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A crazy legal issue in the tech sector, especially in the U.S. 

I heard about this case for several years. The creator of the realistic flight simulator X-Plane got sued by a publicly-traded patent troll corporation. The patent: looking up purchase verification in an app store to allow access to an app. It covers many absurd lawsuits that costed millions, including a patent on rounding numbers, and therefore making the usage of Linux an infringement.

The X-Plane creator made a documentary now. The patent system here in the U.S. needs some improvement. 

<https://www.amazon.com/Patent-Scam-Austin-Meyer/dp/B0736G66P8/>

I remember hearing about that! Will give it a watch.

<@U9UKZTV7V> Thankfully it looks like some progress has been made in 2017, the year this documentary was made.

A ruling was passed to where cases have to be tried in defendant's district, not the litigator's.

<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TC_Heartland_LLC_v._Kraft_Foods_Group_Brands_LLC>

A sketchy aspect of patent trolling in the US is a lot of the cases were heard in East Texas which is a patent troll haven, and judges are fathers of the litigating lawyers. Not anymore thankfully.

Harry Reid and other politicians allegedly tried to prevent addressing the issue.