Patent trolls are about as popular as ticks or tapeworms but, even by this standard, Personal Audio LLC is especially reviled. The East Texas-based shell company, which doesn’t produce anything but lawsuits, decided an old patent gave it a monopoly on “episodic content” and the right to sue every podcaster in the country.

On Monday, a legal filing confirmed that the troll met its match in Adam Carolla, a popular comedian who decided to wage a legal counter-attack against Personal Audience and stomp its patent into the ground with the help of a crowd-funded legal defense fund.

In a court filing in East Texas federal court, Carolla and the troll stated they would dismiss all claims against each other and, for now, to keep their mouth shut about what exactly happened:

“With the exception of the press release announcing the settlement that has been approved by the Court, Personal Audio, Lotzi [Carolla’s company] and the Partnership…