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Old 10-09-2003, 11:18 PM  
Groove
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Originally posted by Suckitbitch
You are still based in the US,
I am not in the US and will shortly be moving offshore,

but I get your point

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and have no seemingly legitimate reason to move your business to the EU except to avoid litigation.
You would need the advice of a lawyer to determine what would be required to ensure that the company was deemed to be genuinely EU. For example, there is nothing to stop you from outsourcing some of the actual work offshore, then it would appear more legitimate.

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You will also get raped up the ass with euro taxes and are leaving things dangeling by a thread when processing through the EU banking relationships.
Not if you set-up in a tax haven like Gibraltar.

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Why not Canada? No Acacia patents registered or pending there.
The EU is proposing to specifically invalidate this type of patent. Whereas I was under the impression [though I could easily be wrong] that it is possible to patent a business process in Canada and that Acacia has already applied for patents there.

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Mind you, no stable or reliable 3rd party billers either.
That is another stumbling block.
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