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East Texas? Should be thrown out after the recent Supreme Court ruling, unless Mycroft actually has an office there. Apple went to the trouble of closing their

East Texas? Should be thrown out after the recent Supreme Court ruling, unless Mycroft actually has an office there. Apple went to the trouble of closing their stores in East Texas for that exact reason: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/22/apple-closing-stores-in-eastern-district-texas/ https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/22/apple-closing-stores-in... Did this troll not get the memo?

tim-- 7y ago
Interesting that this is the same area that Samsung spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to 'bribe' the local community with feel good public relations, like building ice skating rinks and donating monitors to local public schools. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40021491 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40021491
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago
  I wonder why they would do that. I'm sure they just love the community.
- nothrabannosir 7y ago
  NPR's This American Life and Planet Money had an episode on this phenomenon as well. I think it was: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/... (2011) follow up: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/496/when-patents-attack-part-two https://www.thisamericanlife.org/496/when-patents-attack-par... (2013)
gwd 7y ago
The article mentions this: > It looks like Tod “accidentally” filed in the wrong venue so after we’ve changed the venue ( and recovered our attorney fees from Tod for the required effort). So perhaps the troll did miss the memo; perhaps they were hoping that most defendants would miss the memo.
skrebbel 7y ago
If you sell digital goods online, then don't you by definition have a presence, sort of, in East Texas?
- ansible 7y ago
  At this point, it may be prudent to just block off that entire district. Can you legally claim "hostile regulatory environment" or something like that for denying service?
  - AJ007 7y ago
    That’s what many companies did for GDPR. Not sure you can do that for patents.
    - imglorp 7y ago
      This is a great idea. Cloudflare, FAANG, etc are a position to seriously mess with mobile services and website traffic to all of East Texas. They're free drop service for any legal jurisdiction they want, right? The "regulatory environment" there might not withstand the public pressure of those services getting denied. Ie, if its citizens felt serious pain of companies refusing to do business there, maybe they'd drop the rules aiding the trolls.

tim-- 7y ago

Interesting that this is the same area that Samsung spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to 'bribe' the local community with feel good public relations, like building ice skating rinks and donating monitors to local public schools. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40021491 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40021491

WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago
I wonder why they would do that. I'm sure they just love the community.
nothrabannosir 7y ago
NPR's This American Life and Planet Money had an episode on this phenomenon as well. I think it was: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/... (2011) follow up: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/496/when-patents-attack-part-two https://www.thisamericanlife.org/496/when-patents-attack-par... (2013)

gwd 7y ago

The article mentions this: > It looks like Tod “accidentally” filed in the wrong venue so after we’ve changed the venue ( and recovered our attorney fees from Tod for the required effort). So perhaps the troll did miss the memo; perhaps they were hoping that most defendants would miss the memo.

skrebbel 7y ago

If you sell digital goods online, then don't you by definition have a presence, sort of, in East Texas?

ansible 7y ago
At this point, it may be prudent to just block off that entire district. Can you legally claim "hostile regulatory environment" or something like that for denying service?
- AJ007 7y ago
  That’s what many companies did for GDPR. Not sure you can do that for patents.
  - imglorp 7y ago
    This is a great idea. Cloudflare, FAANG, etc are a position to seriously mess with mobile services and website traffic to all of East Texas. They're free drop service for any legal jurisdiction they want, right? The "regulatory environment" there might not withstand the public pressure of those services getting denied. Ie, if its citizens felt serious pain of companies refusing to do business there, maybe they'd drop the rules aiding the trolls.