According to a reliable source, the top copyright lawyer of Apple will shortly exit the Cupertinian mothership. The question arises, as is normal with such high-profile departures:  did he jump, or was he pushed?

The forthcoming departure of Richard “Chip” Lutton was reported on Tuesday by Reuters, quoting the ever-loquacious “sources familiar with the situation.”

If Reuters is right and Lutton is, certainly, about to disappear, a fight can be made that he might have been an injured party of current copyright-violation settlement of Apple with Nokia, the ending of a copyright battle that . . . → Read More: Chief Patent Lawyer of Apple Exits