I'd be offering free apps that users unlock via an in-app purchase right now if it weren't for Lodsys.<p>Software patents are a cancer and we all lose when somebody can come along and assert an obvious idea like this is theirs.
Real question: Where's the best place to incorporate and host your site outside of the USA in order to sell software products globally with minimized hazard of becoming a target by patent trolls?<p>No need for it to be some kind of claimed tax haven or supposedly look the other way for content pirates, really just not worth a troll's effort for what they try to extract from a small company?
Asking USPTO to invalidate patents issued by USPTO is more often than not a bad idea ( like in Eolas' case). Forcing the same bureaucrats to admit that they were wrong in issuing the patent is not the best strategy. The most resultant way is to have a patent invalidated by court (again like in Eolas' case), but it's more expensive.
Why fight a bogus company in courtrooms in the name of a broken model? Nonsense! Just change the business model to something that previously worked, like shareware. End of story. Back to business.