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Old 10-05-2003, 06:43 AM  
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Acacia isn't affected by EU's decision not to include software patents.

The Acacia patents are a process patent, there is no technology or software, or even a product.

It's funny when you read Acacia's Press Release statements and they talk about companies licensing their "technology".

Acacia's patent is particularly troubling for the fact it is a process patent... they describe the process of digitizing audio or video with compression, then storage on a server, with tranmission to a PC for playback.

No technology here at all, in fact, this process patent relies on technology companies to provide the pieces.

It is the end-user (the website) that "uses" the process by piecing everything together.

So if a webmaster buys their video content from some distributor (this covers the digitization and compression) and stores it on their webserver (this is the storage part), and then people are able to download and view the video (this is the transmission and playback), whether using a streaming video server, or just using HTTP/FTP for the downloading, then the website is "infringing" upon Acacia's patent claims.

Another thing that is very absurd, is that a company can INTERPRET and CLAIM anything they want that can be LOOSELY based on the actual patent.

They can then use the Justice System to intimate people into believing that what they SAY is what the patent SAYS, packaged in a legal FU document that lists licensing fee rates and C&D type language.

For those that defend themselves and believe the claims to be INVALID, and end up winning in court, are left with attorney bills that they can't pass on to the plantiff.

There is some very good potential prior art against Acacia's patents (and other patents from other companies).

Any company that is faced with their "information packets" should contact me since i provide my assistance with prior art for free.

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