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Originally posted by RiverRat19602003
I plan on supplying video to my customers via CD just like I did before bandwidth got cheap. Thankfully, I have that option while this patent crap gets hashed out.
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I hear ya on trying to work around the Acacia and other video patents, but another patent that lingers out there, is PanIP who has a patent for the graphical and textual presentation of information on a video screen for making a sale..transalation, selling stuff from a website.
Their patent is at:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...S=PN/5,576,951
This website
http://www.youmaybenext.com is trying to bring a group of defendants together to fight against this patent.
And judging by their message board, there is another company (
http://www.internetretailer.com/dailyNews.asp?id=7838) that has similar patent claims.
The more you read about these patent (abuse) cases, the more and more your head hurts...
There should be a Congressional study on how much money is lost by businesses every year on patent litigiation, especially the statistic where the patent was found to be invalid.
Fight the Patent!