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by ntoskrnl 1457 days ago
What would the damages have been had you lost? I'm being called by a persistent "insurance" salesman that I'd love to take to the cleaners
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I think it is one of those things that would theoretically have been billions of dollars (hundreds of millions of invites have gone out and the statutory damages were on a per infraction basis), but practically speaking something very similar to a patent troll, so maybe in the $5-10m range? I'm just guessing. We are a later stage company.
I didn't know the damages were statutory - I guess I should look that up myself. In your case, was it a class action suit? If not, I wonder how they had standing to sue on behalf of thousands/millions of other users.