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Originally posted by Carrie
IMPA has been around and will still be around through all of this. If they WIN in court, they win for ALL of us.
Who can't understand this????
All IMPA has to do is get a judge to rule that there was prior art preceeding Acacia's patent, and their patent, all of their papers, all of their lawsuits... MEAN NOTHING.
And IMPA is ALREADY involved in the legal system with Acacia, whereas none of you have actually been sued yet!
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operative word --YET. as you mentioned IMPA has been involved in this for 10 months now. companies are settling and new groups are now getting their letters. now they're going after the small to medium size players. so what ever work IMPA has already done isn't slowing acacia down any. if IMPA is the way to go on this, then they need to come on here ( or someplace else ) and show just was
HAS been done and
IS being done to counter this. what kind of time line are they anticipating. i really doubt if anyone in this recent "letter round" has the kind of cash needed to fight it or possibly pay ( or want to pay ) acacias $1500 fee just for a lousy link. these folks probably don't have deep pockets to pay for lawyers to fight a patent infringement case. and it sounds like from the tone of a lot of these letters these folks don't even have the "patent infringing technology" on their sites ( ya wanna throw that line from your old sig out right about now ?
) --they're just linking to `em. this also sounds like it might take a chunk out of some sponsor profits if a
BUNCH of people start having to pull sites down ...