Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public!

Patent Trolls are often successful because companies do the math and decide it is easier and cheaper to pay them than to fight. Cloudflare however decided not to play ball.

In the end, Sable agreed to pay Cloudflare $225,000, grant Cloudflare a royalty-free license to its entire patent portfolio, and to dedicate its patents to the public, ensuring that Sable can never again assert them against another company.

They won the filing and they made Sable dissolve their patent rights. Impressive stuff. I also love that they used crowd-sourcing with their Project Jengo to help fight this troll. 👏