[cestith]

This has nothing to do with patents. They're not trolling, which is generally registering something and sitting on it waiting to sue. Sega is a practicing entity with a copyright on a game that's actively being sold.

Someone's made a mistake in this DMCA complaint and Sega's being difficult to reach to resolve it. It's nothing like patent trolling.

[garyfirestorm]

> it’s nothing like patent trolling

Sega has army of lawyers and probably massive budget for court fees vs a small 2 people run shop who are actually not infringing anything and don’t have any of those resources. You get where this is going?

[vimacs2]

Let's not redefine "patent trolling" as bad thing big bad company does. This was clearly a mistake borne from the outsourcing of brand protection onto a firm that clearly is not the greatest at their job.

Thankfully, somebody in SEGA has responded and it should be soon resolved.

[burnished]

I thought your stereotypical patent troll wasn't a firm with access to top notch legal resources, just some people slinging enough shit that eventually it stuck? This would be pretty firmly different, right?

[rhino369]

That depends who you ask, but there are two types of trolls. The first, as you describe, basically extort small settlements out of companies using garbage patents--the classic example being the guys who sued small businesses for using a fax machine.

The second are non-practicing entities that buy at least half-way decent portfolios for cheap and then sue big businesses for big settlements or big jury verdicts. Their lawyers can be very good.

[cestith]

It has nothing to do with patents. It's not a non-practicing entity making a claim against big targets hoping for a windfall. It's probably not even intentional from Sega themselves - people make mistakes, even lawyers.

Yes, it involves legal paperwork and the claim is empty. So why not call it a MAGA election suit? It has two things in common with those.