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Google In Battle With Its Own Lawyers

Posted by samzenpus on from the keeps-your-friends-close dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google is at daggers end with a law firm it's been using since 2008, after discovering that lawyers in the law firm, named Pepper Hamilton LLP, were representing a patent licensing business that sued Google's Android partners last month. Google has claimed that Pepper Hamilton LLP never provided notice that it was hired by Digitude Innovations LLC, the firm that filed patent infringement complaints against Google's business allies."

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  1. So, by rotorbudd · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're talking lawyers here.

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    A bullet may have your name on it, but artillery is addressed to " Whom It May concern"
    1. Re:So, by Kohenkatz · · Score: 5, Funny

      The Pogo quote in your sig sums this up better than any other comment on the page.

  2. What conflict of interest? by Arancaytar · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's no conflict; the lawyer's interests are perfectly consistent.

  3. Re:Lesson of the day: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That sounds like lawyer talk. GET A ROPE!

  4. Re:Lesson of the day: by Bacon+Bits · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well put.

    Personally, I've found my opinion of lawyers is concisely stated in this quote from Henry Peter Brougham, a British Lord, statesman, and, yes, lawyer:
    "A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself."

    Or paraphrasing a friend going through a divorce:
    Seeing my lawyer has all the all the discomfort of a dental procedure, all the frustration of a visit to the DMV, and all the aggrivation of a cell phone bill. Except I don't get anything as useful as a root canal, a drivers licence, or a cell phone. I just get the promise of another visit in a month.

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    The road to tyranny has always been paved with claims of necessity.
  5. Re:What kind of Slashdot is this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No - but it should be!

  6. Re:What kind of Slashdot is this? by geminidomino · · Score: 5, Funny

    First, there's no history of violence against lawyers. There's never been (to my knowledge) a lawyer genocide,

    When you point things like that out, it really makes me depressed about the nature of humanity and society.

    I mean... why the hell not?!