needles. after the lawsuits against sellers of silicone breast implants and they bankrupted the dow corning company, they said we don t want to risk a lawsuit. today lawsuits terrorize people. make everything cost more and drive us of good stuff. on the other hand we don t want to ban all lawsuits. some are useful. some provide justice for victims and deter bad companies for bad doctors from doing bad things. how do we get rid of the bad and keep the good? some politicians wanted to cap lawsuits. that has helped lawsuits in a few states but i don t know that is fair. california has a $250,000 on some damages but if a company behaves really whaists bad it should pay more. cap seems arbitrary. i think the best solution is
no circumstances should anymore call this guy s house. here is the phone number. [ laughter ] john: lawyer said, they advised him. he decided not to take me up on that so it worked out for him. john: you fought this suit. they dropped it. what happened about six months in, my strategy was basically to flip the playbook. i started doing being really annoying and really obnoxious, so when it came time to file for discovery. we filed instantly and show it s evidence of infringement. one of other things, we dug around and found the names of ten individuals that may or may not been related of the ownership of the company. that was the next thing we were going to pierce the corporate vail and go after these people. they blinked. they called up out of the blue.
dow corning company, they said we don t want to risk a lawsuit. today lawsuits terrorize people. make everything cost more and drive us of good stuff. on the other hand we don t want to ban all lawsuits. some are useful. some provide justice for victims and deter bad companies for bad doctors from doing bad things. how do we get rid of the bad and keep the good? some politicians wanted to cap lawsuits. that has helped lawsuits in a few states but i don t know that is fair. california has a $250,000 on some damages but if a company behaves really whaists bad it should pay more. cap seems arbitrary. i think the best solution is loser pay. that means if i sue you and lose i have to pay your legal fees. america is one of the only countries where i can sue you and lose and go ahead and sue
something. but then they claim it holds a patented on something that you sell. let s ask someone that did get sued. drew, what happened? so basically i had a patent lawyer file a lawsuit. they went after me. patents troll. john: that is what they are called? they are shell companies that go and purchase patents. they look around and try to find people who are doing something similar and sue them trying to get a settlement out of the deal. john: they don t produce anything, but they got the patent. so you were sued along with yahoo and aol, tech crunch and others? that s right. john: by a company called goose berry natural resources? it s a random company name site.
needles. after the lawsuits against sellers of silicone breast implants and they bankrupted the dow corning company, they said we don t want to risk a lawsuit. today lawsuits terrorize people. make everything cost more and drive us of good stuff. on the other hand we don t want to ban all lawsuits. some are useful. some provide justice for victims and deter bad companies for bad doctors from doing bad things. how do we get rid of the bad and keep the good? some politicians wanted to cap lawsuits. that has helped lawsuits in a few states but i don t know that is fair. california has a $250,000 on some damages but if a company behaves really whaists bad it should pay more. cap seems arbitrary. i think the best solution is