Brown Motion

To many an unaware individual of the readership the title might appear to be rather bizzare. It is. I for one had to do some quality research on the subject (the Langot) in this case. See the whole effort stemmed from a news article in a reputable financial newspaper formerly owned by a dubious person of Australian origin (dubious applicable to the person's conduct and not so much his origins). Well so much for clues on what paper this was. The (news) article in this case was about a brand called Lululemon suing another competitor in the retail clothing space for a patent on a Yoga Pant. The whole thing sounded so hilarious that I had to read it with much anticipation over tea. The tea was good, the anticipation was about what exactly somebody called Lululemon could possibly sue for? Turns out that this is about how a pant waist band should look and feel and fold and that it was patentable per the US PTO. Another competitor had the nerve or whatever it takes these days, t...