<story><title>Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/patent-troll-sable-pays-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeroCalories</author><text>Copyright, patents, it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter. It&amp;#x27;s all IP and our enemies do not respect it. We need to move forward with that reality.</text></item><item><author>AlbertCory</author><text>copyrights are different from patents.</text></item><item><author>ikekkdcjkfke</author><text>Hopefully the powers that be will look at it from a national security perspective, in that other countries do not respect US copyright law and may be pulling ahead</text></item><item><author>textlapse</author><text>This is great. I do worry that a future more sinister malicious patent troll could read all the wonderful strategy Cloudflare used and work around them. Hopefully Cloudflare legal team got stronger!&lt;p&gt;Kudos to the likes of Cloudflare and (yesteryears’) Newegg that fought these trolls.&lt;p&gt;I shudder at the thought of how many of the existing legacy industries outside the computer space are still riddled with these patent portfolio companies :(</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>datadrivenangel</author><text>The US used to ignore IP laws when we were an underdog.</text></comment>
<story><title>Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/patent-troll-sable-pays-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeroCalories</author><text>Copyright, patents, it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter. It&amp;#x27;s all IP and our enemies do not respect it. We need to move forward with that reality.</text></item><item><author>AlbertCory</author><text>copyrights are different from patents.</text></item><item><author>ikekkdcjkfke</author><text>Hopefully the powers that be will look at it from a national security perspective, in that other countries do not respect US copyright law and may be pulling ahead</text></item><item><author>textlapse</author><text>This is great. I do worry that a future more sinister malicious patent troll could read all the wonderful strategy Cloudflare used and work around them. Hopefully Cloudflare legal team got stronger!&lt;p&gt;Kudos to the likes of Cloudflare and (yesteryears’) Newegg that fought these trolls.&lt;p&gt;I shudder at the thought of how many of the existing legacy industries outside the computer space are still riddled with these patent portfolio companies :(</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macintux</author><text>Patents are explicitly open for anyone to see. I don&amp;#x27;t know that we need more help there: you can get a product banned from import if someone uses your patent without recompense.</text></comment>