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More detail on what we are doing from three blog posts: Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Troll https://blog.cloudflare.com/standing-up-to-a-dange

More detail on what we are doing from three blog posts: Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Troll https://blog.cloudflare.com/standing-up-to-a-dangerous-new-breed-of-patent-troll/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/standing-up-to-a-dangerous-new-b... Project Jengo https://blog.cloudflare.com/project-jengo/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/project-jengo/ Patent Troll Battle Update: Doubling Down on Project Jengo https://blog.cloudflare.com/patent-troll-battle-update-doubling-down-on-project-jengo/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/patent-troll-battle-update-doubl...

saagarjha 9y ago
Umm…I think you mean Jango Fett, not "Jengo" Fett, in the caption for the first image in the second article.
- acobster 9y ago
  The idea of using the name Jango is probably patented.
  - saagarjha 9y ago
    Possibly, but that doesn't mean they can't spell it correctly in an image caption. Indiana Jones is right below it, and it's correct.
    - chrisbennet 9y ago
      I think that was a joke.
0x1BADBABE 9y ago
additionally: The Patent scam intro by Austin Meyer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG9UMMq2dz4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG9UMMq2dz4
eru 9y ago
> [...] Blackbird combines both a law firm and intellectual property rights holder into a single entity. In doing so, they remove legal fees from their cost structure and can bring lawsuits of potentially dubious merit without having to bear any meaningful cost. Don't the lawyers have opportunity costs?
- chii 9y ago
  if they couldn't really do anything else, then this is the best opportinity they are going to get!
- josaka 9y ago
  This argument by in the article is silly. One of the founders of Blackbird came from Kirkland. Kirkland's profit per partner is $4m per year in the last year. So the Blackbird lawyer is forgoing the opporunity to participate in this income to pursue this case (and may others). (Granted, income is not distributed equally in most firms, but to imply that the next best alternative for these lawyers is zero income doesn't help the article's credibility.)
- awkward 9y ago
  Opportunity costs don't get written on a ledger. Raising the risk to starting a patent troll company might be strategic in stopping other lawyers from starting, but it won't win this case.

saagarjha 9y ago

Umm…I think you mean Jango Fett, not "Jengo" Fett, in the caption for the first image in the second article.

acobster 9y ago
The idea of using the name Jango is probably patented.
- saagarjha 9y ago
  Possibly, but that doesn't mean they can't spell it correctly in an image caption. Indiana Jones is right below it, and it's correct.
  - chrisbennet 9y ago
    I think that was a joke.

0x1BADBABE 9y ago

additionally: The Patent scam intro by Austin Meyer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG9UMMq2dz4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG9UMMq2dz4

eru 9y ago

> [...] Blackbird combines both a law firm and intellectual property rights holder into a single entity. In doing so, they remove legal fees from their cost structure and can bring lawsuits of potentially dubious merit without having to bear any meaningful cost. Don't the lawyers have opportunity costs?

chii 9y ago
if they couldn't really do anything else, then this is the best opportinity they are going to get!
josaka 9y ago
This argument by in the article is silly. One of the founders of Blackbird came from Kirkland. Kirkland's profit per partner is $4m per year in the last year. So the Blackbird lawyer is forgoing the opporunity to participate in this income to pursue this case (and may others). (Granted, income is not distributed equally in most firms, but to imply that the next best alternative for these lawyers is zero income doesn't help the article's credibility.)
awkward 9y ago
Opportunity costs don't get written on a ledger. Raising the risk to starting a patent troll company might be strategic in stopping other lawyers from starting, but it won't win this case.