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Life for a startup on the receiving end of a patent law suit

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Re: Life for a startup on the receiving end of a patent law suit

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So far I would say Newegg takes the cake - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/newegg-nukes-corp...

I've always admired Newegg's efforts on that. I should patronize their business more often.

Exactly! Proud Newegg patronizer here, especially because of their standing up to the trolls.

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Lately my group of friends have been discussing the most underhanded ways to get PAE's to bugger off. Nothing serious, but it's interesting to think about how one of these PAE lawyers would react if you told him his daughter's name and the school she goes to. It kinda surprises me that none of these extortion cases have escalated to that sort of thing. When someone puts 5-10 years of sweat, blood and tears into a com…

> how one of these PAE lawyers would react if you told him his daughter's name and the school she goes to

They would make sure you're behind bars in no time.

Re: Life for a startup on the receiving end of a patent law suit

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Lately my group of friends have been discussing the most underhanded ways to get PAE's to bugger off. Nothing serious, but it's interesting to think about how one of these PAE lawyers would react if you told him his daughter's name and the school she goes to. It kinda surprises me that none of these extortion cases have escalated to that sort of thing. When someone puts 5-10 years of sweat, blood and tears into a com…

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Re: Life for a startup on the receiving end of a patent law suit

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Lately my group of friends have been discussing the most underhanded ways to get PAE's to bugger off. Nothing serious, but it's interesting to think about how one of these PAE lawyers would react if you told him his daughter's name and the school she goes to. It kinda surprises me that none of these extortion cases have escalated to that sort of thing. When someone puts 5-10 years of sweat, blood and tears into a com…

> how one of these PAE lawyers would react if you told him his daughter's name and the school she goes to They would make sure you're behind bars in no time.

What if 'you' are an anonymous remailer service account and a bitcoin address? It would be amusing if patent trolling got bad enough to force startups to operate on the black market.

After all, what's the ROI on legitimacy if the state can't protect you from banditry?

Re: Life for a startup on the receiving end of a patent law suit

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Lately my group of friends have been discussing the most underhanded ways to get PAE's to bugger off. Nothing serious, but it's interesting to think about how one of these PAE lawyers would react if you told him his daughter's name and the school she goes to. It kinda surprises me that none of these extortion cases have escalated to that sort of thing. When someone puts 5-10 years of sweat, blood and tears into a com…

Witness one Josiah Bacon, at patent attorney who travelled the country extorting settlements from small dentists using false teeth...

http://99percentinvisible.org/post/16570523049/episode-46-vu...

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