"Although Acacia was an early investor in the company that developed the DMT patents, we didn't purchase majority control of the company until the end of 2001. Before licensing the patents, we spent an enormous amount of time and money doing due diligence on the patents. Three prominent law firms that specialize in intellectual property reviewed the patents. We hired professional search firms to perform prior art and literature searches in the U.S., Europe and Asia. We consulted with experts in the field including college professors and PhDs. We even hired patent buster groups who specialize in invalidating patents. All of the conclusions were that our DMT patents are valid and enforceable. "
http://ynotnews.ynotmasters.com/issu...403/page2.html
This interview with Aracia does sound bad, if they are not lieing and they have done all this research before buying up large chunks of companies and looked into prior art and all that. Doesn't sound great. Is this scare tactics or do we really believe they did all this research??