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by GordonS
2138 days ago
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> FWIW I've been sued by large companies in the past and successfully gained the upper hand every time. The trick is to know how to enter that battle. OT, but this sounds very interesting! Have you by chance blogged about these experiences, or posted them on HN? I'd love to read more! |
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https://jacquesmattheij.com/when-crisis-hits/
https://jacquesmattheij.com/my-brush-with-a-patent-troll/
The most interesting one isn't mentioned in either of those, in a nutshell, one arm of Logitech sued us for Trademark infringement because our 'mascot' Chico looked too much like their camera. At the same time another arm of Logitech was making all kinds of ouvertures.
I played the one against the other and ended up with a super good relationship with Logitech upper management (board, two of the directors and founders). I guess they liked the fact that we didn't roll over just like that because they were a 500 pound gorilla. In the end the relationship worked out in our favor, Logitech did invest in a company called Spotlife and when that went belly up they sent us the traffic for nearly a decade.
Finally, I had a run-in with KPN, at the time the largest telco in nl (probably still are) and forced them to pay 300K, a lot of money at the time.
There were some other lawsuits but with smaller parties. We won all of them, mostly because if there was a chance of losing a suit we would simply find another way to solve them, preferably by standing next to much larger people who would take care of the problem long before we had to get worried.