Patent Trolls vs Austin Meyer

X-Plane Flight Simulator by Laminar Research.

X-Plane Flight Simulator by Laminar Research.

The following videos are from a friend of Publius Jr–Austin Meyer was a college roommate of his at Iowa State University where they went to school for Aerospace Engineering (we are not associated with the company).  Austin went on to start his company Laminar Research that makes and sells X-Plane Flight Simulator.

I, Publius Jr, remember when the Microsoft guys showed up at room 5514 in Friley Hall.  They wanted to buy it for $50,ooo.  The guys of Niles-Foster House persuaded him to not sell and to run with X-Plane.  Austin knew it was worth more and it was a better Flight Simulator than Microsoft’s.

The rest is history until some Patent Trolls decided to prey upon Austin and other developers for using an obscure line of software that was implied to be safe to use.  Well…let Austin tell you more about this scam to put innovators, inventors, and guys like Austin out of business.~~ Publius Jr.


Wow.  What a miscarriage of justice.

A guy spends countless hours of development only to be ripped off by a slick operator that preys upon the little guys.  How can an East Texas Court prosecute someone from South Carolina without the Feds getting involved?

What’s a Patent Troll?

Want to know more?  Go to The Patent Scam

 

 

This entry was posted in St Paul +, Uncategorized and tagged , , , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply