Workarounds are much easier than people expect. I was once pushed by a patent troll who wanted me to pay for some patent that I was violating. My lawyers told m

Workarounds are much easier than people expect. I was once pushed by a patent troll who wanted me to pay for some patent that I was violating. My lawyers told me that I had to pay and advised me to negotiate. (Lawyers seem to always look for the easy way out.) But my brother, who developed our site, spent some time looking at the patent and figured out a way to do what we needed without violating the patent. You can't give up because someone has a patent. Cleverness always wins.