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See ccrglaw.com -- Great lawyers, they did a great job for us.

This is a great conversation. Cloudflare certainly sees the value of the patent system, we have a number of our own patents that we employ defensively to make sure we can continue to run our business securely.

Not sure yet where costs and fees settle out. Generally, in US system you shouldn't expect that fee awards would shift the incentive structure.

1. It's all about underlying incentives. Short term those will always counsel early settlement, if there's enough awareness and collective action to take the long-term view, then we might be able to push incentives in another direction.

2. Some of the existing collectives combine their IP assets to give each other a license to each other's patents or the benefit of any future settlements, which limits the exposure a bit. Not sure if something like underwriters of patent troll insurance could combine the incentives enough into long-term view to make that worthwhile.

I can see the value but it's largely a question of resources. There are some strong collectives that are working in this space, not sure we have the time to run that as a side job. Plus, PJ is narrowly-focused on this troll, which is why we said from the beginning, it would last as long as the lawsuit was active. In the meantime, we're focusing our community engagement efforts on Project Galileo and Athenian Project.

Hi. Cloudflare GC here. Some informed comments here. Feel free to AMA.