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Re:Life for a startup on the receiving end of a patent law suit by rfctr on Friday July 19, 2013 @04:43PM (#6072849)
You can move the company. But as long as you make sales in US, you can be blocked from doing business.
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Re:Life for a startup on the receiving end of a patent law suit by chenster on Friday July 19, 2013 @07:24PM (#6073581)
How would they exactly block you from doing business? Unless you have a physical presence, if all your transcations take place online, how would it be different from doing in the US and outside?
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Re:Life for a startup on the receiving end of a patent law suit by rfctr on Saturday July 20, 2013 @08:45AM (#6075046)
It may all look like bits to you, but here's something to think about: I have recently bought an electronic product from a company in a different country. The payment processor though added Canadian HST tax on top of the purchase. Processor did two things: it figured out I'm in Canada so the HST tax may apply, and it knew that the product was actually sold via a reseller, which also registered in Canada, which made HST mandatory.

You see? The online purchases are not as unregulated as they may seem. There are laws about them, and the online companies do follow those laws.

Trying to sell banned service to US customer is not much easier than trying to sell banned food. One may try but the interested troll only need to send a cease-and-desist to yet another payment processor one uses to sell to US, and the service is on square one, again.

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Re:Life for a startup on the receiving end of a patent law suit by rfctr on Friday July 19, 2013 @08:06PM (#6073724)
Court order will prohibit the sales. The decision will be delivered to whatever representatives the company has on US soil, as well as to customs, payment processors and whatnot.
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Re:Life for a startup on the receiving end of a patent law suit by bcoates on Friday July 19, 2013 @08:48PM (#6073850)
Customs will seize your domain name without warning or following any particular legal process. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/members-congress-deman...
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Re:Life for a startup on the receiving end of a patent law suit by studentrob on Friday July 19, 2013 @09:55PM (#6074004)
I don't see anything in that article about the domain being seized as a result of a patent lawsuit.

Let's assume that's happened before anyway..

What if you use a foreign domain name?

What are the non-US based methods of receiving payment online?

Are there any viable foreign servers that are fast enough to service the US but whose country does not have patent agreements with the US?

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Re:Life for a startup on the receiving end of a patent law suit by cpursley on Friday July 19, 2013 @05:38PM (#6073110)
Sure, but nobody's going to take the time to do so.
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Re:Life for a startup on the receiving end of a patent law suit by rfctr on Friday July 19, 2013 @11:39PM (#6074241)
Right. The troll was just bluffing when he was saying: "You’ll stay in business and license from us, or you’ll go out of business".

He's just joking, right? Surely he has neither tools nor intentions to put someone out of business?

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