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Season 4  "The Patent Troll"  4x7

Aired 6 years ago - Jun 04, 2017

When Richard decides to stand up to a patent troll, his defiance ends up coming back to haunt him. Gilfoyle goes to desperate measures to battle Jian-Yang's new smart refrigerator. Jared embraces multiple identities in in his quest to reduce costs. Erlich tries to hang with the alpha males.

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Recap of Silicon Valley Season 4 Episode 7 (S04E07) - 1
Mansplaining is when a man will condescendingly explain
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Fine. You may start Monday.
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application control, and content filtering.
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and we just cracked the top 500 in the Hooli app store.
Recap of Silicon Valley Season 4 Episode 7 (S04E07) - 5
This warm. This warm.
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Unlike you, I now work for a living.
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Bream-Hall, huh?
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What red-blooded American male in the VC boys' club isn't?
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a hair, but it's always been there.
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Yeah. I'll... I'll send him a harshly worded cease-and-desist letter.
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Oh no, not at all. I am an attorney.
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You see this? This is a song I bought at a copyright auction.
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or give me a chunk of their song.
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♪ ♪
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"storage of media files on a network."
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top 500 list, right? Yeah.
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till it's time to work again. We could all take a page from his book.
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Aw, is somebody having a rough day?
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Wait. When he said, "a spot on the floor,"
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♪ ♪
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added to your shopping list. Come on.
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Like, um, Google named their first building Building 40,
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Was working with Gavin Belson, yeah.
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that I pay a $20,000 licensing fee,
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If we don't stop this guy, he's gonna just keep asking for more and more money
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Again, I... again... I don't really know
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so that he can't do this to anyone else ever again.
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♪ ♪
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I'm perfectly capable of figuring it out myself.
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Ned! I knew it was you.
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Ed Chambers. He got Pied Piper a great cloud storage rate from Azure,
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Stu Burke. R. Hendricks.
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So, Richard Hendricks, fuck you.
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have now licensed the patent,
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although he lost and was publicly beheaded.
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This is from high school.
Recap of Silicon Valley Season 4 Episode 7 (S04E07) - 45
Are we? Probably.
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Bought two houses, put Jeremy through four years of college.
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that they gave you a piece of "Walking on Sunshine" for nothing.
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All right. What do you want, you little prick?
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but I was able to brute-force the backdoor password
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and then I just started babbling on about tech specs

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Fine. You may start Monday.
#2
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application control, and content filtering.
#3
Recap of Silicon Valley Season 4 Episode 7 (S04E07) - 4
and we just cracked the top 500 in the Hooli app store.
#4
Recap of Silicon Valley Season 4 Episode 7 (S04E07) - 5
This warm. This warm.
#5
Recap of Silicon Valley Season 4 Episode 7 (S04E07) - 6
Unlike you, I now work for a living.
#6
Recap of Silicon Valley Season 4 Episode 7 (S04E07) - 7
Bream-Hall, huh?
#7
Recap of Silicon Valley Season 4 Episode 7 (S04E07) - 8
What red-blooded American male in the VC boys' club isn't?
#8
Recap of Silicon Valley Season 4 Episode 7 (S04E07) - 9
a hair, but it's always been there.
#9
Recap of Silicon Valley Season 4 Episode 7 (S04E07) - 10
Yeah. I'll... I'll send him a harshly worded cease-and-desist letter.
#10
Recap of Silicon Valley Season 4 Episode 7 (S04E07) - 11 #11 Recap of Silicon Valley Season 4 Episode 7 (S04E07) - 12
Oh no, not at all. I am an attorney.
#12
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You see this? This is a song I bought at a copyright auction.
#13
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or give me a chunk of their song.
#14
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♪ ♪
#15
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"storage of media files on a network."
#16
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top 500 list, right? Yeah.
#17
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till it's time to work again. We could all take a page from his book.
#21
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Aw, is somebody having a rough day?
#22
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Wait. When he said, "a spot on the floor,"
#23
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♪ ♪
#25
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added to your shopping list. Come on.
#27
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Like, um, Google named their first building Building 40,
#28
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Was working with Gavin Belson, yeah.
#30
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that I pay a $20,000 licensing fee,
#31
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If we don't stop this guy, he's gonna just keep asking for more and more money
#32
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Again, I... again... I don't really know
#33
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so that he can't do this to anyone else ever again.
#34
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♪ ♪
#35
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I'm perfectly capable of figuring it out myself.
#36
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Ned! I knew it was you.
#37
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Ed Chambers. He got Pied Piper a great cloud storage rate from Azure,
#38
Recap of Silicon Valley Season 4 Episode 7 (S04E07) - 39
Stu Burke. R. Hendricks.
#39
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So, Richard Hendricks, fuck you.
#40
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have now licensed the patent,
#41
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although he lost and was publicly beheaded.
#43
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This is from high school.
#44
Recap of Silicon Valley Season 4 Episode 7 (S04E07) - 45
Are we? Probably.
#45
Recap of Silicon Valley Season 4 Episode 7 (S04E07) - 46
Bought two houses, put Jeremy through four years of college.
#46
Recap of Silicon Valley Season 4 Episode 7 (S04E07) - 47
that they gave you a piece of "Walking on Sunshine" for nothing.
#47
Recap of Silicon Valley Season 4 Episode 7 (S04E07) - 48
All right. What do you want, you little prick?
#48
Recap of Silicon Valley Season 4 Episode 7 (S04E07) - 49
but I was able to brute-force the backdoor password
#49
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and then I just started babbling on about tech specs
#50