Mike August
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 19 Dec
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And says to the government, that patent I got in 96, that applies to this other stuff, right?
All these other things that are going on.
2012, it's granted.
In the end of 2012.
2013, bam, the lawsuits start coming down.
He got the patent with all the intent to go out and just start suing people.
They don't make podcasts.
They don't make anything.
They make lawsuits.
That's why they're called a patent troll.
They're in it for the money, right?
And they've got a patent.
But a patent is a very serious thing.
And when it's put on you, you now have to spend literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in litigation fees to do what's called discovery, to go out and get experts and to do due diligence on the people who put the patent together to figure out whether it applies or not.
And that's why it's the most expensive form of litigation.
And that's why defendants would rather settle or in the case of small businesses like ours, literally fold up the shop.
I mean, we were looking at if this would have gone the wrong way, we would have had to close this business down because we could not withstand the cost.
Patent trolls upset me deeply.
Okay.
These guys made it easy to make that decision, though, because they came at us for $3.5 million.
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