It's for this reason I'm abstaining from opening up any company in the US and sticking to Europe until the patent trolls are reined in. I can imagine many forei

It's for this reason I'm abstaining from opening up any company in the US and sticking to Europe until the patent trolls are reined in. I can imagine many foreign-born entrepreneurs are now taking the same approach, especially as the number of lawsuits appears to be increasing (800 vs. 2,900 small firms sued in 2005 [0]) with a further ~100,000 receiving letters from patent trolls demanding payment in a single year.[0] [0] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/op-ed-how-patent-trolls-doomed-themselves-by-targeting-main-street/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/op-ed-how-patent-...