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Originally posted by charly
IPlus I think you will find there is such a thing as "discovery". What this does, is show Acacia what they are up against and now they have decided to go after the universities they are in for a tougher time.
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The other reason that was given to go ahead and list the prior art searches was that any prior art would have to be disclosed anyways to Acacia during discovert.
The original reason that the defense side doesn't want prior art published, is that the plantiff could see it and start amending their patent (which many do) to make the patent stronger.
They are allowed to add to their patent to make it more specific and address prior art... but if the foundation of the patent is found invalid, then the rest just falls down like dominoes....so that's why it was finally felt that releasing the infor was a good idea.
Fight the Patent!