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A Patent Lie
Written by Paul Goldstein
Narrated by Paul Michael
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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Forced out of his high-powered Manhattan law firm and stuck in a dead-end solo practice, Michael Seeley, the tough-but-wounded hero of Errors and Omissions, cannot say no when his estranged brother, Leonard, head of research at upstart biotech Vaxtek, Inc., flies in from California to beg him to take over the company's lawsuit for patent infringement of its pathbreaking AIDS vaccine after the sudden death of the lead trial lawyer. The financial and moral stakes of the case are staggering, and Seeley suspects that murder cannot be ruled out as a hardball litigation tactic of big-pharma adversary St. Gall Laboratories.
As Seeley travels between San Francisco and Silicon Valley to prepare for trial, dark facts surface concerning the vaccine's discovery by Vaxtek scientist Alan Steinhardt and its alleged theft by St. Gall researcher Lily Warren. Ethical quandaries deepen into mortal danger as the trial, under the stern prodding of federal judge Ellen Farnsworth, rushes to its unexpected end. A timely and fascinating look at how the law operates at its most arcane yet financially consequential, A Patent Lie is further evidence that Paul Goldstein is an emerging master of the legal thriller.
As Seeley travels between San Francisco and Silicon Valley to prepare for trial, dark facts surface concerning the vaccine's discovery by Vaxtek scientist Alan Steinhardt and its alleged theft by St. Gall researcher Lily Warren. Ethical quandaries deepen into mortal danger as the trial, under the stern prodding of federal judge Ellen Farnsworth, rushes to its unexpected end. A timely and fascinating look at how the law operates at its most arcane yet financially consequential, A Patent Lie is further evidence that Paul Goldstein is an emerging master of the legal thriller.
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Reviews for A Patent Lie
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm not a a regular reader of legal thrillers, but I heard the author speak and because my husband is a patent attorney, I decided to give this book a try. Well, it definitely sucked me in, so much so that less than half way through I couldn't resist peaking at the end to see how it turned out. Spoiler alert: it does have a satisfying ending. Some of the myriad plot twists didn't seem necessary, but I still enjoyed this novel and would recommend it highly. Great descriptions of San Francisco and the various characters are a bonus.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book was very favorably reviewed on NPR's All Things Considered, and I generally trust, if not entirely agree, with its reviewers. But this book really under-performed against the high expectations I brought to it. The book is certainly a departure from the routine legal thriller, and Goldstein is to be admired for even trying to make something interesting out of a civil patent rights trial. But as much as he accomplishes in making *something* interesting out of the topic, it's just not quite good enough. The story is a bit convoluted. It depends a little too much on Goldstein's good, but not great, shorthand lessons in intellectual property law. And it depends on quite a few too many great leaps of logic or insight on the part of our hero, Michael Seeley. The book's ambitions are also sort of a mish mash. It's part family drama, part courtroom drama, part romance, part murder mystery. It's too much of too many things and not enough of any one of them to really make an impression. If I were advising other readers, I'd suggest you wait for it to play on cable, so to speak.