You know you really messed up when the court cites Poe:
Plaintiffs’ preparation of the record evokes two images, neither one of which is flattering to plaintiffs.
The first is that they conceive of the court as a hunting dog with no higher duty than to run down every fox, sniffing out evidence in the record, wherever it may exist.
The second is Poe’s Purloined Letter, in which a valuable letter is hidden in plain sight among many other letters.
Fujitsu Ltd. v. Netgear, Inc. W.D. Wisconsin. 2009. The full opinion is here in PDF format. Warning: this is a patent case.
