Cloudflare beat a patent troll. What now? In the summer of 2017, we wrote about a battle between Cloudflare, the San Francisco-based internet security and content delivery network, and Blackbird Technologies, a Boston- and Chicago-based firm founded by two attorneys who’d previously litigated intellectual property cases on behalf of some of the largest tech companies in the world and had amassed at least 37 patents that they were using to file dozens of patent infringement lawsuits.
The suit was typical in every way, except how Cloudflare responded to it. Rather than quietly settle, as have other targets of Blackbird and the many patent trolls, Cloudflare decided to fight back in a very public way, blogging extensively, talking with news outlets like ours, and, most crucially, turning to anyone and everyone who could help it locate prior art. The idea wasn’t merely to invalidate the patent that Blackbird was using to sue Cloudflare — but to invalidate all of Blackbird’s patents. Cloudlfare declared war. ... https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/05/cloudflare-beat-a-patent-troll-what-now/ _______________________________________________ Medianews mailing list [email protected] http://etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews_etskywarn.net
