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Despite the higher tax burden, I ultimately decided to incorporate here. Why? There were a lot of reasons, but the two biggest ones were: 1) I didn't want to worry about patent trolls 2) I didn't want to worry about net neutrality effecting my first users (we are starting local)
It seems to me that the legal system in the US is largely broken, and that just about anyone can be sued if only you find the right grounds. Being sued and defending yourself is enormously expensive which is what patent trolls exploit. Why not use this offensively against patent trolls? Find all sorts of ways to take them to court, the American legal seems to have plenty of opportunities in that regard. There are som…
It's weird that 40-45% of Congress is attorneys.
> Thanks to the efforts of Lee Cheng and his legal team, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a trial court to reconsider its earlier denial of Newegg’s request for attorneys’ fees and costs in the patent infringement lawsuit brought on by SUS. Wait, so what did the trial court conclude? Are they making the troll pay or not? I feel like I'm missing something? Also, isn't it worrying that they had to appeal in…
IANAL: The trial court had found for Newegg on the infringement case, but had not taken the additional step of awarding attorney's fees to Newegg. The appeals court has now recommended that the trial court take that additional step. The appeals court doesn't have time to wade through reams of legal invoices. Actually the trial court may have been trying to avoid that as well, but now it has no choice. It's my impress…
[1] http://patentlyo.com/patent/2014/04/discretion-attorney-liti..., by patent law professor Dennis Crouch.
This is an interview with Paul R. Ryan, former Forbes CEO and now the guy behind Acacia Research, the firm behind the Newegg patent law suit. Was surprised he is not as slimy as I expected: http://vimeo.com/57723958
Newegg are cheapskates. The publicity from doing this pays far more than the money they'd save by settling with patent trolls.
It seems to me that the legal system in the US is largely broken, and that just about anyone can be sued if only you find the right grounds. Being sued and defending yourself is enormously expensive which is what patent trolls exploit. Why not use this offensively against patent trolls? Find all sorts of ways to take them to court, the American legal seems to have plenty of opportunities in that regard. There are som…
It's weird that 40-45% of Congress is attorneys.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
IANAL: The trial court had found for Newegg on the infringement case, but had not taken the additional step of awarding attorney's fees to Newegg. The appeals court has now recommended that the trial court take that additional step. The appeals court doesn't have time to wade through reams of legal invoices. Actually the trial court may have been trying to avoid that as well, but now it has no choice. It's my impress…
Living in a country where the default is that the loser pays (within reason), I must wonder: Why is discouraging litigation a bad thing?
I.E. the plot of the show Leverage.