Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public!

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• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Kethal@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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• grandma@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Patents shouldn’t be valid for more than 5 years imo. If you can’t make a large enough profit from your idea in 5 years maybe it wasn’t that good or original.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The original idea with patents is to help protect small inventors from being run over by bigger corporations.
    But the result is more often the opposite, where small inventors that have a genuinely profitable novel product, is quickly forced to bankruptcy by frivolous patent suits, even when the new product is patented, and when bankrupt bought for peanuts by the bigger corp.

    The other main basis for patents is that the technology should not be lost, in case of the inventors death.
    But the way tech works today, that is no-longer relevant.

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    • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As someone who was awarded several patents, these things were not made to be a source of infinite money forever!

      Up there with our copyright law it’s a system that has been horribly abused to the benefit of super powerful corporations that run everything.

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    • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same for copyright law. The point was to give creators a few years to profit from their work before it goes into public domain.

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  • gencha@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The quality of an invention has nothing to do with profitability. People actively fight competing products and ideas. A good invention is worth nothing unless you whore it out to existing industry

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Instead of a flat five years across the board, length of time could be variable based on assets and political connectedness

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