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In article <1995Jun26.191338.26713@draper.com>,
   bwc2809@support7 (Barry Chapin (chapin@draper.com)) wrote:

>I am just finishing a good book titled "The Partners" by Louis
>Auchincloss.  It is an entertaining novel about partners in a law
>firm in NYC, set in the 1970's, and is written by a lawyer, in a
>lawyer's perspective.  I need to write a paper on it for Prof. Resp.
>I would recommend this book as light reading for any lawyer or law
>student.  I especially liked it since it gives me a perspective of
>what life might be like for a partner in a law firm - with the problems
>that they deal with, versus what an associate sees as firm life.
>
>Are there any books written about (or that contain) the subject of
>patent law, or intellectual property law, which are NOT reference
>books, like treatises or textbooks, etc.  I am looking for maybe a
>novel or other "story" which may incorporate an IP theme.  It may
>be that there are no such books, but "The Partners" is worth posting
>about anyways.

It is not exactly responsive to your question, but patent law did figure, 
albeit briefly, in one episode of Twin Peaks.  Remember the woman with the 
eyepatch and her husband the tall guy?  There was one episode in which the two 
of them were feeling despondent looking at their drapery rods and hardware on 
the floor, and from context they have been trying to make a sideline business 
out of some improvement in drapery rods.  The man, trying to comfort the 
woman, says:

Nadine, we'll just have to keep looking, until we find a patent lawyer who 
understands drape runners.


Carl Oppedahl
Oppedahl & Larson, patent law firm
oppedahl@patents.com
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