25th July 2010, 1:25 AM
You're probably right. My question is this. Why is it that so many companies sue in obviously idiotic lawsuits for things like this? I mean, even the most cursory examination should tell them they can't win, and further there's usually very little they could hope to "win" from such things (Monster Cable suing any and every company with "Monster" in their name comes to mind). It just seems like someone in that company isn't keeping their lawyers in check.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)