I received this official-looking $1450 “invoice” the other day. I have a European trademark registration pending so at first glance thought I owed this. But looking further, it’s just some stupid scam. Amazing. I bet lots of legal departments just pay it.
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Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and patent attorney in Houston, Texas. He has spoken, lectured and published widely on various areas of libertarian legal theory and on legal topics such as intellectual property law and international law. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023) (see below), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), and International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020).
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