[jraph]

I'm surprised a patent would be necessary for this. Wouldn't copyright already prevent them to do so?

[ericmsimons]

Technically speaking yes, but practically it turns out you often need multiple levers to actually get resolution when dealing with bad faith actors.

At some point I intend to write a blog post about what happened so other startups have a frame of reference on how to deal with this sort of thing. Truly wild stuff and can be very counterintuitive.