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Originally posted by FightThisPatent
New area to search... i haven't updated my web page yet:
Articles in popular magazines like Scientific American, computer mags, etc.,. that were pubished before 1990, that talk about the future coming soon.. watching videos on demand, digital music to be downloaded from computers, convergence of entertainment and computers, etc.
These articles are not really prior art, but serve a purpose of showing to the court that there was a spirit of innovation going on before 1990 that was describing all the stuff that Acacia's patent describes..along with solid prior art audio or video, this is what nails the coffin in.
So, search out for articles that talk about this, and post it or email it to me.
Fight the Patent!
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Excellent suggestion! But I disagree with your view that what might be found in the popular literature wouldn't be considered prior art.
For instance, if a (say) Byte magazine article concerned itself with the future of desk top publishing and just happened to have a paragraph that described how someday it would be possible to digitize and compress video, then store it in a central library for others to later download; that would essentially describe the Acacia "DMT patents". And it would be just as valid as if it had been published in an ACM publication that foresaw the same thing.
What matters is not an implementation of the invention, but a complete enough description of it published before the filing of patent(s). That follows naturally when you realize that the filers of the patent had not, themselves, implemented the process they describe.
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