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		everybodyknows on May 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Tro... Blackbird's founders both came from large (>1000 employee firms), and likely know all the tricks. Cloudflare mentions "outside patent counsel" https://www.cloudflare.com/priorartsearch/ Any idea who are the Cloudfare outside attorneys?

iplaw on May 12, 2017 [–]

Do not mistake employment in big law for infallible expertise. I deal with exactly this on a daily basis - patent litigation, IPRs, counter IPRs, NPEs, PEs. Regardless of their background, they do not want their assets facing IPRs. IPRs introduce delays, invalidity risks, and costs.

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