10-23-2003, 07:48 PM
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StraightBro
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Originally posted by latinasojourn
you got that right Brisk!
lots cheaper. There are real costs to filing just one lawsuit, let alone tens of thousands. Just the court costs, jury selection, discovery, outside counsel, travel expenses, meals, rental cars, airfare. Money that acacia has to front!
IT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, because everyone in the know knows that their patent will be invalidated.
acacia has banked their whole approach on the idea that adult webmasters are a bunch of kids fearful of the "legal" system, intimidated by lawyers.
Here's what is really going to happen.
IF acacia really prevails on the patent issue they will be in the big sugar.
But the big sugar will not come from webmasters or universities.
The big sugar will come from big media, microsoft, sony, manufacturers of DV equipment, etc.
Why?, because unless a deal will be made with the patent holder it will basically stop the sale of consumer DV equipment, it will stop most transmission of digital media over the internet, it will stifle the development of the international information superhighway---IF the patent holds.
Think now.
Who are the richest people in the world. And what will THEY do if their business enterprise is threatened by a small company of bottom-feeder lawyers in California?
if acacia prevails they will be absorbed (bought out) by big media---and that is what acacia is hoping for in their fantasy.
And, it is a fantasy.
Bill Gates could write a check for acacia during his morning coffeebreak, and then order another croissant.
Or he could instruct his lawyers to keep them tied up for the next 20 years in litigation, and then change the subject to the world series.
This is a man that beat the US government. This is a man that's thinking about curing aids in Africa. He's not losing a wink of sleep over acacia...and there's a reason he's not.
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Ok.. in all fairness Bill did just lose that case for about 1/2 a billion dollars regarding patent claims.
That said.. you have come up with some very accurate information. 
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