• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    They should have increased the payout. It should have been a percentage of what CF would have paid had they paid the troll.

    I don’t expect attorneys to be experts in technical work. Even those who are won’t have the same experience as the literal millions of techies out there who know really obscure technology.

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      3 months ago

      I’ve worked on processing submissions for this project. Honestly, it probably ends up just costing them more to do this program, which is mostly just a paid PR activity. The overwhelming majority of submissions, and I mean like 99%, are either not prior art in the sense of patent law or were already retrieved by the law firm on the case.