Winning the Blackbird Battle
February 14, 2019 6:03PM
We’re happy to report that on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion affirming a lower court decision dismissing the case brought by Blackbird Tech. This is the last step in the process, we’ve won....
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Bye Bye Blackbird
February 13, 2018 1:16AM
Patents
Jengo
Legal
Community
As we have talked about repeatedly in this blog, we at Cloudflare are not fans of the behavior of patent trolls. They prey upon innovative companies using overly-broad patents in an attempt to bleed settlements out of their targets....
The Supreme Court Wanders into the Patent Troll Fight
November 20, 2017 6:18PM
Legal
Jengo
Patents
Next Monday, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Oil States Energy Services, LLC vs. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC, which is a case to determine whether the Inter Partes Review (IPR) administrative process at the US Patent and Trademark Office....
Project Jengo Strikes Its First Targets (and Looks for More)
September 21, 2017 5:02PM
Legal
Patents
Jengo
Community
Star Wars
When Blackbird Tech, a notorious patent troll, sued us earlier this year for patent infringement, we discovered quickly that the folks at Blackbird were engaged in what appeared to be the broad and unsubstantiated assertion of patents -- filing about 115 lawsuits in less than 3 years....
The New Breed of Patent Trolls
September 14, 2017 10:38PM
Internet Summit
Legal
Patents
Lee Cheng, President & Co-CLO, Symmetry IP LLC, and Vera Ranieri, Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation Moderator: Doug Kramer, General Counsel, Cloudflare...