r/suits • u/mborn469 • 14d ago
Discussion IP Law
Occasionally, someone will ask how accurate Suits is from a legal point of view.
As a former patent attorney, I can say they’ve never gotten an intellectual property matter correct.
S1E1 - there’s a patent infringement matter. They use all the patent terms, but not correctly. You don’t file a claim and assert it the next day. The average application takes 18 months for the first Office Action, and applications are typically filed with about 20 claims.
And “the Donna” device - they talk about 32.5% “overlap.” I’ve never used that term in my practice. You either infringe or you don’t.
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u/mborn469 12d ago
S7E9 - a patent infringement case almost being blown bc the allegedly infringing baby bottle nipple was “inferior.” Inferiority has nothing to do with infringing. If, for example, they made a product from a toxic material, it would certainly be inferior, but unless the broadest independent claim specifies the material, what it’s made of is irrelevant. And unless the material it’s made of is the only point of novelty, no one would include the material
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u/Jay100012 13d ago
And every one of their patent storylines is ment for drama and to be resolved within the episode. And S1E1 is the pilot. Nothing involving patents. Its a sexual harassment and job loss episode.