Graham Wexler was one of the nation's top patent attorneys. He billed six hundred dollars an hour to argue over invisible software features and aggressively worded trademarks. Then one catastrophic scheduling error changed everything. Now, instead of corporate boardrooms and million-dollar inventions, Graham finds himself defending an alleged murderer in the tiny courthouse of Maple Junction-a place where nobody understands intellectual property law and everyone thinks "prior art" sounds vaguely criminal. As Graham desperately attempts to apply patent litigation strategies to a homicide trial, the courtroom descends into chaos. Objections make no sense, witnesses become confused, and the jury slowly loses the will to live. Things get worse when Graham accidentally refers to the murder weapon as "an unauthorized duplicate product." But beneath the confusion, terrible coffee, and courthouse dysfunction lies a dangerous truth that nobody expected. Not even Graham... especially not the court staff.
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