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"Three years ago, we updated Vizzini’s list of “classic blunders” from
The
Princess Bride to include “never try to patent troll Cloudflare.” That was
when the company announced that patent troll Sable Networks had made that
mistake and now needed to be taught a lesson. That lesson is now complete, and
Cloudflare has successfully destroyed a patent troll (and embarrassed it along
the way) so much that the troll has agreed to declare its entire patent
portfolio open and free for the public to use.
First, some history: over a decade ago, the e-commerce site Newegg was getting
sick of patent trolls and decided that it needed to take a “never settle”
approach to fighting them. The thing with patent trolling is that it’s
asymmetric warfare. Trolls get low quality patents and then shake down
companies, knowing that it’s cheaper to just pay some smaller amount to settle
than to take the matter to court and win. But, as Newegg’s leadership surmised
at the time, settling only leads to more patent trolls and more shake down
payments. Making it clear you’ll never ever settle (and being very public about
that) should eventually lead patent trolls to look elsewhere.
Since then, a few other companies have embraced this strategy, but none has
done so with quite the same gusto, zeal, and commitment to absolutely crushing
the souls of patent trolls as Cloudflare."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
