Woah, looks like this patent troll picked the wrong company to sue. Cloudflare is going after them _hard_:
> Step 1 — Cloudflare will fight this case in the courts
> Step 2 — Cloudflare will fund a crowdsourced effort to find evidence to invalidate Blackbird’s patents… all of them
> Step 3 — Cloudflare will investigate Blackbird’s operations to develop facts that support our arguments in the litigation and expose how patent trolls really operate
> Step 4 — File complaints against Blackbird attorneys by bar association disciplinary counsel in Massachusetts and Illinois
Step #4 is going right for the throat: their ability to practice law at all. That's a big "and fuck you too" on top of the other stuff which is only meant to shut down Blackbird's operations as a patent troll.
I have no sympathy for patent trolls any more than I do other extortionists - whether "technically it is legal" or not.
If they can truly bar them from practicing that would be the ultimate win. It would also send a message to new wanna be trolls that life is a troll isn't lalaland.
> Step 1 — Cloudflare will fight this case in the courts
> Step 2 — Cloudflare will fund a crowdsourced effort to find evidence to invalidate Blackbird’s patents… all of them
> Step 3 — Cloudflare will investigate Blackbird’s operations to develop facts that support our arguments in the litigation and expose how patent trolls really operate
> Step 4 — File complaints against Blackbird attorneys by bar association disciplinary counsel in Massachusetts and Illinois