Reed turned off the TV and headed to his office. Although it was only Saturday, he liked to plan his week. It helped him feel ready for the next day and kept him on track to accomplish what he needed to. As in-house counsel for GS&M Incorporated, every contract—incoming or outbound—went through his department. He prepared and audited the company’s legal reports and drafted the language for anything with a legal ramification from the CEO’s response to a scandal to the privacy policy on their website.
A patent infringement case brought to him by a member of his team was the shark closest to the boat. It seemed a company in Taiwan thought they could copy some of GS&M’s patented chip technology without permission.
Ha, he chuckled to himself. No one who wanted to steal technology would ever a
