CLOSING CASE CHAPTER 10

1. Huffman’s gut told him to litigate aggressively. But do you think that was a

smart move?

From my analysis Huffman’s move wasn’t smart. First of all, in submitting his litigations

on copyrights infringement he needs to consider that justification through solid evidence

is important. He should have submitted documents showing that indeed his copyrights

were stolen. Also, he failed to do proper screening of the loopholes that had would have

led to his copyrights being stolen. His wrong choices of handling this case made it to

stretch to around 2 years without being solved.

2. Should he settle? Or should he press the case to the judge?

He should settle the case. This is because pressing the case to the judge would involve

much costs spent again given that he had to pay the Attorney in the $200,000 spent

earlier. Secondly, much time can be wasted in following up on the case since he hasn’t

submitted solid evidence to defend his claim. Therefore, he needs to meet Alfini given

that they had worked together earlier for negotiation purposes and thus they agree on

the cost of damages to be paid for the case to be settle. Also, this would be a cheaper

and a faster means for solving the case.

3. Put yourself in Hoffman’s place. What would you do?

The main problem Hoffman’s case is that he did things in rush. So, I would sit with Alfini

since I have previously worked with him and also that the case looks like a personal

issue to understand the stealing my company’s copyright and trademarks. In addition,

we would agree on payment of damages based on the damages caused after careful
analysis on who was on the wrong side. Also, this process is cheaper since it saves

time as compared to pressing the case to the court which has lengthy procedures. If

disagreement persists I would propose for mediation process so that a mediator can

hear our complaints hence make a just decision in line with the law.