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Doubleday
June 2008
On Sale: June 17, 2008
304 pages
ISBN: 0385517181
EAN: 9780385517188
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Non-Fiction
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.
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