“Our last patent troll we settled for $10,000. If you think about that, it’s barely more than 10 hours of lawyer time.”

VentureBeat has an interesting post titled Life360 founder calls patent holder ‘Piece of sh*t.’ Lawsuit ensues


Within the post, StarTrek as prior art is invoked, and the dreary exercise of retaining counsel is mentioned:


“I could show them a Star Trek episode from the 1960s” that had a similar concept, [Chris] Hulls said.

Thus his response:

Dear Piece of Shit,

We are currently in the process of retaining counsel and investigating this matter. As a result, we will not be able to meet your Friday deadline. After reviewing this matter with our counsel, we will provide a prompt response.