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Patent Trolls Target Small East Texas Companies
An anonymous reader writes "In a sign that patent trolls are getting desperate to keep their cases in East Texas — long known as the friendliest venue for their claims — some have taken to suing tiny, no-name companies that are run by East Texas residents. The hope is that, if at least one defendant is located in East Texas, the judge will keep the entire case there. Nate Neel, a Longview, Texas resident with a small open source software company called CitiWare, was sued by Bedrock Computer Technologies in June despite (he claims) having no customers or other meaningful operations of any kind. In response, Mr. Neel has posted a strongly worded letter to Bedrock's attorneys on his Web site. It will be interesting to see how East Texas judges respond to this abuse of process perpetrated against their own residents."
How is it that assholes like this aren't IP Banned?
They could remove this post. It's illegal in my country and would grant the poster some months in jail. Isn't it illegal in the USA?
I feel sad for you that you don't live in a country that respects free speech.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Copy-pasta trolling is guaranteed right in the U.S.
Seriously though, while I find that post atrocious, outlawing free speech would be far worse. Your right to not be offended does not outweigh my right to speak my mind.
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