INTRODUCTION –
Examination of witnesses or cross-examination has always been a
favourite topic for books and screenplays. A downside of this
extravaganza, which involves sharp-witted questioning, nail-biting
suspense and awe laden voice modulations, is the fact that most of
them are written to support criminal litigation, backdropping a
story. Hence, more often than not, in popular culture, this has led
the idea of cross-examination to, be associated with either a John
Grisham style murder mystery or the defining scene from Legally
Blonde, with no in-between. Without a doubt, the significance of a
witness' cross-examination is so well rooted in criminal
litigation that the same in commercial matters are paid no heed to.
In 2014 however, viewers started gaining interest in the world of
Intellectual Property (IP) litigation when the show Silicon Valley
released worldwide, showcasing a gripping account of how an App
battles it out to save a data compression algorithm
