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"I’m the Zlio.com CEO. If you are one of the sued companies (like us), please contact me by email: channel at berrebi.org.
We need to discuss together"
# The above is not from me, just quoted from the TC comments!
Have you been served yet? You will want a lawyer right away, since the time allowed to respond starts ticking at service. Where are you incorporated, if at all? If you are not incorporated in Delaware, do you have customers in Delaware? If not, did you advertise for customers in Delaware? I read the filing. The person that filed it is really stretching to get Delaware as the place for all the suits. I don't think tha…
I'm not incorporated and haven't thought about Delaware in particular as a place to advertise Voo2do. There are certainly Voo2do users in Delaware (and in most other places in the world).
The only income I've received to date from Voo2do has been donations from people who found it useful. If you consider the cost of the hosting, Voo2do has been a net money loser for me for many years. But it's led to a lot of other great contacts and given me a lot of satisfaction from helping other people.
This looks like potential Prior Art:
http://web.archive.org/web/20011129215921/http://bridalregis...
1. Ignore patents completely and hope for the best.
or
2. Have trouble sleeping, knowing that you might have to spend a large amount of money on a lawsuit that you will probably win anyway.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
A patent is much more valuable if it's upheld in court. I thought that was the idea behind patent trolling: get a bullshit patent, go after a bunch of little guys, try some kind of divide and conquer strategy with them, hope you win and get your bullshit patent upheld. Your patent is now much stronger and more dangerous. Congratulations, you're a litigious douchebag.
I just hope to high heaven that we see more responses like the following: http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/blue-jeans-str...
That's one of the reasons why I wouldn't move to the US and start a business. I think a software company really have only two choices. 1. Ignore patents completely and hope for the best. or 2. Have trouble sleeping, knowing that you might have to spend a large amount of money on a lawsuit that you will probably win anyway.
Ask YC subtopic: Have you ever been the target of a frivolous IP lawsuit? How do you deal with it?
Shimon, sorry to hear this. As soon as you find a good lawyer, I wouldn't worry about it psychologically. This "patent" is total bullshit; the absence of big players such as eBay and Amazon leads me to believe that they are going after easier targets in order to establish a legal precedence so that they may go after the big guys later. You're also in good company. I would take pride in that at the very least.
I was relieved to see this in the comments... "Michael Arrington - July 17th, 2008 at 2:33 am PDT I think literacy needs to become a requirement to get a job at the PTO. Morons."
(Sorry, I could not resist)
I don't blame the patent guys for not reading it. "Man, that sentence said "said" like 487 million times! Pass that thing on, dude."
Stamp of approval here.