If you'll take a look here
http://www.acaciatechnologies.com/patents.htm you'll see that ACACIA actually does hold patents in most EU countries.
Now take a look here
http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipa...NAV=S#SECTION2 and read the following:
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article 52 of the Convention on patents states that software is not patentable
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wherever the use of a patented technique is needed for a significant purpose such as ensuring conversion of the conventions used in two different computer systems or networks so as to allow communication and exchange of data content between them, such use should not be considered to be a patent infringement
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Also notice the date of the resolution adopted by the European Parliament, ACACIA's patents pre-date this. Which means they paid good money for a piece of paper which they can wipe their asses with now, it's worthless. The resolution alone invalidates their patent.
From a discussion about this on another board
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also imagine that all the newsservices was writing articles that acacias eu patent has been invalidated... acacia's stock would drop like a rock, and our friends i the US (plus those that do business there) would have ammunition for the US political system and the press.. think about the money that is at stake for the US tax dept if the eu patent is invalidated - the biggest online industry would move to europe and leave all their business in the us behind... then there would be gigantic pressure on the us courts to throw the patent out.. leaving us all to do business as usual :cool:
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Food for thought?