The investment that didn't happen
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#2Fantastic to see Manu put his neck on the line for a company that isn't even a part of K9's portfolio, but that he really believed in.
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#3Hard to imagine the pain they must have gone through by having to shut down what they built. A few minutes of downtime on my site makes me go crazy, I cannot imagine having told to shut it down!
I hope the modista guys do well in their new venture and people who prey on other smaller startups in the name of patents are cowards, they don't deserve any respect. I know which website I'll never be visiting, I just don't "like" the people behind it anymore.
And I think Google acquired them to save themselves. They are better off acquiring them than having to face a similar lawsuit which would run into millions of dollars. The acquisition conversation must have been:
Acquire or get served!
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#4A related discussion on HN from yesterday (about a Forbes article that linked to this blog post): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2494461
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#5Feeling very sorry for Arlo and AJ. All the best to them in their next venture.
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#6Hard to imagine the pain they must have gone through by having to shut down what they built. A few minutes of downtime on my site makes me go crazy, I cannot imagine having told to shut it down! I hope the modista guys do well in their new venture and people who prey on other smaller startups in the name of patents are cowards, they don't deserve any respect. I know which website I'll never be visiting, I just don't…
I know which website I'll never be visiting, I just don't "like" the people behind it anymore.
Google? I mean they didn't buy like.com without knowing about this lawsuit.
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#7Hard to imagine the pain they must have gone through by having to shut down what they built. A few minutes of downtime on my site makes me go crazy, I cannot imagine having told to shut it down! I hope the modista guys do well in their new venture and people who prey on other smaller startups in the name of patents are cowards, they don't deserve any respect. I know which website I'll never be visiting, I just don't…
I know which website I'll never be visiting, I just don't "like" the people behind it anymore. Google? I mean they didn't buy like.com without knowing about this lawsuit.
Na... I love Google.... :)
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#8"Apparently a corporation can only be represented by an attorney in a litigation and cannot be represented by the founders or officers, even if the company cannot afford counsel."
Does this seem really out of line to anyone else?
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#9"Apparently a corporation can only be represented by an attorney in a litigation and cannot be represented by the founders or officers, even if the company cannot afford counsel." Does this seem really out of line to anyone else?
At first glance, it does seem unfair.
However, I'm assuming that this law was put into place because
(a) Most non-lawyers can't do a good legal job and don't know the law (or loopholes). So they are likely to do themselves harm.
(b) I think that verdicts can be reversed if it is proven that counsel was unqualified. This means that the case will need to be retried with a more qualified lawyer.
That said, I think that judges can make exceptions in some cases and let a non-lawyer represent themselves.I'm assuming that this may be true for a founder representing his/her company as well.
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#10Was there a reason that these guys hadn't gone through the process to file for a patent themselves, even as a defensive mechanism? I suppose their suggestion that there was a lot of prior art would have made that a non-starter for them as well.
Anyone that suggests that software patents are good for innovation is clearly naive.