While this is a better outcome than quietly paying the troll like the previous victims, I can't really applaud Kaspersky for this. While it probably discourage

While this is a better outcome than quietly paying the troll like the previous victims, I can't really applaud Kaspersky for this. While it probably discourages future suits against Kaspersky, it does nothing to help the other businesses who will continue to fall victim. In contrast, Newegg is making the world better by helping to invalidate these nonsense patents: https://blog.newegg.com/newegg-helps-invalidate-phony-patent-assertion-claim-holds-perfect-nine-year-track-record-appeal-patent-troll-cases/ https://blog.newegg.com/newegg-helps-invalidate-phony-patent.... I think Kaspersky's approach here is "corporate stotting". "Stotting" is a fine word that describes the apparently maladaptive "show off" behavior of some animals, where they prance and dance around in front of predators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stotting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stotting. In "signaling theory", this is presumed to be an "honest signal" that the stotting animal is so fast and fit that the predator should chase someone else instead. This is good for that particularly fit individual, but not so much for the others in the herd. As a not particularly fit or fast individual, I'm a bigger fan of Newegg's approach.