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This is hating the player, not the game. The only way to win is not to play. Relocate to a country with no software patents. I hear Estonia is great. Do all you
by chapill 9y ago
This is hating the player, not the game. The only way to win is not to play. Relocate to a country with no software patents. I hear Estonia is great. Do all your filing online. Be a remote working foreign contractor for your own company :P
- viraptor 9y agoIf you're still selling to the US, I don't think this would protect you. Your product can be banned anyway.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoYour product could be banned, but the sue-er would never collect any money. So, if the sue-er is a patent troll, why would they bother? They don't care about banning competition. They'd burn a lot of money on lawyers for zero income. That's not a fight that they want to pick.
- viraptor 9y agoTheir gain would be a chance that you pay the fees. Because outside of specific local markets, no small game producer could afford dropping the US market (and possibly US-based delivery systems like Steam, Play, and AppStore) and succeed.
- subroutine 9y agoIf the company was making 35k/yr operating in the US and you sue for 35k one-time fee, do you think they'd do it?
- gowld 9y agoIf you own an Estonian corporation, they can sue you.
- oh_sigh 9y agoOkay, they ban you, you lose all the US revenue. Then, other companies see that they may get banned as well and lose their revenue, so they give in.
- ericd 9y agoMoving to Estonia just to avoid software patent trolls is an extreme case of letting the tail wag the dog.
- chapill 9y ago50% of the companies in the US incorporate in Delaware. Is that also tail wagging the dog? https://www.delawareinc.com/corporation/ https://www.delawareinc.com/corporation/
- gowld 9y agoThey don't move to Delaware, they just file paperwork there.
- crusso 9y agoOne doesn't move to Delaware simply to register a company there.
- chapill 9y agoRelocate the company, not yourself. I expected the part of my post about working remotely to highlight that.
- ericd 9y agoNo, because there are very good reasons to incorporate in Delaware. I would infinitely prefer to try to sell or get investment in a Delaware C corp than I would in an Estonian company, even if it didn't involve living in Estonia. Getting sued by patent trolls is just such a minor consideration in founding a company, it's not even worth thinking about.
- twfarland 9y agoEstonia's marketing as an e-nation doesn't live up to the reality.