We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won

Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won by CreepGin on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:17PM (#21448679)

Bravo!!! This warms my heart a little.

I do wonder though... what's Blackbird's mentality like when they started hitting on big players like Cloudflare? In my limited reading of past patent-troll-related posts on HN, it's almost always about preying on small entities.

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Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won by AnimalMuppet on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:26PM (#21448724)

They hit on small entities to build up enough of a war chest to buy enough lawyers to make the big players think that a lawsuit is going to be costly. If the terms offered to the big player are less than the big players think the lawsuit will cost, a lot of big players will just make the economic calculation and pay up.

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Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won by kramerdj on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:31PM (#21448754)

Big players see their share of cases as well, if not more. Settling or licensing the technology will generally be cheaper in the short term than litigating the case.

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Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won by magashna on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:43PM (#21449112)

I'm sure you don't hear about a majority of cases because they're settled out of court.

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