Thursday, January 5, 2012

Letter to the Editor (Birmingham Business Journal)


Re: Economic Forecast 2012 (Legal), December 30, 2012

Dear Editor,

In helping decrease the amount of time corporations spend suing each other into oblivion, the recession is a blessing for everyone concerned – except lawyers, of course. I often wonder how much money is wasted by corporations on throwing sand at each other in court, and what could be accomplished if those funds were redirected into growth and innovation. Take a look at the technology sector, for example, where many companies have decided to become 'patent trolls,' and and have turned litigation into their key revenue stream rather than bringing new and wondrous things into the world.

James Deagle
Ottawa, Canada

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