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Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up • The Register (www.theregister.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/tech

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[+] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"In the end, Sable agreed to pay Cloudflare $225,000, grant Cloudflare a royalty-free license to its entire patent portfolio, and to dedicate its patents to the public, ensuring that Sable can never again assert them against another company," said Terrell and Nemeroff.

Sounds like Sable has already been destroyed so thoroughly there wouldn't be anything left to sue.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Yeah except:

Five other companies that we know of sued by Sable – Cisco, Fortinet, Check Point, SonicWall, and Juniper Networks – settled out of court.

Then they are forced to pay out $225k and are "destroyed?" I don't think so. Sounds to me like the fucks behind this are taking their money and running, lest somebody sue the dogshit out of them like they deserve.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

"Sable is a patent troll. It doesn’t make, develop, innovate, or sell anything. Sable IP is merely a shell entity formed to monetize (make money from) an ancient patent portfolio acquired by Sable Networks from Caspian Networks in 2006."

Damn... What an unbelievable douche business model.

[–] 0x0 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fuck cloudflare but kudos to them.

The agreement means that Sable will tell the US Patent and Trademark Office that it is abandoning its patent rights and no further claims based on those patents will be possible.

Gold.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Fuck cloudflare but kudos to them.

It's like watching two playground bullies go at each others's throats.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Eliminate software patents.

[–] JackbyDev 5 points 2 months ago

I'm willing to accept some things may warrant software patents, but for real, so many are garbage. The one with Nintendo and Pal world where they patented "throwing capturing devices at monsters in a 3d environment" is so stupid.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That’s an interesting number of fingers in the thumbnail

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Seems like that'd be pretty handy

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

ai bullshit imagine no thanks