Sunday 2 June 2013

Patent wars: Apple, betrayed by its own law firm

If there was a betrayal here, it was by a lawyer who no longer works with the law firm in question.

It's somehow appropriate that the lawyer in question is now associated with a company called "FlatWorld".

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