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Joe, Ignore this if you want, but - if you made $30k on the settlement, and legal fees on a reasonable case with a lawyer who will insist on doing discovery an

• SwellJoe 17y ago
  Legal fees were about 15k, due to a pre-existing relationship between my publisher and the lawyer. It never went to trial, however. It was settled rather quickly. It was a very clear case, and the companies legal staff pretty much just made some grouchy noises and then came back with a settlement offer. Yes, it counts as a win for me. It shut down the violations, and it cost an evil company time and money. Had it been a less egregiously nasty company, I probably would have been satisfied with a C&D. The violation in my case cost me very little (the materials in question were already available for free on the web, and their products were not competing with mine). So, maybe my own past experience, and the specifics of that experience, makes me more trigger-happy on the subject than is prudent.
  • imajes 17y ago
    Yeah. 15K to get out with a pre-trial deal, doing not much more than send letters back and forth, some discovery and agreeing a settlement deal. scratches head and wonders why he's not a lawyer
    • SwellJoe 17y ago
      The only lawyers I know wish they were building tech startups. Might be a symptom of the culture here in the valley.