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[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

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 <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

>
> 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
>
> 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
>

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