

Okay, yeah, I see your point, Sgt. Mom!

Posted by exJAG 2006-12-09 10:00|| 2006-12-09 10:00|| Front Page Top

#4 So there is a animated fly on the GIF....
hmmm ... is that patentable?

With reference now to FIG. 1, there is showm a simple animated GIF photo exemplary pest elimination device. The elimination device 24, 34, 44 can be attached to a helmet a gun or a hand for example.

....

Posted by 3dc 2006-12-09 11:01|| 2006-12-09 11:01|| Front Page Top

#5 You called it, Sgt. Mom:

The gunman who fatally shot three people in a law firm's high-rise office before he was killed by police felt cheated over an invention, authorities said Saturday.

. . . Jackson, 59, told police before he was shot that he had been cheated over a toilet he had invented for use in trucks, Police Superintendent Phil Cline said Saturday.

The Chicago PD did some nice shooting, too:

He was holding a hostage at gunpoint Friday when a SWAT officer shot him from about 45 yards away, Cline said earlier. There were no negotiations and the hostage was unharmed, police said.

Posted by exJAG 2006-12-09 14:47|| 2006-12-09 14:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Sigh. Color me un-surprised. The combination of being very creative, but somewhat unstable, in combination with very real odds against getting a new invention into the profitable market-sector... it had some really nasty potential.
And my office was closest to the front door, at that firm, too. I often thought about asking for getting a panic button installed.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2006-12-09 15:14|| www.sgtstryker.com]">[www.sgtstryker.com] 2006-12-09 15:14|| Front Page Top

#7 I want to patent thisn here device I invented that killz all the lawyers thru the internets.

I calls it a Henry VI.

Posted by Billy Shakespeare Jr. 2006-12-09 16:06|| 2006-12-09 16:06|| Front Page Top

#8 GREAT graphic!!!

There was no negotiation and the hostage was unharmed, he said.

KORBEN: Mind if I go? I'm an excellent negotiator.

COP 1: Uh... Sure, go ahead.

Korben gets ready.

COP 1: We're sending someone in who's authorized to negotiate.

[INTERIOR OF POLICE STATION]

Korben walks quickly into the room, heads straight for Akanit, raises his gun and puts a bullet through his head.

KORBEN: Anyone else want to negotiate?

COP 2: (to another Cop) Where'd he learn to negotiate like that?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-09 18:50|| 2006-12-09 18:50|| Front Page Top

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