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The Patent Scam Intro
Austin Meyer
Austin Meyer, developer of the X-Plane flight simulator, explains how he was sued by a patent troll over a trivial claim about an app's license server. He walks through how the shell-company litigation works and why ignoring the suit makes things worse.
HN commenters pass it around as an eye-opening first-hand account of patent trolling and the Texas courts that favor it.
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