Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game
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Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game
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Re: Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game
#2Trying to find other companies under the same threat is a great approach. In a similar situation, this allowed my company to fight a patent troll and share costs, so we didn't cave under the, "It'll cost us this much in legal fees anyway" argument.
Re: Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game
#3Of course these trolls have no face or names. Hope someone can track the actual owners down.
Re: Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game
#4Pretty obvious patent trolling if they're only going for this rather smalltime developer and none of the high profile F2P game developers and big time game developers releasing AAA games with a premium currency.
Re: Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game
#5How is the price settled upon? I mean, why ask $35k specifically? Why not 3.5k or 350k?
Re: Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game
#6Trying to find other companies under the same threat is a great approach. In a similar situation, this allowed my company to fight a patent troll and share costs, so we didn't cave under the, "It'll cost us this much in legal fees anyway" argument.
This is the strategy that helped defeat the patent on podcasting. Also I would contact the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Re: Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game
#7Of course these trolls have no face or names. Hope someone can track the actual owners down.
http://gtxcorp.com/
Appears to be this company. Or they're using this company's name, but that would be wildly stupid of them to attempt if they want any chance at all of winning (which they already don't seem to have -- way too much prior art).
Re: Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game
#8Trying to find other companies under the same threat is a great approach. In a similar situation, this allowed my company to fight a patent troll and share costs, so we didn't cave under the, "It'll cost us this much in legal fees anyway" argument.
While it doesn't help in this case (since there is already a looming legal threat from an NPE), you can buy patent troll insurance now: https://www.rpxcorp.com/. This covers your legal fees in the event of litigation, which can scare off a patent troll who just wants a hit-and-run settlement.
Re: Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game
#9Of course these trolls have no face or names. Hope someone can track the actual owners down.
http://gtxcorp.com/ Appears to be this company. Or they're using this company's name, but that would be wildly stupid of them to attempt if they want any chance at all of winning (which they already don't seem to have -- way too much prior art).
Specifically says at the bottom of the post that it's not:
> "As far as I can tell, the guys shaking us down are NOT these guys in particular: http://www.gtxcorp.com/"
Re: Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game
#10How is the price settled upon? I mean, why ask $35k specifically? Why not 3.5k or 350k?
350k is too high a price to shake down from small companies. 3.5k won't recoup enough value.