Comic Transcript
CALLER: You’ve reached the London office of McFoodStuffs. How may we feed you today?
ALICE: Hello, this is Alice from the Marketing Division of Ubersoft. I’d like to talk to you about your sandwich-making patent.
CALLER: What, again? I thought we’d finally covered this with you lot. All we have is a patent that covers a process for making sandwiches that includes using a device we invented specifically for our kitchens.
ALICE: Yes, I know, I’ve read the patent.
CALLER: Then you know that all this nonsense about us patenting the basic process of making a sandwich is ridiculous, and that we make no claims to owning the rights to sandwich-making in general.
ALICE: Yes, I know that, but we want you to.
CALLER: You want us to what?
ALICE: We want you to claim that you own the rights to sandwich-making in general.
(Silence.)
CALLER: What?
ALICE: And then we want you to sue us for violating your intellectual property.
