The Space in Between The Biggest Filer of Copyright Lawsuits?
They were glad I was on call, said the elder son, the filer of the complaint.
Quietly, the Fields were also making some extra money in another way: by becoming the biggest filer of copyright-infringement lawsuits in the nation.
According to data compiled by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the world's single most prolific filer of international patents as of 2011 was ZTE, a Chinese telecommunications corporation.
Taking the job of San Francisco consul for the Chinese government, the lawyer Frederick Bee became an indefatigable filer of lawsuits and writer of protests on behalf of the dispossessed.
"At 3 in the morning, when you can't sleep, you just want to destroy them," said Xavier Gras, a neighbor of the Zero Zero, the person behind the garden hose incident, and — to his growing self-disgust — a frequent filer of complaints against the bar.
The co-filers of the resolution include local authority pensions funds in the EU and US as well as UK ones, such as Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Lambeth, the Environment Agency, the Church of England and the Methodist Church.
THE New York bar, like all complex professional societies, has every sort of specialty you can think of: white-shoe litigators, Mafia defenders, crusading Legal Aiders, corporate crisis managers, City Hall fixers, real estate closers and lowly filers of slip-and-fall lawsuits.
With some success: its software sales are growing by double-digits each year, says Jason Houseworth, the firm's head of digital products.This year, Block has allowed filers of the 1040EZ, the simplest kind of tax return, to download an iPhone or Android smartphone app and file both federal and state taxes at no cost.
(In the final analysis, as SCOTUS blog points out, it's also hard to see how the logic of the White House's case would not ultimately extend to all other states with gay-marriage bans).Of course, the Supreme Court may well ignore the pleas from the White House, as well as the various other filers of amicus briefs.
To gauge the divide, Executive Compensation Advisory Services, an Alexandria, Va., division of Harcourt Inc. that collects, analyzes and sells information on executive pay, collected data on pay at 160 companies among the early filers of proxies for 1999, the documents in which compensation details are reported.
