Goldstein displays the keen eye and sure hand of a gifted writer. – The Wall Street Journal
Paul Goldstein is a writer, lawyer and teacher. He is the author of two novels on intellectual property themes, Errors and Omissions (Doubleday 2006) and A Patent Lie (forthcoming, Doubleday 2008). He is also the author of two general interest non-fiction books, Copyright’s Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox (Stanford University Press, Revised Edition 2003) and the recently-published Intellectual Property: The Tough New Realities that Could Make or Break Your Business (Penguin Portfolio 2007). Mr. Goldstein has written two leading treatises on copyright law – the four-volume Goldstein on Copyright (Aspen Publishers Third Edition 2005) and the one-volume International Copyright: Principles, Law and Practice (Oxford University Press 2001) – as well as four widely-adopted law school textbooks. He is the Lillick Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and is Of Counsel to the law firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP.
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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 Paul Goldstein’s widely praised debut novel, 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.
