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If you have good prior art, why would a patent holder litigate against you? They'd be almost guaranteed to lose their patent.



Ask Sable wrt their spat with CloudFlare.


Perhaps you can make your point here so I don't have to go searching for something you have not even explained the relevancy of.


Literally what do you expect them to post? Sable is a patent troll who very famously sued Cloudflare, and recently lost. What else could they possibly mean?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/patent-troll-sable-pays-up/


>Literally what do you expect them to post?

What their point is. I don't know who sable is, I'm not a mind reader and searching would just require me to make an assumption as to what their point would have been.

> Sable is a patent troll who very famously sued Cloudflare, and recently lost. What else could they possibly mean?

I don't think that's what the word famous means!

All things aside, I don't think pointing to one instance of this occurring is a great argument. Mind you that the invalidity issue went to a jury which means it escaped at least 3 rounds of determination by a judge, including a JMOL. Meaning that the judge felt there was enough evidence for a jury to be able to find the patents were valid. So, again, I don't think it's the slam-dunk some people seem to think.




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