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Mea culpa for kneejerk commenting. The article is a little confusing though; what actually seems to have occurred is:

1. Patent troll entity filed a suit in east Texas, c. February 2020 (https://web.archive.org/web/20200410225148/https://mycroft.a...).

2. Same patent troll entity dropped the first suit, also c. February 2020 (https://web.archive.org/web/20200305135828/https://mycroft.a...).

3. Same patent troll entity filed a second suit in Kansas City on February 18, 2020 (https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2020/03/30/mycro...) (https://web.archive.org/web/20200807211354/https://mycroft.a...) (https://web.archive.org/web/20200516014621/https://mycroft.a...).

This second suit seems to have substantially cost Mycroft.

Unfortunately the same patent troll sued twice. Mycroft's blog posts on the second suit:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200807211354/https://mycroft.a...

https://web.archive.org/web/20200516014621/https://mycroft.a...

Patent trolls are scum.

I have my doubts, however, about the narrative in this article. Mycroft first posted about the patent troll to their blog on February 5, 2020 (https://web.archive.org/web/20200303015458/https://mycroft.a...). Eight days later, on February 13, 2020, Mycroft published a second post stating that the patent troll dropped their case (https://web.archive.org/web/20200305135828/https://mycroft.a...).

I am sympathetic to hardware startups, but in Mycroft's case, ongoing patent troll litigation was not the apparent cause of death.