This blogpost is in reference to Drew Crutis' battle with patents and how you should not let yourself get schemed by them. He fought a patent troll by the name of Gooseberry. He explains how patent trolls have very vague patents and weaponize their lack of specificity to sue people and gain money.
Gooseberry apparently had the patent on e-mailing news releases. Curtis' company Fark deals with news releases and was sued along with other bigger companies like Yahoo. When he asked thee bigger companies to team up they simply decided to settle rather than go to court.
Drew Curtis decided to go to court because he knew that he did not infringe on any patents and therefore should not have to pay a patent troll.
He says that if you can, don’t fight the patent, rather fight the infringement. He advises to make it clear at the very beginning that you either have no money or are willing to spend it only in court fighting the troll. He advises this because the patent trolls most of the times use court as a threat and probably would not want to settle in court themselves as they could lose.
They are paid on contingency so you should tell them you will annoy them until they stop. He says they cause more economic damage than terrorists and so you shouldn’t negotiate with them! I liked this blogpost a lot because Drew Curtis stuck to his beliefs in doing what is right rather than what is easy.
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