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by chapill 3032 days ago
This is hating the player, not the game. The only way to win is not to play. Relocate to a country with no software patents. I hear Estonia is great. Do all your filing online. Be a remote working foreign contractor for your own company :P
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Moving to Estonia just to avoid software patent trolls is an extreme case of letting the tail wag the dog.
50% of the companies in the US incorporate in Delaware. Is that also tail wagging the dog?

https://www.delawareinc.com/corporation/

One doesn't move to Delaware simply to register a company there.
No, because there are very good reasons to incorporate in Delaware. I would infinitely prefer to try to sell or get investment in a Delaware C corp than I would in an Estonian company, even if it didn't involve living in Estonia. Getting sued by patent trolls is just such a minor consideration in founding a company, it's not even worth thinking about.
They don't move to Delaware, they just file paperwork there.
If you're still selling to the US, I don't think this would protect you. Your product can be banned anyway.
Your product could be banned, but the sue-er would never collect any money. So, if the sue-er is a patent troll, why would they bother? They don't care about banning competition. They'd burn a lot of money on lawyers for zero income. That's not a fight that they want to pick.
Their gain would be a chance that you pay the fees. Because outside of specific local markets, no small game producer could afford dropping the US market (and possibly US-based delivery systems like Steam, Play, and AppStore) and succeed.
Okay, they ban you, you lose all the US revenue. Then, other companies see that they may get banned as well and lose their revenue, so they give in.
If the company was making 35k/yr operating in the US and you sue for 35k one-time fee, do you think they'd do it?
If you own an Estonian corporation, they can sue you.
Estonia's marketing as an e-nation doesn't live up to the reality.