When Amr Mohsen's company brought a patent infringement suit six years ago, he was backed by an A-team of lawyers from two of the country's best litigation firms: Latham & Watkins and Howrey Simon Arnold & White. None of them could have predicted the ways in which the case would progress into one of the most bizarre and disturbing patent disputes � ending with their client allegedly soliciting the judge�s murder.
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However, the San Jose Mercury News published a story about Mr. Mohsen's troubles a few months ago, which you can read here, via SiliconValley.com. A few days after it was published, all the judges on the Northern District [San Francisco] federal bench recused themselves from hearing Mohsen's case, which is now being dealt with in Sacramento.
There are two morals to this story: First, it's bad to perjure yourself in a federal civil case. Second, it's really fucking bad to solicit the murder of a sitting federal judge.