Project Jengo for Sable — final winners!
2025-03-26
With Cloudflare’s victory against patent trolls Sable IP and Sable Networks in the books, it’s time to close out the case’s Project Jengo competition....
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Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public!
2024-10-02
We’re pleased to announce that the litigation against Sable has finally concluded on terms that we believe send a strong message to patent trolls everywhere — if you bring meritless patent claims against Cloudflare, we will fight back and we will win. ...
Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial
2024-02-12
Last Thursday, on a clear, sunny morning in Waco, Texas, a jury returned a verdict after less than two hours of deliberation. The jury found that Cloudflare did not infringe the patent asserted against Cloudflare by patent trolls Sable IP and Sable Networks. ...
Three new winners of Project Jengo, and more defeats for the patent troll
2023-01-17
Announcing three new winners of Project Jengo, and a major case update in our ongoing fight against the patent troll Sable Networks....
Arkansas engineer wins round 3 of Project Jengo, and Cloudflare continues to win at the Patent Office
2022-05-05
The latest winner of Cloudflare’s Project Jengo, along with some important case updates...
Former R&D Engineer Wins Round 2 of Project Jengo, and Cloudflare Wins at the Patent Office
2022-01-11
In April 2021, Cloudflare relaunched Project Jengo, Cloudflare’s prior art search contest. Here is the latest case update, along with our second round of winners....
The First Three Winners from Cloudflare’s Project Jengo 2 Share $20,000
2021-08-18
In April 2021, Cloudflare relaunched Project Jengo, Cloudflare’s prior art search contest. Here are the first round winners and an update on the case....
Project Jengo Redux: Cloudflare’s Prior Art Search Bounty Returns
2021-04-26
On March 15th, 2021, Cloudflare was sued by a patent troll called Sable Networks. Today, we are launching our efforts to fight back. ...
The Project Jengo Saga: How Cloudflare Stood up to a Patent Troll – and Won!
2019-11-04
Remember 2016? Pokemon Go was all the rage, we lost Prince, and there were surprising election results in both the UK and US. Back in 2016, Blackbird Technologies was notorious in the world of patent litigation....
Winning the Blackbird Battle
2019-02-14
We’re happy to report that on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion affirming a lower court decision dismissing the case brought by Blackbird Tech. This is the last step in the process, we’ve won....
Project Jengo Celebrates One Year Anniversary by Releasing Prior Art
2018-05-11
Today marks the one year anniversary of Project Jengo, a notorious patent troll. In homage to the typical anniversary cliché, we are taking this opportunity to reflect on the last year and confirm that we’re still going strong....
Bye Bye Blackbird
2018-02-13
As we have talked about repeatedly in this blog, we at Cloudflare are not fans of the behavior of patent trolls. They prey upon innovative companies using overly-broad patents in an attempt to bleed settlements out of their targets. ...
The Supreme Court Wanders into the Patent Troll Fight
2017-11-20
Next Monday, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Oil States Energy Services, LLC vs. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC, which is a case to determine whether the Inter Partes Review (IPR) administrative process at the US Patent and Trademark Office....
Project Jengo Strikes Its First Targets (and Looks for More)
2017-09-21
When Blackbird Tech sued us this year for patent infringement, we discovered quickly that the folks at Blackbird were engaged in what appeared to be the broad and unsubstantiated assertion of patents....
Project Jengo: Explaining Challenges to Patent Validity (and a looming threat)
2017-06-23
We’ve written a couple times about the problem of patent trolls, and what we are doing in response to the first case a troll filed against Cloudflare. We set a goal to find prior art on all 38 Blackbird Tech patents and applications. ...
Patent Troll Battle Update: Doubling Down on Project Jengo
2017-05-25
We knew the case against patent trolls was the right one, but we have been overwhelmed by the response to our blog posts on patent trolls and our program for finding prior art on the patents held by Blackbird Tech, which we’ve dubbed Project Jengo....
Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Troll
2017-05-11
On March 20th, Cloudflare received our first patent infringement claim: Blackbird Tech LLC v. Cloudflare, Inc. Today we’re filing our Answer to that claim in a federal court in Delaware. ...
Project Jengo: Cloudflare's Prior Art Search Bounty
2017-05-11
As readers of this blog likely know, especially if you read this post, Cloudflare has been sued by a dangerous new breed of patent troll, Blackbird Technologies, asserting a very old and very vague patent. ...