maddox Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> GITRDUN Wrote:> --------------------------------------------------> -----> > Turned out the *sshole didnt even> > have a patent but it cost us $20k to defend> > ourselves in court and have it thrown out. He> was> > bluffing to the very end.> >> You would be able to countersue for the costs of> defending the non-infringement, right? Did you> seek any damages?Yes, could have countered and should have IMO but my father who owns the company didnt want to. The government was supposedly going to go after him for falsely claiming to have a patent but nothjng ever came of it.The big corporations just walk right over many small competitors with patents by tying up lawsuits in the courts for years and years and running up gross amounts of legal fees for the small patent owner trying to sue for infringement. Just like everything else in this country the ones with the $$ can get away with more than you or i can. A patent is only worth however much money someone has to defend it with.