How to deal with patents?
bsaunder: I'd say go ahead and proceed with your idea (of course, I'm not a lawyer).  People with patents, don't care about you until you have money (confirmed this with a patent troll I met recently at a convention).  At that point you can either work around the patent or negotiate a license agreement.Also (and this is mentioned everywhere in these circles), what you actually launch with may be entirely different than your idea right now anyway.Don't worry about problems you don't have yet.  Good to know about the up coming problems, but focus on making progress, otherwise it's just mental entertainment.