Having been shaken down a few times in business myself, I learned to call this threat "The Sword of Damocles."
To an extent your likelihood of a shakedown is tied to your market share, but not necessarily.
As a rational person your instinct that your work was developed independently and/or earlier or other well-known work is prior art is irrelevant to the parasites because they are not interested in facts, only money. You can only hope they don't try to kill the host.
Without naming names and amounts since settlements are bound by secrecy, I'd like to hear some (hopefully successful) battlefield stories of handling the dreaded troll letters and blind-side lawsuits?
To an extent your likelihood of a shakedown is tied to your market share, but not necessarily.
As a rational person your instinct that your work was developed independently and/or earlier or other well-known work is prior art is irrelevant to the parasites because they are not interested in facts, only money. You can only hope they don't try to kill the host.
Without naming names and amounts since settlements are bound by secrecy, I'd like to hear some (hopefully successful) battlefield stories of handling the dreaded troll letters and blind-side lawsuits?