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Bravo!!! This warms my heart a little.

I do wonder though... what's Blackbird's mentality like when they started hitting on big players like Cloudflare? In my limited reading of past patent-troll-related posts on HN, it's almost always about preying on small entities.

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They hit on small entities to build up enough of a war chest to buy enough lawyers to make the big players think that a lawsuit is going to be costly. If the terms offered to the big player are less than the big players think the lawsuit will cost, a lot of big players will just make the economic calculation and pay up.

Big players see their share of cases as well, if not more. Settling or licensing the technology will generally be cheaper in the short term than litigating the case.

I'm sure you don't hear about a majority of cases because they're settled out of court.

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