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Many of the patents in their portfolio now have publicly-accessible crowdsourced prior art pools that defendants can use to invalidate more patents. They can st
by joshuaissac 7y ago
Many of the patents in their portfolio now have publicly-accessible crowdsourced prior art pools that defendants can use to invalidate more patents. They can still buy new patents, but because of what has already happened, they are down on staff. They have not been vanquished, but they have been weakened.
- nullc 7y agoI'm aware but it isn't hard to interpret this as "they lost nothing more than the use of some number of $1 patents and the time it takes them to go find more $1 patents". That doesn't seem like that big of a setback.
- vxNsr 7y agoThat fact that the company dropped from 12 people to 3 is a big tell. No new cash is coming in. They can’t get ppl to work for free and hope to get a nice big cash infusion soon (in the form of patent royalties).