Re: Internet analyses (Was Re: IPv8...)
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a free of paywalledification version of the *"statement made by Geoff Goodfellow about the changing nature of Silicon Valley tech businesses with regards to patents"* 2006 NYT paywalled article: *In Silicon Valley, a Man Without a Patent* https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/business/technology/in-silicon-valley-a-man-without-a-patent.html can be viewed at: https://archive.ph/7Zq6x as well as at: https://web.archive.org/web/20180214053323/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/business/technology/in-silicon-valley-a-man-without-a-patent.html g On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 2:17 PM Greg Skinner via Internet-history < [email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 28, 2026, at 1:24 PM, John R. Levine via Internet-history < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Being an expert witness, though: THAT pays good bucks. At the Apple v. > >> Samsung trial, one witness testified that he got $850 an hour, and he > put > >> in 900 hours on the case. > > > > I suspect many if not most of the people on this list have gotten on the > patent expert witness gravy train. I've been in probably a dozen cases on > the defense side against patents that were garbage, and one on the > plaintiff side against Microsoft for a patent that was pretty good. > > > > I should definitely increase my rate, though. > > > > Regards, > > John Levine, [email protected], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for > Dummies", > > Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. > https://jl.ly > > Reminds me of a statement made by Geoff Goodfellow about the changing > nature of Silicon Valley tech businesses with regards to patents. The full > article is behind a NYT wall, but some of it is available (at the time I am > writing) in Geoff Goodfellow Explained < > https://everything.explained.today/Geoff_Goodfellow/#google_vignette>. > > --gregbo > -- [email protected] living as The Truth is True -- Internet-history mailing list [email protected] https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history - Unsubscribe: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9b6ef0621638436ab0a9b23cb0668b0b?The%20list%20to%20be%20unsubscribed%20from=Internet-history