Unfortunately I'm gearing up to have to deal with a similar situation. There's a patent troll, Treehouse Avatar Technologies that started sending out threats of litigation in mass to small game developers earlier this month.
My game company was the recipient of one of these threats, and I decided to go public with it in hopes that other small game developers won't just been intimidated and roll over.
Who knows if they will actually follow through on their litigation threats against me, economically it doesn't make sense, but like Todd's case they could potentially do it just out of spite.
Patent troll stalking indie game developers (as Matt Heaton)
My game company was the recipient of one of these threats, and I decided to go public with it in hopes that other small game developers won't just been intimidated and roll over.
Who knows if they will actually follow through on their litigation threats against me, economically it doesn't make sense, but like Todd's case they could potentially do it just out of spite.
More can be found here:
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2013/07/08/treehouse-targets-indie-studio-threat-patent-infring ement-lawsuit
http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1hvlnb/patent_troll_threatens_small_game_d evelopers/
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