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Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up • The Register (www.theregister.com)
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[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 32 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The existence of two earlier US patents, 6,584,071 and 6,680,933 for router technology developed by Nortel Networks and Lucent in the 1990s convinced the jury that Sable's '919 patent should never have been granted.

It'd be hilariously awesome if Nortel and Lucent took wind of this and decided to bleed Sable dry in court

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 43 points 18 hours 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.

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours 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.

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

They still exist as a corporate entity and I wouldn't consider it cruel or malevolent to wholly eradicate them through patent troll litigation. It'd be rich. They're still sitting on dubiously-gotten gains and it doesn't sit right with me that stakeholders will be able to clean out all the pocket change under the couch cushions and walk away

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 25 points 18 hours 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.

[–] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org 14 points 16 hours ago

Fuck cloudflare but kudos to them.

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

[–] aamram@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 19 hours 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.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 15 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Eliminate software patents.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 13 hours 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.

[–] li10@feddit.uk 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That’s an interesting number of fingers in the thumbnail

[–] TotalFat@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Seems like that'd be pretty handy

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

More ai bullshit