Akamai, Limelight bury hatchet (not in each other) to end patent spat Internet backbone facilitators Akamai Technologies and Limelight Networks have agreed to end their long-running patent battle, and instead forge a $54m licensing agreement. The deal will see Limelight pay the $54m to Akamai in a set of 12 installments beginning this month. In exchange, Akamai agreed to drop the $51m letter of …
Who is going to feed the children of those poor lawyers who will no longer making a mint of of patent disputes if this sort of activity should spread? How did the boards of these companies become clever enough to work out that licencing a patent (however dubious) can sometimes be cheaper than paying a firm of lawyers to spend a decade fighting an unwinnable case? For the costs involved in some of these cases, it must surely be cheaper to buy^H^H^H lobby a few politicians to get the patent system fixed.
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