Yup, that made my day. Pity not more lawsuits end like this. -- Cédric
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Edward Gabriel Moraru < [email protected]> wrote: > how about this? > News aggregator Fark, targeted by a company owning a patent covering > "news releases", settled its case for $0. Fark proprietor Drew Curtis > writes about what sounds like an unusually callous and disinterested > shakedown: > "The patent troll realized we were going to fight them instead of > settle, so they asked for our best offer. I said how about you get > nothing and drop the lawsuit? They accepted." > > from http://www.fark.com/comments/blog235 > > the mind boggles > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Kirk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> The big company simply needs to throw enough lawyers and countersuits at > you so that it becomes financially untenable to continue pursuing any > litigation. At the very least, they'll keep you crippled with legal fees > just long enough for you to go bankrupt, then their problem is solved. > > > > Gee, I've never seen that happen ;-) 'cept for the time when the small > company I was working for was being sued. Legal was ~400k / month and this > went on for close to a year before the company finally went bankrupt. But to > be honest, it wasn't the suite that bankrupted to company.... > > > > Kirk > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
