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This section of the article is particularly interesting. Looks like they've lost their previous court cases:
"DMT isn't the only technology by which Acacia has stepped toward what its critics call "profit by litigation." The company also acquired the V-Chip technology when it bought out SoundView Technologies. Almost immediately, Acacia launched similar patent-infringement claims involving the V-Chip, according to the Orange County Register. Those claims led to more than a dozen television manufacturers paying the one-time licensing fee, filling Acacia?s coffers with some $24.1 million in 2001 revenues, the Register said - a whopping jump from $100,000 in revenue the year before.
Other television manufacturers went to court - and Acacia lost. The Register said in December that the company is working an antitrust case claiming the winning manufacturers "colluded" to duck V-Chip licensing fees."
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