• aamram@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    “Sable is a patent troll. It doesn’t make, develop, innovate, or sell anything. Sable IP is merely a shell entity formed to monetize (make money from) an ancient patent portfolio acquired by Sable Networks from Caspian Networks in 2006.”

    Damn… What an unbelievable douche business model.

    • jedibob5@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      “In the end, Sable agreed to pay Cloudflare $225,000, grant Cloudflare a royalty-free license to its entire patent portfolio, and to dedicate its patents to the public, ensuring that Sable can never again assert them against another company,” said Terrell and Nemeroff.

      Sounds like Sable has already been destroyed so thoroughly there wouldn’t be anything left to sue.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah except:

        Five other companies that we know of sued by Sable – Cisco, Fortinet, Check Point, SonicWall, and Juniper Networks – settled out of court.

        Then they are forced to pay out $225k and are “destroyed?” I don’t think so. Sounds to me like the fucks behind this are taking their money and running, lest somebody sue the dogshit out of them like they deserve.

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    3 months ago

    Fuck cloudflare but kudos to them.

    The agreement means that Sable will tell the US Patent and Trademark Office that it is abandoning its patent rights and no further claims based on those patents will be possible.

    Gold.

    • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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      3 months ago

      I’m willing to accept some things may warrant software patents, but for real, so many are garbage. The one with Nintendo and Pal world where they patented “throwing capturing devices at monsters in a 3d environment” is so stupid.