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"then I'll just get to file another Federal lawsuit" — copying stated as the trigger for a federal filing. the "trade secret" line, 20 days after filing a trade-secret misappropriation claim.
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How a tier is assigned.Strong — the statement names a tracked case or dispute and describes filing conduct of the kind the indicators document: repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision, or filing framed as imposing cost on the opponent. Moderate — it bears on litigation conduct or chronology in a tracked dispute, but the case link is tentative or the statement describes something other than the speaker’s own filing behaviour. Context — general commentary with no specific tracked case identified.
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Moderate pattern relevanceThreatened or prospective filing09:10
another one of these degenerates will copy the idea and do it and point it off [= pawn it off] as their own hey then I'll just get to file another Federal lawsuit got a little more free time boys that's why that's why I'm not down here that's why I'm not down here working killing myself every day I'm studying for the bar exam
The speaker names a condition under which he would file — a competitor copying one of his product ideas and passing it off as their own — and calls the response "another Federal lawsuit", the word another indicating a federal action already on file. It is his own prospective filing conduct, not a docket fact and not the opponent's behaviour, which is what distinguishes it from everything else in this slice. The register is sardonic ("got a little more free time boys", then the joke about studying for the bar exam), and that is recorded rather than smoothed over: it is a wry remark, not a formal announcement, and it names no case, court, docket or defendant. Tiered Moderate rather than Strong for exactly that reason — no case is identified in the words themselves, and Threatened or prospective filing is not one of the three core factors. (Tier: Moderate — Threatened or prospective filing)
what I consider it a trade secret my new egg packaging is a trade secret even though as soon as I said that one of you guys are probably going to take pictures of it and post it online
C039's amended complaint pleads, among four counts, "a state-law claim for misappropriation of trade secrets" — and this video, published 20 days after that complaint was filed, contains a running joke about a trade secret, which the uploader chaptered in his own description as 12:14 - tRaDE sEcReTS with mocking capitalisation. Recorded because the vocabulary and the timing are unlikely to be independent, not because the words assert anything: the subject is egg packaging, no case, court or party is named, and nothing about filing conduct is described. Purely contextual. (Tier: Context — No filing-conduct factor)
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3:23-cv-02106 — Tufano v. Levy et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 09:10 researched as bearing on this case: "then I'll just get to file another Federal lawsuit" — copying stated as the trigger for a federal filing.