Comment on Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public!
Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is absolutely awesome: 👍😎
Project Jengo is Cloudflare’s effort to fight back against patent trolls by flipping the incentive structure that has encouraged the growth of patent trolls who extract settlements out of companies using frivolous lawsuits. We do this by asking the public to help identify prior art that can invalidate any of the patents that a troll holds, not just the ones that are asserted against Cloudflare.
Emphasis by me.
Kethal@lemmy.world 4 months ago
CloudFlare has more than a billion dollars in revenue. The work done for this project is probably worth millions to them and they paid out $100,000. That sounds like bullshit to me. Let sitty corporations hire lawyers instead of doing their work for a pittance.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
They should have increased the payout. It should have been a percentage of what CF would have paid had they paid the troll.
I don’t expect attorneys to be experts in technical work. Even those who are won’t have the same experience as the literal millions of techies out there who know really obscure technology.