Blackbird's Patent Troll Suit Against Cloudflare Gets Patent Invalidated

Re:Blackbird's Patent Troll Suit Against Cloudflare Gets Pat... by jaredhansen on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @12:48PM (#16369088)

This is great news. Regarding the several comments along the lines of "there should be a way to pool resources across many companies to fight trolls", there are in fact several such orgs (beyond EFF, already mentioned below). The three I'm most familiar with (and of which we are members) are:

1) RPX, which is basically just troll insurance. http://www.rpxcorp.com/

2) LOT Network (LOT=License on Transfer): http://lotnet.com/

3) My favorite: Unified Patents, which actively files IPRs against NPEs: https://www.unifiedpatents.com/

There may be others and I'd be glad to hear about them. I recommend every startup join at least these three - the annual fees are modest (free in some cases) and potential benefit is enormous.

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Re:Blackbird's Patent Troll Suit Against Cloudflare Gets Pat... by apeace on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:31PM (#16369485)

In this specific case, Cloudflare crowdsourced prior art research on Blackbird's patents:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/project-jengo/

Not exactly the same as a generic pool, but still a neat way to fight back against these trolls.

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