I assume you're doing "work for hire", which implies that your copyright is assigned to the client in consideration for your wages. In your agreement, you could explicitly specifiy, absent payment in full, the copyright remains with you. (This is may be the case anyway.) That is, they don't own it without paying for it.
Here are all the patent cases in which Google was a plaintiff. They appear to all be declaratory judgments against NPE defendants.
4:2004-cv-04922 Google Inc. v. Skyline Software Systems Inc.
5:2005-md-01654 In re Compression Labs, Inc., Patent Litigation
5:2004-cv-03934 Google Inc. v. Compression Labs Inc et al
4:2008-cv-04144 Google Inc. v. Netlist, Inc.
3:2009-cv-00642 Google Inc. v. Traffic Information LLC
1:2011-cv-00175 Microsoft Corporation et al v. GeoTag Inc.
1:2011-cv-00637 Google Inc. v. Sourceprose, Inc.
4:2009-cv-01243 Google, Inc. v. EMSAT Advanced Geo-Location Technology, LLC et al
Sidebar question: how did you find these? I'm researching a related topic and need to perform bulk searches for patent related litigation data. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Being a plaintiff doesn't always mean you're the one suing. It could be an appeals court case where the positions are reversed. Also, you could sue an NPE in order to invalidate their patent(s), or to seek an injunction.
Killer service, but two things jump out. 1) Need dkim signing by own domain and 2) envelope sender should match from address. These don't matter if you're sending to consumer domains (gmail, yahoo), but, as I've learned, they do matter for corporate environments, which are fragmented and antiqued.
$9/mo fixed cost is a big step up from a pure pay-as-you-go. (But, also the cost of two cups of coffee at Starbucks, so still a bargain for the service provided.)
I really wish they would allow the $9 fee to be paid automatically if my app reached quota rather than making me plan for it. The beauty of appengine for me was that I didn't have to think about scaling. I guess I'll now have to pay for that privilege.
Totally right -- it's well within FB's TOS and you have no recourse other than to email them. But, humans responding to email doesn't scale well, hence the poor "customer service".
(The quotes because, you're not so much the customer as the product...your eyeballs at least.)
Quite respectable that they knew what they wanted and made the tough decision. Nothing wrong with striving greatly and failing, as long as you're in the arena.
Postmark is amazing, particularly the service from Natalie and Chris. Whenever I have an issue they respond within 20 minutes.
It's unclear to me reading the SES docs how their spam handling will be; what they will be doing to police those with whom I share an IP address; and many other things. However, what is clear is that at no point will anybody respond to my support request at 11pm as your staff did the other night.
Not if you get a lawyer to take your case for a % of the eventual settlement/suit. Which I think is a relatively common practice. Not sure how it works and I am not an expert, but I imagine a lot of enterprising lawyers would be willing to take that deal. Twitter will likely settle to end it, and they can take a good percentage.
