"Previously, [the Patent Office] helped the football team by giving them a monopoly on the word and promising to go after others who violated that monopoly. It won't any longer. Nonetheless, commentators continue to describe the situation in exactly the opposite way."

"Placating these men is a rational choice, a form of self-defense to protect against setting off an aggressor. But to male bystanders, it often looks like a warm welcome."

"'The kid chose jail,' Glassberg says. 'How can I compete with that?'"