IP: more on etoys.com takes the low road

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 19:24:42 -0800
>Subject: Re: IP: etoys.com takes the low road
>From: "Chris Gulker" <cg@gulker.com>
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>
>
>In all these suits, lawyers rarely go after well-funded adversaries. They
>pick on outfits like etoy where there's a low risk of losing (and even lower
>risk of harm to the client).
>
>I suspect the root cause is billable hours. Startups with piles of VC cash
>attract lawyers, who need to find ways to liberate some of that cash, so
>they go after little guys.
>
>This behavior has been seen in past epochs: in the first 'privatized' games,
>the US Olympic committee's lawyers sued a 2-bus charter operator (who'd been
>using the name for years), but steered clear of Greece's national airline,
>while enforcing their control of the word 'Olympic'.