>In other news, as an investor, this tells me Cloudflare is technologically ahead of the other older companies who apparently were not sure they could defend ag

>In other news, as an investor, this tells me Cloudflare is technologically ahead of the other older companies who apparently were not sure they could defend against the claims. That feels like a highly specious takeaway from this court case. Companies settle against trolls because litigation isn't free to fight. It can make very good financial sense (and even be encouraged by investors who don't want to see a company in the courts for years, as Cloudflare was.) I would be highly interested to see the breakdown of what it cost in manhours, fees, prizes to Project Jengo, etc. versus the payout from Sable to fight this particular case for Cloudflare, and whether they even came close to breaking even just on this case alone. Likely their decision somewhat hinged on an estimate of what it might cost to settle all other patent disputes in the future, and the belief that fighting this case is actually saving them much more money down the line (but how much?).