Intellectual Property Pundit Mugs

'My client pleads not guilty to copyright violation, Your Honor, on the grounds that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.'

"Before I give you all my answers, maybe we should discuss the intellectual property rights."

"I have always depended on the content of strangers."

"That's a very difficult problem to address, Ted, could you restate it as a solution?"

"Suppose you tell me why you want to be a faceless drone at Globatron Inc.?"

'Very well, I'll introduce you. Ego, meet ID. Now get back to work.'

Presidential surveillance ass!"

'I'm afraid this new self you reinvented has already been patented.'

Patents office.

"It's a baby. Federal regulations prohibit our mentioning its race, age, or gender."

'They never let you forget that your intellectual property belongs to them.'

Copyrighted Ideas

Copyright and copyleft

Jasper Coot: 'Osama shoulda named me to the Supreme Court! I ain't no judge, so I'm qualified! Hell. I ann't even a damn lawyer! But Lord knows, I am judgemental!

Wall Street: Panic, don't panic

"Hey Alexa, make it nice and easy for hackers to keep tabs on everything I do and influence my voting intentions."

'I think its being tapped.'

Pie chart - What were we studying, again?

"We understand you're not happy with our privacy policy."

"On the bright side, the NSA is done tracking you."

"You know, the doorway is never going to get popular until somebody invents the door."

"You're not fooling me. I can spot 'fake mews'."

"In view of climate change, I'd put all my money into ice cream, mineral water and weapons!"

'Do I believe?? Listen, I believe in anything that generates $400 billion in annual sales!'

"Yes, we can hear well at the back, but I'd be happy to change seats with anyone who can't..."

I invented the wheel, fire, and the bow and arrow, and then some wiseguy invented lawyers and took them all away from me.

"Wow, Bill! It sounds like you're developing a real moral streak!"

"This could be a boon to mankind, especially - once we take out a patent on it - the mankind in this laboratory."

Airport security - next step?

'This mindless blather is edited for TV.'

Things you should know about...

"Here's the problem -- your fourth wall is broken. That's why you keep seeing all those people out there."

"Gee, I'm not so sure about that one."

"Marry me, Virginia. My genes are excellent and, as yet, unpatented."

"My client already has a patent on round things."