Blackbird's Patent Troll Suit Against Cloudflare Gets Patent Invalidated

Re:Blackbird's Patent Troll Suit Against Cloudflare Gets Pat... by Retric on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @11:41AM (#16368471)

Patent trolls are separate companies with ~zero assets outside of the patent. Think sock-puppet internet accounts.

They can just pay out any income as soon as it shows up so there is nothing to recover if their patent is invalidated.

PS: The only way to make this work is if you pierced the corporate veil when their patents where invalidated, and that would make patents even more useless to small companies.

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Re:Blackbird's Patent Troll Suit Against Cloudflare Gets Pat... by Eridrus on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @12:19PM (#16368802)

I don't think piercing the corporate veil is the only possible solution, you could legislate that revenue from unlitigated patents couldn't be taken out as profit. Again, that might not be enough and the exact wording would need work, but I think that making it possible is the first step to making it practical.

Personally I think we should just abolish the entire patent system, since I really don't see much benefit in it for anyone but large companies, but basically everyone agrees on stopping patent trolls with garbage patents

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