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jedibob5reply
lemmy.world

"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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Supervisor194reply
lemmy.world

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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0x0
programming.dev

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.

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aamram
lemmy.dbzer0.com

"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.

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li10
feddit.uk

That’s an interesting number of fingers in the thumbnail

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