Cloudflare declared war on a group of lawyers that files patent lawsuits against tech firms, by offering bounties for the discovery of patent-invalidating “prior art.” Now an anonymous reader writes:
On Thursday, Cloudflare announced it has paid out the first $7,500 to people who discovered documents that could help invalidate Blackbird’s patents. The money is part of a $100,000 war chest the company announced this spring… The company said it is ready to launch individual challenges to specific Blackbird patents. The company believes it has enough examples of prior art on US Patent 7,797,448, “GPS-internet Linkage” and US Patent 6,453,335 (the one asserted against Cloudflare) to lodge a challenge.

“We have received more than 230 submissions so far,” Cloudflare reports, “and have only just begun to scratch the surface.”

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Source: Slashdot – Cloudflare Pays First ,500 Bounties In War Against Patent Troll