[ih] Internet analyses (Was Re: IPv8...)

[Greg Skinner]

On Apr 28, 2026, at 1:24 PM, John R. Levine via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> 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, johnl at taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
> Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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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