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Originally Posted by AlienQ
Didnt like Video secrets get a cease and decist for a while or something early in the case? I would think they could file for damages.
I know one guy that basically told acacia to fuck off and that if Acacia did force them to shut down he would file a suit on them for damages.
Acacia looked the other way after realising how fucked they would be if the video service would been disrupted.
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This is not the kind of case where that would happen. They say we infringe. We say we don't. A judge decides who is right based on a careful examination of mostly technical minutia - which is part of why patent attorneys make the big bucks because it is a highly specialized field of law.
Acacia's business model was essentially to try and grab as many licenses as possible from people that they figured would find it cheaper to just pay rather than fight. Unfortunately for them they picked an industry of iconaclastic mostly self made indie entrepeneurs that knew a heck of a lot more about the technology than they appeared to and had the resources and inclinations to prove it.