We’re pleased to announce that the litigation against Sable has finally concluded on terms that we believe send a strong message to patent trolls everywhere — if you bring meritless patent claims against Cloudflare, we will fight back and we will win.
  • BuffaloxEnglish
    1862·
    11 days ago

    This is absolutely awesome: 👍😎

    Project Jengo is Cloudflare’s effort to fight back against patent trolls by flipping the incentive structure that has encouraged the growth of patent trolls who extract settlements out of companies using frivolous lawsuits. We do this by asking the public to help identify prior art that can invalidate any of the patents that a troll holds, not just the ones that are asserted against Cloudflare.

    Emphasis by me.

    • KethalEnglish
      657·
      11 days ago11 days ago

      CloudFlare makes more than a billion dollars a year in revenue. The work done for this project is probably worth millions to them and they paid out $100,000. That sounds like bullshit to me. Let corporations hire lawyers instead of doing their work for a pittance.

      • CosmicTurtle0English
        250·
        11 days ago

        They should have increased the payout. It should have been a percentage of what CF would have paid had they paid the troll.

        I don’t expect attorneys to be experts in technical work. Even those who are won’t have the same experience as the literal millions of techies out there who know really obscure technology.

        • FatCrabEnglish
          30·
          9 days ago

          I’ve worked on processing submissions for this project. Honestly, it probably ends up just costing them more to do this program, which is mostly just a paid PR activity. The overwhelming majority of submissions, and I mean like 99%, are either not prior art in the sense of patent law or were already retrieved by the law firm on the case.

      • linearchaosEnglish
        10·
        9 days ago

        And it’s less annoying than a stadium full of people with vuvuzelas.