[chapill]

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

[ericd]

Moving to Estonia just to avoid software patent trolls is an extreme case of letting the tail wag the dog.

[chapill]

50% of the companies in the US incorporate in Delaware. Is that also tail wagging the dog?

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

[crusso]

One doesn't move to Delaware simply to register a company there.

[ericd]

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.

[gowld]

They don't move to Delaware, they just file paperwork there.

[viraptor]

If you're still selling to the US, I don't think this would protect you. Your product can be banned anyway.

[AnimalMuppet]

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.

[viraptor]

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.

[oh_sigh]

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.

[subroutine]

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?

[gowld]

If you own an Estonian corporation, they can sue you.

[twfarland]

Estonia's marketing as an e-nation doesn't live up to the reality.