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by viraptor 3030 days ago
If you're still selling to the US, I don't think this would protect you. Your product can be banned anyway.
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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.