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This is probably not a viable strategy for any startup without significant financial resources and time to dedicate to it. From the post itself: > It is tempt
by arbuge 7y ago
This is probably not a viable strategy for any startup without significant financial resources and time to dedicate to it.
From the post itself:
> It is tempting to settle with patent trolls if you can settle for less than litigation costs. Our portfolio companies do it all the time and it is rational behavior.
That precisely is the trolls' business model - make settling with them the rational way to go. The system is broken and needs to be fixed so that this business model is no longer viable.
- snarf21 7y agoExactly, we need legal changes. The changes aren't even hard, just require enough political will.
- metalliqaz 7y agoThe patent system is broken but SV is full of goons who made billions off of "do it on a computer" patents and they will never allow their cash cows to be legislated away. Patent trolls are really bad but they are just one symptom of a system that is built on huge patent portfolios. The big companies are just as bad IMHO.
- throwaway35784 7y agoI'm teaching myself the law and have assertively put a bully attorney in his place. Like all people bullies go after easy targets. Don't be one. Make it cost them more than it's worth to fight you.