[hmahncke]

If you are a Swedish company, and your file patents in Sweden, and then you sell a product in the US, a company can file a patent infringement suit in the US saying that your product infringes on their US patent. Your Swedish patents aren't relevant. The fact that you are selling your product in the US matters.

How this might apply to a SaaS company is an interesting question. If all the business is legally conducted in Sweden, perhaps there would be no US IP issues. But if any portion of the business in conducted in the US, that portion can be shut down if their is a patent issue in the US.

[trussi]

Good point. My brain is hardwired to think product == SaaS product. So I'm only referring to using this strategy for a SaaS product.

I think it works with a SaaS product, assuming you keep all business related stuff (Domain registration, servers, business incorporation, bank accounts, etc) in another country (i.e. Sweden).

I just don't know which countries would be best...