Panel Meeting To Discuss Intellectual Property Precedent

Washington D.C. (GSP). A panel debate will be held today at the Institute for Advanced Civil Procedure at Georgetown University Law School today. Intellectual property legal scholars, federal judges, and patent and sports & entertainment lawyers will discuss the issues of precedent and legal procedure for Dr. Amer Pastel’s recent and unprecedented filing for patent on his “2-Inch Vertical Sweet Jumpshot.” Never before in the United States’ common law legal system has an individual filed for patent on an athletic movement, especially on something that both faces no potential competition nor would one even want to copy. As this filing moves into regulatory agencies, federal officials have been perplexed on how to handle the seemingly absurd and most likely impossible- to-enforce patent. Legal scholars will explore the issue that this will set precedent that will further tie up the legal system, already inefficient with too many extraneous patent filings per year. Legal analysts predict that a wave of “athletic movement” patents will follow, and the surrounding litigation for these cases will overtax the public’s supply of jury potential members in an already too-litigious society. Rumors are already suggesting that Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Wayne Gretzsky are thinking of filing their own athletic patents, possibly rendering it illegal to play their respective sports.