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Post by mirium on Jan 13, 2009 10:22:25 GMT -5
Also read a deposition transcript where a guy who had written a book about monster alien robots was suing a toy company that had a line of monster alien robots, claiming they had stolen the concept. :screwloose:
Anyway, they were questioning the guy who designed the toys, asking him to describe how he thought of each part of each one. At one point, it reads:
"Will the record please show that Exhibit 38 is walking across the table toward the deponent."
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Post by jaglady on Jan 13, 2009 19:54:12 GMT -5
Uh, Ma'am? I'm not ONE BIT SURPRISED.  |
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Post by babs on Feb 28, 2009 21:55:56 GMT -5
Oh my, I was laughing so hard, I had to show my brother!
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Post by mirium on Mar 1, 2009 0:45:48 GMT -5
That was a fun case to work on, the plaintiff was so obviously nuts that there wasn't much tension on the defendant's side. (He was also suing the Star Wars folks, although the first Star Wars movie came out well before his first book.)  I was just there for the one case, so my workspace was in the Exhibits Room -- including several dozen examples of alien monster toys. I moved each one's arms and legs so they looked poised for attack and arranged them all in a half-circle on the table, facing me in a menacing manner. It startled people who came in to see me, but they laughed when I explained that it prevented me from goofing off, and then I got a lot of visitors who were there on flimsy excuses -- my kind of people! One of the things that the plaintiff had to prove was that the toys were aimed at the same market as his books, and those customers would get confused about whether the books and toys came from the same source. The toys were aimed at pre-adolescent boys, so one of my tasks was to go through the books and identify any bits that weren't appropriate for kids. Yes, they paid me to look for smut! ;D And boy, did I find it -- the books were action/adventure plus soft (and not-so-soft) porn. At trial, they had the plaintiff read some of the steamiest passages out loud and then asked him if he had written that for children. He got rather confused himself at that point....  :pillowfight: :screwloose: |
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Post by furrymom1 on Sept 23, 2009 18:34:26 GMT -5
off topic as usual but while i was in college in 1995 i had a part time job at a company that made missles and i was hired along with 10 other people to search 900 or so boxes for a paper needed for a lawsuit against a contractor. i'd been there 3 or 4 weeks when i found an envelope with top secret stamped in red all over. all of a sudden that room was swarming with suits. it made me so nervious i quit but i did have a better job waiting for me.. it was so neat and funny though...jeanne
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I was just there for the one case, so my workspace was in the Exhibits Room -- including several dozen examples of alien monster toys. I moved each one's arms and legs so they looked poised for attack and arranged them all in a half-circle on the table, facing me in a menacing manner. It startled people who came in to see me, but they laughed when I explained that it prevented me from goofing off, and then I got a lot of visitors who were there on flimsy excuses -- my kind of people!