The buzz was building. It was March 2014, and Los Altos-based cloud business software company Box Inc. had just filed for its long-anticipated initial public offering. The company intended to raise up to $250 million.

A week later, one of Box’s competitors issued a press release: It had just told Box it planned to seek damages exceeding $268 million for patent infringement, not to mention preliminary and permanent injunctions.

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