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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 22 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


"Patent trolls create what we consider to be an unfair, unjust, and inefficient system that throttles innovation and threatens emerging companies," Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told Ars.

Whereas other companies often settle with "patent trolls" to avoid costly legal battles that can drain critical resources otherwise funding innovations, Prince said that Cloudflare's most recent victory is "an important validation that we can successfully fight back against the threat to innovation posed by patent trolls."

Seemingly utilizing this strategy, Sable had successfully secured settlements from several companies before, including Cisco, Fortinet, Check Point, SonicWall, and Juniper Networks.

"If that meant leveraging a patent related to decades-old router hardware to sue a cloud-based service provider, so be it," Cloudflare's blog said.

As a result of that victory, Blackbird "went out of business," effectively ending that company's meritless patent infringement claims, Cloudflare said.

With two wins under the program's belt, Cloudflare hopes the Sable verdict serves as "a strong warning to all patent trolls—we will not be intimidated into playing your game."


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[-] key@lemmy.keychat.org 16 points 8 months ago

To defeat Sable, Cloudflare offered $100,000 "to be split among winners that submitted strong prior art."

Important bit missing. Summary and headline had me imagining something much more dystopia.

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