For those unfamiliar, Rothschild has a lot of patents and has a habit of going after various companies to try and get money out of them. They even tried to sue GNOME, as just one appropriate example here.
It sure took a while for this situation to be solved, with a first case being originally filed in 2022 from Display Technologies LLC (a patent holding company from Rothschild). The patent in question, US8856221B2, covers a “System and method for storing broadcast content in a cloud-based computing environment”. This caused Valve to file their own suit in 2023 which targeted Rothschild directly, various companies and even their lawyers.
For once, a patent troll got what was coming to them and the public verdict is an interesting one to read through. Not only has it been thrown out, but Valve have been awarded damages at what appears to be over $150,000. With the jury noting Rothschild violated the Washington Patent Troll Prevention and Consumer Protection Acts due to making the assertion of patent infringement in bad faith.
They didn’t just win. Valve buried them. Troll came swinging valve legal team parried and counterattacked.
Patent trolls are disgusting and do nothing but take away money that could’ve gone towards making games or platforms better but instead have to go to bogus legal disputes
